Operations Analyst / Ops Engineer — Event-Driven Hedge Fund

Darmax Global; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct reporting to senior principal

Visible impact across multi-vehicle平台

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Darmax Global in Hong Kong seeks a hands-on operations professional who can also build. The role reports directly to a senior principal in a lean team with a mandate to transform how the platform operates.

You will run daily workflows: trade booking, corporate actions, financing, and month-end close, while driving automation with the system provider and in-house developers. Cantonese/mandarin skills and licensure are advantageous.

Qualifications

• Three to ten years of buy-side operations or middle-office experience.
• Experience at a small fund covering multiple functions.
• Strong quantitative degree from a reputable university.

Responsibilities

• Run daily operational workflow: trade booking, corporate actions, swap shells, allocations, and month-end close.
• Cover financing: borrows, locates, margin and collateral.
• Identify manual processes, specify automation, and ship with internal/external developers.

Skills

Trade lifecycle

Portfolio operations

Financing

Python

VBA

AI tooling

Education

Mathematics/Statistics/CS/Financial Engineering

Tools

Enfusion

Eze

Bloomberg AIM

Charles River

Advent Geneva

Job description

An established Hong Kong event-driven hedge fund is hiring a hands-on operations person who can also build. Deliberately lean team, direct line to a senior principal, and a real mandate to change how the platform works.

The role

• Run the daily operational workflow - trade booking, corporate actions, swap shells, allocation across fund vehicles, month-end close.
• Cover the financing side: borrows, locates, margin and collateral.
• Find the manual processes, specify the automation, and ship it - working with the firm's system provider and in-house developers.
• Report directly to a senior principal. No layers, and no queue to get something done.
• The same strategy runs through several fund vehicles with different eligibility rules, so positions have to be expressed synthetically and allocated consistently across all of them. The operational problems here are genuinely non-trivial.

Requirements

• Three to ten years since graduation, with real buy-side operations or middle-office
• time - AVP-to-VP pricing, junior end in scope
• Time at a small fund, where you covered several functions because the team was small. Someone who owned one narrow process at a large shop is not the shape.
• Working knowledge of the trade lifecycle and portfolio operations, plus financing, margin, borrows and locates.
• Python and/or VBA, and fluency using AI tools to write and iterate on code. This is about knowing what to build, not about syntax.
• A strong quantitative degree - mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, computer science or financial engineering - from a good university.
• The appetite for a roughly ten-hour day as the norm rather than the exception, and for finding your own problems to fix without being asked.
• Advantages, not requirements: corporate actions depth event-driven, merger arbitrage or ECM exposure Enfusion, Eze, Bloomberg AIM, Charles River or Advent Geneva fund-administrator interface experience Cantonese or Mandarin SFC Type 9 licensable.

Why apply

• Competitive package
• A direct reporting line to a senior principal, at a firm small enough that what you build is visible immediately.
• A genuine automation remit. You are hired to improve the platform, not to keep it running.
• Unusual breadth for the level: trade booking, month-end, financing, systems, vendors and multi-vehicle fund structures in one seat.
• A firm on a real growth path, with the operating platform being built out as it scales.