VP, Equities Product Desk

Jefferies; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,700,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Jefferies seeks a Vice President on the Equity Product Desk in Hong Kong to provide real-time execution support, risk oversight, and independent order validation across APAC workflows. You will act as a dedicated secondary checker, ensuring client instructions and market requirements are met while strengthening 4-eye controls.

Key duties include reviewing order setups, routing, algo parameters, and market-access requirements; coordinating with clients, onboarding teams, custodians, brokers, and

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in equities trading, execution services, or a related front-office support function.
• Strong understanding of APAC equity market structure, exchange rules, and trader workflows.
• Solid knowledge of electronic execution, algorithmic trading, and smart order routing.
• Experience supporting institutional equity trading workflows, including OMS/EMS and electronic trading platforms.
• Demonstrated experience operating within a controlled environment with Maker-Checker frameworks.
• Ability to assess complex trading instructions and identify risks before order release.
• Experience managing incidents and escalations in fast-paced trading environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to drive process improvements.
• Proven ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to explain complex concepts.

Responsibilities

• Perform independent validation of high-risk, complex, time-critical orders prior to market release.
• Validate market-specific requirements and controls for client orders.
• Coordinate with clients, onboarding teams, brokers, custodians, and execution teams on market-access requirements.
• Monitor live orders and routing for exceptions and escalate resolutions.
• Coordinate capacity, throughput, and market-access constraints with desks and technology partners.
• Support pre-trade readiness and capacity planning with market intelligence and metrics.
• Provide data collection, reporting, and coordination support for significant trading events.
• Act as central point for known issues related to execution, tech, and broker services.
• Maintain governance records and audit trails for Maker-Checker processes.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to strengthen controls and execution processes.
• Contribute to operating procedures and onboarding standards for APAC execution services.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflow efficiency and transparency.

Skills

Equities trading

APAC market knowledge

Electronic trading

Algorithmic trading

Risk & controls

Stakeholder coordination

Communication skills

Tools

OMS/EMS platforms

Broker connectivity

Job description

Role Summary

Provide real-time execution support, risk oversight, and independent order validation across APAC execution workflows. Act as a dedicated secondary checker for orders, strengthening existing 4-eye controls through a formal Maker-Checker framework designed to reduce operational risk and ensure adherence to client instructions and market requirements.

Job Description

Vice President, Equity Product Desk

Role Summary

Provide real-time execution support, risk oversight, and independent order validation across APAC execution workflows. Act as a dedicated secondary checker for orders, strengthening existing 4-eye controls through a formal Maker-Checker framework designed to reduce operational risk and ensure adherence to client instructions and market requirements.

Review order setup, routing instructions, algorithm selection, custom algo parameters, benchmark settings, and market-specific requirements to ensure orders are correctly configured prior to release. Work closely with Execution, Algo Development, Connectivity, Technology, Operations, Compliance, and local market counterparts to validate client requirements and resolve any operational or technical exceptions.

Serve as a central coordination point for client onboarding and market access, liaising with clients, internal onboarding teams, custodians, and local brokers to facilitate account openings, investor identification requirements, trading permissions, and market-specific documentation. Support proactive management of execution risk by monitoring market access, broker capacity, throughput constraints, and trading event preparedness across APAC markets.

Maintain oversight of live trading activity, communicate known issues and incidents, and help drive continuous improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing execution quality, operational resilience, and control effectiveness. Ensure all orders are routed and executed in accordance with client mandates, local exchange requirements, internal policies, and applicable regulatory obligations.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform independent validation of high-risk, complex, sensitive, and time-critical orders prior to market release, ensuring the accuracy of order details, algo selection, routing instructions, execution parameters, benchmark settings, and bespoke client instructions.
• Validate market-specific requirements and controls, including investor ID requirements, exchange restrictions, short-selling eligibility, foreign ownership limits, auction participation rules, regulatory obligations, and client-specific trading restrictions.
• Act as the primary liaison between clients, internal onboarding teams, local brokers, custodians, and execution teams to coordinate client onboarding, account openings, investor registrations, trading permissions, and other market-access requirements.
• Monitor live orders and execution workflows for exceptions, system alerts, routing issues, rejects, market access failures, and unintended trading behaviour, escalating and coordinating resolution where required.
• Coordinate with Desk Heads, execution teams, local brokers, and technology partners to monitor capacity, throughput, and market-access constraints, particularly around index rebalances, benchmark events, auctions, portfolio transitions, and periods of elevated trading activity.
• Support pre-trade readiness assessments and capacity planning exercises by gathering market intelligence, broker feedback, operational dependencies, and execution metrics to help identify and mitigate potential execution risks.
• Provide data collection, reporting, and operational coordination support for significant trading events, including portfolio transitions, index rebalances, benchmark trades, large program orders, and market-wide events.
• Act as the central communication and coordination point for known issues relating to execution, technology, market structure, connectivity, and broker services, ensuring stakeholders remain informed regarding active incidents, risks, workarounds, expected impacts, and resolution progress.
• Maintain comprehensive control logs, oversight records, audit trails, and supporting evidence for the Maker-Checker framework, ensuring adherence to governance standards and internal control requirements.
• Partner with Execution, Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and COO teams to support incident reviews, root-cause analysis, corrective action tracking, and continuous improvement initiatives aimed at strengthening operational controls and execution processes.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of operating procedures, onboarding standards, risk controls, and governance frameworks to support the continued growth and scalability of APAC execution services.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflow efficiency, automation, transparency, and control effectiveness through collaboration with business stakeholders, technology teams, and external service providers.

Key Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in equities trading, execution services, sales trading support, market operations, electronic trading, prime brokerage, or a related front-office support function.
• Strong understanding of APAC equity market structure, exchange rules, trading workflows, order types, auctions, benchmark events, and market-specific regulatory requirements.
• Solid knowledge of electronic execution, algorithmic trading strategies, smart order routing, execution parameters, and broker connectivity frameworks.
• Experience supporting institutional equity trading workflows, including order management systems (OMS), execution management systems (EMS), and electronic trading platforms.
• Demonstrated experience operating within a controlled environment, including order oversight, operational risk management, trade controls, governance processes, and Maker-Checker frameworks.
• Ability to assess complex trading instructions and identify potential execution, operational, regulatory, or market access risks before order release.
• Experience managing incidents, exceptions, and escalations in a fast-paced trading environment, with the ability to remain composed under pressure and prioritize effectively.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate issues, perform root-cause analysis, and drive process improvements.
• Proven ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholder groups, including clients, traders, brokers, operations, technology, compliance, risk, and onboarding teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate complex execution and market-related concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

About Us

Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.

At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.

Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law.

We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws.

As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.