Job Description

About Us:
Huatai International Financial Holdings Company Limited (“Huatai International” or “the Company”), is the only overseas wholly-owned or controlled subsidiary of Huatai Securities. Huatai International is the Huatai Group’s international arm which plays as a crucial role in the group's internationalization strategy by:
a) not only providing offshore capital market services (and a global business platform) but also provides onshore clients with valuable cross-border capital market services (aligned with the mainland China government’s policies and commercial intentions);
b) actively making use of Huatai Securities’ leading position, distribution network and customer base in mainland China;
c) integrating on a global basis across many jurisdictions and regions, a successful and fully integrated international financial platform with innovative financial services solutions.

Huatai International operates as a holding company for consolidating all of the group’s cross-border businesses and companies under one umbrella, offering a truly unified and international business platform. In recognition of such international strength, the renowned international rating agency Standard and Poor’s has assigned Huatai International a “BBB+” rating (for long term) and “A-2” (for short-term).

As part of the Firm’s strategic initiative to rapidly grow of ours international businesses, the firm is seeking a senior Project Manager with team lead responsibilities in our regional technology team based in Hong Kong. The technology team is responsible for all aspects from change-the-bank to run-the-bank spanning across all the business lines (including equities, derivatives, FICC, Wealth, AM, IBD, etc) and the corresponding front-to-back functions and the innovative technology infrastructure such as cloud, AI and Web3. This role is responsible in managing the critical projects, maintaining stability of the production platforms, and also ensuring the safety & compliant of the IT risks & controls.

• Project manage critical business or infrastructure initiatives from requirements, proposed solution due-diligence, solution design & architecture, budget & procurement, implementation issues/risks mitigation, all the way to testing/golive/support coordination, etc.
• Lead and coordinate production issues resolution; Follow-through on root cause analysis, closure of remedial actions with stakeholders, reporting to operational risk, compliance and/or regulators, if needed.
• Work with stakeholders & team members to ensure the IT systems, processes and procedures are compliant to regulations and industrial best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Information System, Computer Science or Engineering related disciplines; post graduate will be a plus.
• 12-20 years of extensive experiences gained in international brokerage firms covering in at least two of the following domain areas: front-office sales & trading, middle/back office post-trade processing, infrastructure in either data centers/network, and took the roles either in development, implementation and/or production management. A plus with business product knowledge in any of the equities, FICC in cash/derivatives/structured products, or wealth management on the international markets.
• A plus with people supervision & management experience of a small-to-medium team.
• Extensive industrial knowledge in either (i) the trade flow & processing of China’s, Hong Kong’s and/or Singapore’s capital market & products, such as equities, FICC in cash, derivatives & structured products; or (ii) technology infrastructure setup in data centers (including cloud, exchange colocation), network (with low-latency), cyber-security, end-users services, etc.
• Good knowledge of the rules & regulations related to HK SFC, SG MAS and/or other Asian markets; good understanding of the common practices with well-known Financial Market Infrastructures such as exchanges, clearing houses, market data providers, etc.
• Project management skills in medium-to-large scale initiatives that cover the charter, scope, resources, budget, solution selection, timeline, and risk/issues mitigation across departments and functional teams.
• Strong analytical, quick learning, problem-solving & process improvement skills on vaguely defined objectives/problems; able to multi-tasking under pressure and changing priorities.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skill to the senior stakeholders and management, with good command in both Chinese and English; conversational in Mandarin is a must.
• Self-motivated, result-oriented and a good team players to build trust & rapport with stakeholders.