Overview
We are looking for a dynamic and driven Business Analyst & Project Manager (PM/BA) based in Hong Kong to spearhead strategic business initiatives – most notably, the expansion of our Institutional Sales business in the region and establishment of the technology platform that underpins it. This role offers a unique opportunity to work across front-to-back-office functions, integrating third-party vendor systems with internal platforms.
Ideal candidates will bring a solid background in financial services – particularly in sales and trading business – with demonstrated experience in business analysis and project management on large-scale initiatives. Strong stakeholder engagement capabilities are essential, as the role involves close collaboration with global teams and requires excellent communication and coordination across multiple regions.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct in-depth analysis and documentation of current and future state processes and workflows, spanning front-to-back business operations and technical systems.
- Help drive the end-to-end delivery of complex, large-scale workstreams involving cross-functional teams in business and technology.
- Oversee vendor system implementation and integration, with a focus on large-scale implementations such as Order Management and Middle Office platforms.
- Collaborate closely with global technology and business teams in the development of high-level solution designs.
- Proactively identify and escalate risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Engage and collaborate with senior stakeholders across trading, operations, compliance, and technology, providing regular progress updates and facilitating issue resolution.
- Develop and maintain key project artifacts, status reports, and communication plans.
What you can expect from us
Real Impact: By integrating sophisticated coding techniques with innovative engineering ideas, we design and optimize systems that can process massive amounts of data while still ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software technologies make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better.
Collaboration: You will partner closely with our Infrastructure, Trading Desks, Project Management and Strategy Developer Teams to deliver and manage scalable and highly performant systems to support trading in the region and globally.
Growth: For many of our roles, we don’t expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna International Group. We’re looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow.
Benefits: Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits
What we’re looking for
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience in a techno-functional role as a Business Analyst, Project Manager, or in a hybrid BA/PM capacity.
- Experience analyzing and implementing end to end projects across front, middle and back-office functions of sales and trading business.
- Solid understanding of Order Management Systems (OMS) and their operation in sell-side workflows; agency and riskless principal.
- Solid grasp of the trade lifecycle and post-trade processes across multiple asset classes—including ETFs, equities, equity derivatives, and fixed income—along with associated settlement flows, such as bilateral DVP settlement vs. central clearing.
- Familiarity with key global markets and jurisdictions, along with an understanding of relevant regulatory frameworks.
- Strong experience working with vendors, deploying and integrating their products within enterprise environments.
- Highly proactive, with a strong ability to take initiative and lead projects to successful completion within a global environment, effectively navigating time zone differences and cultural diversity.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with experience in using collaborative tools such as Confluence, Jira etc.
- Experience in planning and executing comprehensive end-to-end testing strategies.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Excellent data analysis and system analysis capabilities.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or business-related discipline, or equivalent experience.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.
About Susquehanna
Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture, where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world, our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together.
What we do
We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialised, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.
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