Global Financial Operations Platform Director
Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR · Singapore · Hong Kong · Posted Oct 1, 2026
At a glance
- Location
- Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR · Singapore · Hong Kong
About the role
- We are building a scalable financial operations platform to support the accurate movement, recording, reconciliation and reporting of fiat and digital assets.
- The Head of Financial Operations Platform will define and deliver the architecture that connects our trading, payment, banking, custody, blockchain, wallet and finance systems.
- This is a senior, hands-on platform leadership role responsible for establishing trusted books and records, automating settlement and reconciliation, and creating effective exception workflows.
Responsibilities
- Product strategy and multi-year roadmap for the financial operations platform.
- Establish the target vision, operating principles and roadmap for ledger, settlement, reconciliation and client asset controls.
- Map end-to-end funds and asset flows across deposits, withdrawals, trades, fees, transfers, financing, staking and other relevant products.
- Partner with Architecture and Engineering to define scalable services, APIs, event schemas, data contracts, system boundaries and resilience requirements.
- Define requirements for double-entry ledgering, journals, balances, positions and transaction traceability.
- Design workflows for fiat and digital asset settlement, including cut-offs, confirmations, status management, retries and failure handling.
- Build automated multi-way reconciliation across trading engines, payment systems, banks, custodians, wallets, blockchain records, subledgers and ERP systems.
- Build operator interfaces that support investigation and resolution without routine dependence on engineering queries or spreadsheets.
- Coordinate operational readiness across Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Treasury, Custody, Risk and Compliance.
- Lead data migration, backfilling and parallel-run validation before replacing existing controls or processes.
Requirements
- Eight or more years in fintech, financial services, digital assets, brokerage, custody, payments or capital-markets technology.
- Five or more years of product-management, platform leadership, technical program leadership or comparable engineering experience.
- Demonstrated delivery of a ledger, reconciliation platform, settlement system, payments infrastructure, brokerage books-and-records platform or digital asset back office.
- Strong understanding of transaction lifecycles, balances, positions, journal entries, reconciliation and financial controls.
- Technical fluency with APIs, event-driven systems, data schemas, batch and streaming pipelines, integrations, idempotency and failure handling.
- Track record of delivering mission-critical systems in regulated or control-intensive environments.
- Strong written communication, structured problem-solving and senior stakeholder-management skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with both fiat and digital asset transaction flows.
- Knowledge of blockchain transactions, wallets, custodians and on-chain settlement.
- Experience integrating with ERP systems such as Oracle, SAP, NetSuite or Microsoft Dynamics.
- Familiarity with client asset segregation, safeguarding, books and records or comparable regulatory requirements.
- Experience with high-volume, continuously operating financial platforms.
- Knowledge of double-entry accounting and financial-close processes.
- Experience replacing manual reconciliation with automated platform capabilities.
- Experience assessing or implementing platforms such as Crypto or comparable ledger, reconciliation and digital asset accounting solutions.
Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package
- L&D programs and Education subsidy for employees' growth and development
- Various team building programs and company events
- Wellness and meal allowances
- Comprehensive healthcare schemes for employees and dependants
Skills
- SQL
- APIs
- ERP
- Oracle
- SAP
- NetSuite
- Microsoft Dynamics