About this role
Job Description: We are a global multi-strategy hedge fund. Within our APAC business we run all six of the firm's strategies — Credit, Fundamental Equities, Macro, Systematic, Commodities, and Equity Arbitrage. The COO Office sits between the portfolio managers and the firm's support functions (Operations, Trading, Risk, Technology, Product Control, Legal & Compliance, Treasury, Tax), making sure PM needs are translated into action and delivered without things falling through the cracks.
This is a hands-on, cross-functional role built around three pillars, and you will spend real time in all three rather than sitting in a back-office project seat:
1. PM engagement — you are a trusted point of contact for the desks, close to the investment teams and what they need.
2. Project & request coordination — you drive requests and projects end-to-end across every support function, keeping them moving and everyone accountable.
3. Broker relations & onboarding — you own the coordination of bringing on new brokers and counterparties. It is a high-visibility seat that gives broad exposure to how an institutional hedge fund actually runs — you will interact daily with senior people across the front, middle, and back office. It suits someone organised, proactive, and comfortable chasing things to completion.
What you'll do PM engagement • Act as a first point of contact for PMs raising requests, questions, or new ideas, and make sure each one is captured, understood, and routed to the right place. • Build trusted relationships with PMs and desk staff across the six strategies, learning each desk's instruments, workflows, and priorities. • Keep PMs informed on the status of their open requests so they always have visibility, rather than chasing for updates. Project & request coordination • Help manage the intake of incoming requests — logging, classifying, and tracking them through to delivery, and coordinating deliverables and milestones across functions. • Coordinate cross-functional requests (e.g. new instrument or market access, data and systems builds, tooling) across Investment, Operations, Trading, Risk, Technology, Product Control, Legal & Compliance, Treasury, and Tax — partnering with each team to capture requirements and helping translate them into process or system solutions. • Help maintain accurate records of stakeholders, approvals, conditions, and timelines for each request, keeping each one moving and unblocked. • Conduct data and workflow analysis to spot automation or efficiency opportunities, and help improve the team's request-tracking process and tooling, including stakeholder maps and turnaround targets. • Prepare project documentation, dashboards, and management reporting, and support governance forums (e.g. new-product / new-activity reviews and regular operating syncs). • Support broader strategic initiatives that help the multi-strategy platform scale with the right controls in place.
Broker relations & onboarding • Coordinate the onboarding of new brokers and counterparties end-to-end. • Maintain the broker/counterparty inventory and supporting reference data, and serve as a coordination point for broker queries and reviews.
What we're looking for Required • 0–3 years of experience — recent graduates welcome. Internships or a first role in financial services (buy-side, sell-side, Big 4, or a financial-services consultancy) are a plus but not essential. • Strong organisational skills and genuine attention to detail; able to track many moving parts without dropping any. • Clear, confident written and verbal communication, and the maturity to interact with senior stakeholders. • A proactive, entrepreneurial mindset with strong initiative — comfortable taking ownership, chasing, following up, and pushing things to completion without being told. • Strong with Excel and PowerPoint; quick to learn new systems and tools. • Eligible to work in Hong Kong or Singapore. Nice to have • Familiarity with financial instruments across asset classes (equities, credit, rates, FX, commodities, derivatives). • Awareness of trade lifecycle, broker/counterparty onboarding, or hedge-fund operations. • Ability to code (e.g. Python, SQL, VBA) is a plus, though not required. • A strong academic record in any discipline — we care more about analytical ability and critical thinking than the specific subject, though computer science, business analytics, mathematics, statistics, finance, and economics are all a natural fit.
What you'll get • Broad, direct exposure to every function of an institutional multi-strategy hedge fund, and a network across the APAC business from day one. • Mentorship and close working relationships across the COO Office and the wider APAC business. • A role with real ownership and visible impact, and a clear path to grow as you take on more responsibility