Application Support Manager – Asset Management – Hong Kong recruitment

Our client is a global asset management organization that is updating and upgrading their operations and technology in Hong Kong in line with an Asia Pac expansion of the business.

Responsibilities of the role:

- Reporting directly to the International Head of Application Support based in Europe.

- Working as part of the business team in close collaboration with portfolio management, research analysts and macro analysts.

- Managing the asset management/ hedge fund application support business regionally from a technology perspective, including setting strategy and managing the day to day operations.

- Directly managing the application support team of 2-3 in Asia as the application support manager.

- To be responsible for delivery of technology solutions for the business, understanding specific needs and requirements for the buy-side industry in Hong Kong.

- Management of small to medium projects for the business such as application implementation, spreadsheet automation and data projects.

- Being part of the BAU follow the sun application support team responsible for batch cycles, resolving issues and SQL queries.

- Being the vision for further expansion in Asia and being involved with strategic planning.

Requirements of the role:

- 10+ years technology background with an excellent understanding of the buy-side industry in asset management or hedge fund.

- Must have previously worked for an asset management or hedge fund organization responsible for supporting their applications.

- Proven managerial experience of small application support teams.

- A broad range of functional role experience covering small to medium project management, business analysis and production support.

- Career stability with proven background of committing to long term business initiatives.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Able to work independently and be credible as the single point of contact for application technology in Asia.

- Technical background with automation, VBA/ Excel, SQL queries and Oracle. Any Unix or scripting experience would be advantageous.

- This opportunity would be a very good match for an Application Support Manager/ IT Manager with strong business knowledge in asset management/ hedge fund to join a global organization and direct their regional technology expansion.

- CFA qualifications would be considered a plus.

Please send your resume in Word format to Dave Hilling at dhilling@ikasinternational.com and put Application Support Manager Asia - Asset Management in the subject header.

Ikas International Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.