Project Manager

We are seeking an experienced and highly autonomous Project Manager / Business Analyst (PM/BA) to lead the expansion of our commodities trading business in China, across both onshore and offshore structures. The role requires a proven track record setting up securities or commodities trading operations in China, from entity setup and licensing/registrations through to technology, compliance, and operational readiness.

The successful candidate will bridge business and technology functions, ensuring the seamless rollout and integration of trading, risk management, and post-trade infrastructure tailored to China’s market and regulatory environment. This is a strategic and hands-on role suited to a self-starter capable of navigating complex stakeholder landscapes and local market dynamics.

In this role, you will 

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of initiatives to establish and expand commodities trading capabilities in China (onshore and offshore), covering regulatory, operational, and technology workstreams.
• Manage project delivery across entity setup, licensing/registrations, infrastructure build-out, and go-live readiness.
• Conduct detailed business analysis across front-, middle-, and back-office workflows for commodities and/or securities trading (e.g., trade capture, risk, confirmations, settlement, reporting).
• Oversee the selection, implementation, and integration of trading, risk, and post-trade systems (e.g., OMS/EMS, ETRM/CTRM, risk, middle-office platforms).
• Collaborate closely with China-based regulators, exchanges/clearing venues, banks/brokers, and third-party vendors.
• Ensure adherence to relevant Chinese regulatory requirements, including reporting and record-keeping obligations.
• Coordinate across global business, operations, legal, risk, and technology teams to align the China build with global standards and controls.
• Identify and proactively manage project risks, dependencies, and deliverables to ensure timely execution.
• Prepare key documentation including business cases, project plans, governance updates, process maps, and stakeholder communications.

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. 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

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in a hybrid Project Manager / Business Analyst role within financial markets.
• Proven experience setting up or scaling securities and/or commodities businesses in China, spanning both onshore and offshore structures (e.g., entity setup, licensing/registrations, and operating model build).
• Strong understanding of China’s market infrastructure (venues, clearing and settlement), and local regulatory frameworks relevant to securities and commodities activities.
• Demonstrated experience delivering systems integration and vendor implementations across trading, risk, and post-trade domains.
• Highly self-driven and capable of operating independently in a new-market build and change environment.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and cross-cultural communication skills, both in English and Mandarin.
• Proficiency with project and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.

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 powered by scientific rigor, curiosity, and innovation. Our culture is intellectually driven and highly collaborative, bringing together researchers, engineers, and traders to design and deploy impactful strategies in our systematic trading environment. To meet the unique challenges of global markets, Susquehanna applies machine learning and advanced quantitative research to vast datasets in order to uncover actionable insights and build effective strategies. By uniting deep market expertise with cutting-edge technology, we excel in solving complex problems and pushing boundaries 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.

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to recruiting@sig.com. Any resume or referral submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will not be eligible for an agency fee.

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