Hydra X provides end-to-end marketplace solutions to exchanges, OTC venues, brokers, dealers, bullion and trading companies and is embarking on a significant growth plan to expand its business.
We are recruiting a Management Associate who is interested to be placed on an accelerated, dynamic career track that supports your professional development.
This is an opportunity to join an entrepreneurial team, focused on innovation and building outstanding products to support the company’s overall strategy and goals. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package.
Objectives of this Role
● Assist with and strategic business initiatives from development (market research, commercial analysis, preparing of proposals and decks) through successful execution (keeping track of and following up on) under the guidance of senior leadership and business heads
● Assist and communicate with executives in decision-making, program management, and initiative implementation
● Assist with scheduling, routine duties, and prioritisation of matters for the senior leadership
● Assist with integration of and communication between different business work streams, and keeping track of operational progress
Responsibilities
● Serve as liaison between staff, executives, senior leaders, and CEO
● Preparing for internal (investors, company, board) and external (potential investors, clients) meetings - drafting of presentations, research, proposals, and decks, sitting in on meetings, and handling follow-ups
● Evaluating and coordinating special projects - formulation, research, evaluation and implementation, including managing project prioritisation of a constantly changing portfolio of projects
● Work closely with CEO to ensure company top priorities are internalised by the company, followed up upon, and implemented; eventually becoming neutral internal advisor ensuring that company’s top priorities are executed
● Assist with the thinking through and setting of new company policies, anticipating problems
● Performing an array of administrative tasks from managing calendars, generating correspondence, maintaining hard copy and electronic files, planning and coordinating meetings, and scheduling facilities
● Build and develop relationships with all employees for increased efficiency and effective responsiveness into existing operations, and help to define new operational strategies, working with CEO and executives on special projects
● Serve as a subject matter expert, handling inquiries and developing action plans to address them, and assisting with the preparation and dissemination of communications
Skills and Qualifications
● A Bachelor’s degree with good honours in any discipline
● At least 2 years’ of working experience
● Project management: be organised and disciplined, show attention to detail, and following up doggedly to ensure the right results
● Dynamism and resourcefulness: possess open-mindedness and an ability to deal with a fluid and extremely wide-ranging set of priorities and projects; be resourceful enough to find acceptable solutions to problems regardless of subject matter
● Communication: be able to distil complicated concepts into simple, logical pieces, to refine a message and be able to communicate that to the right audience in the right way
● Common Sense: self-starter, be able to work from first principles and derive a logical approach to each problem
● Business Savvy: be able to quickly build an understanding of the marketplace, competitors, technology, and commercial landscape/approach
● No ego, no politics, no drama
● Have emotional intelligence, judgment and discretion