# Vice President – Depository - Solution & Transformation

**Company**: HKEX
**Location**: HK
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Vice President, Depository Payment & Transformation will lead the newly established Payment & Transformation team within Depository & Participant Services (DPS), driving strategic transformation, modernization, and business growth initiatives in support of HKEX's evolving post-trade landscape.

The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in strengthening leadership capacity, increasing accountability, and enhancing organizational agility while focusing on developing high-potential talent, accelerating AI and automation adoption, and developing future leaders.

**Job Responsibilities**

- Lead the Depository Payment & Transformation team, providing strategic direction, people leadership, and execution oversight for transformation, modernization, and business growth initiatives.

- Drive post-implementation optimization, including operational readiness, governance, testing, stakeholder coordination, and continuous process improvement.

- Assume end-to-end ownership of fee and payment-related processes, including payment operations, fee collection, exceptions handling, operational controls, and market implementation.

- Act as the primary liaison with Share Registrars, regulators, market participants, and external stakeholders, representing DPS on strategic, operational, and market infrastructure initiatives.

- Lead major business projects and strategic initiatives related to post-trade and cross-asset class developments, providing guidance and direction to align with the business and market dynamics.

- Drive overall AI, digitalization, and modernization agenda, including process automation, chatbot deployment, paperless initiatives, robotics, intelligent document processing, and AI-enabled operational solutions.

- Develop and maintain future-state operating models, governance frameworks, operational playbooks, procedures, and control standards to support sustainable business growth and regulatory compliance.

- Partner closely with business, technology, risk, compliance, and operations teams to identify transformation opportunities, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen organizational capability.

- Build and develop high-potential talent, strengthen succession planning, facilitate structured knowledge transfer, and mitigate key-person dependency risks.

- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, operational excellence, and enterprise leadership, ensuring business and operations remain resilient, scalable, and future-ready.

**Job Requirements**

- University degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Technology, or a related discipline.

- Minimum 12 years of relevant experience, including at least 8 years in a senior leadership or management role within financial services, market infrastructure, logistics and supply chain, vault management, or other highly regulated operational environments.

- Proven track record in leading large-scale transformation, modernization, operational excellence, or strategic change programs with measurable business outcomes.

- Strong leadership and people management capabilities with experience developing future leaders, building high-performing teams, and driving organizational change.

- Excellent project and stakeholder management skills with the ability to operate effectively across senior management, regulators, external partners, and cross-functional teams.

- Demonstrated ability to think strategically while delivering results, balancing long-term vision with disciplined execution and operational practicality.

- Strong commercial acumen and business judgment with experience assessing complex issues, managing risk, and developing scalable business solutions.

- Passion for innovation, technology, and continuous improvement with experience driving digital transformation, automation, AI adoption, or process redesign initiatives.

- Highly entrepreneurial, resilient, and outcome-oriented with the ability to operate effectively in dynamic, fast-paced, and evolving business environments.

- Excellent communication, presentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills with fluency in English and Chinese; proficiency in Putonghua is preferred.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic transformation
- modernization
- business growth
- leadership
- people management
- project management
- stakeholder management
- AI
- automation
- digital transformation

### Nice to have
- fluency in English and Chinese
- proficiency in Putonghua

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