Compliance Officer

The role

You will act as a subject matter expert for regulations applying to market infrastructure and investment and trading elements. You will support systematic, Delta 1, index, and macro strategies through engagement in trading operations and relationships.

What you will do

• Act as point of contact and manage key relationships with business line partners for Compliance.
• Provide compliance advice and training to investment personnel.
• Manage the flow of live trading queries and respond in a timely risk-based fashion.
• Review and provide input for approval of new investment instruments, products, strategies, technology, models, trading venues, and trading activities.
• Act as compliance SME for business change initiatives including the acquisition of new teams.
• Act as an escalation line for compliance program monitoring, testing, risk assessments, trade surveillance, and control evaluations.
• Act as first line for exchange and regulator queries related to market activity.
• Support and preparation of business coverage for formal examinations.
• Track and lead regulatory change initiatives connected to market structure and investment related regulatory change.
• Control room support including wall crosses, market soundings, MNPI and confidential information control.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5-7 years’ experience preferably in a multi-manager firm covering systematic trading or similar strategies.
• Practical knowledge and experience of market structures, products, quantitative methods, models, and data analysis techniques.
• Highly self-motivated, organized, and attentive to detail.
• Capable of managing a diverse workload and prioritizing tasks in a fast-paced corporate environment.
• Structured, methodical, and consistent in execution.
• Adaptable and open to change, a natural problem solver and lateral thinker.
• Calm and concise communicator, collaborative and able to engage well with staff of varying roles and seniority.
• Firm and team first in thinking.

Nice to have

• Familiarity of using various AI elements
• Some coding capability

Benefits

• Learning and educational offerings
• Opportunities to make an impact

About the company

Schonfeld is a global multi-manager hedge fund that strives to deliver industry-leading risk-adjusted returns for its investors. The firm leverages internal and external portfolio manager teams to invest across Quant, Tactical, Fundamental Equity and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income strategies.