The Role

We are seeking a highly qualified Product Controller to work in our P&L Valuations team. This team falls under our Accounting department and collaborates closely with groups across the firm including Business Analytics, Fund Accounting, Portfolio Managers, and Operations. This role will be focused on daily and monthly P&L reporting, P&L reconciliations & valuations for OTC Derivatives and carry a specific focus on our emerging markets & delta one strategy.

What you’ll do 

The successful candidate will work closely with the Front Office trading system (Enfusion), the firm’s inhouse Geneva system and Fund Administrators to ensure the accuracy of the P&L. You will be overseeing pricing and P&L processes, oversee the setup of new products, and liaise closely with global departments across the firm to ensure accurate T+1 and Monthly P&L reporting. You will investigate pricing and valuation differences and explain these to stakeholders.

What you’ll bring
What you need:

• Experience in P&L Reporting/Reconciliation
• Strong knowledge of OTC derivatives including valuation and workflow
• Experience in analyzing and reporting on P&L including the Greeks
• Advanced Excel skills
• Strong ownership and a track record of delivering results
• Excellent communication skills and self-confidence to interact with stakeholders
• Ability to handle a high volume of data in a fast-paced environment with strong attention to detail
• Team player, proactive and willing to take on additional responsibility
• Ability to think outside the box; using ingenuity, creativity and inventiveness to approach and solve problems

We’d love if you had:

• Python, VBA or other coding knowledge
• OTC Derivatives knowledge
• Experience with Bloomberg
• Experience with Geneva
• Experience with P&L review, calculation, reporting &reconciliations

Our Culture

The firm’s ethos is embedded in our people. ‘Talent is our strategy’ is our mantra and drives how we approach all initiatives at the firm. We believe our success is because of our people, so putting our talent above all else is our top priority.

Schonfeld strives to create an environment where our people can thrive. We foster a teamwork-oriented, collaborative environment where ideas at any level are encouraged and shared. The development and advancement of our talent is honed through interactions with each other, learning & educational offerings, and through opportunities to make impactful contributions.

At Schonfeld, we strive to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout all of our employees with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the forefront of this mission. As a firm we are committed to creating a hiring process which is not only fair, but also welcoming and supportive. On a daily basis, our employees welcome diversity across identity, thought, people and views which serves as the foundation of our culture and success. You can learn more about our DEI initiatives here - Belonging @ Schonfeld.

Who we are

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a multi-manager platform that invests its capital with Internal and Partner portfolio managers, primarily on an exclusive or semi-exclusive basis, across four trading strategies; quantitative, fundamental equity, tactical trading and discretionary macro & fixed income. We have created a unique structure to provide global portfolio managers with autonomy, flexibility and support to best enable them to maximize the value of their businesses.

Over the last 30 years, Schonfeld has successfully capitalized on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets. We have developed and invested heavily in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics and continue to capitalize on new opportunities. In 2021 we launched our newest strategy, discretionary macro & fixed income as part of the continual growth of Schonfeld’s investible universe. Our portfolio exposure has expanded across the Americas, Europe and Asia as well as multiple asset classes and products.

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The Role

We are seeking an exceptionally talented individual to join our Cross-Asset Derivatives Risk Management team as a Risk Manager. This role will focus on risk management and portfolio oversight of the firm’s Equity Derivatives, Macro EM and Delta One strategies, which include Equity vol, Fixed Income, Index Rebalance & Special situations strategies amongst others.

What you’ll do 

As a Risk Manager, you will:

• Report to the Head of Cross-Asset Derivatives Risk and partner daily with Portfolio Managers, Strats, and developers to monitor portfolios and design solutions that reduce concentration and stress risks.
• Build, implement and validate models that power both risk management and the investment process.
• Partner with our Technology organisation to enhance data infrastructure, automate risk-limit monitoring and streamline raw-data ingestion.
• Work with Portfolio Managers, providing regular and ad-hoc analytics on strategy performance, risk profiles and tail-risk scenarios.
• Collaborate with strategy COO, fellow risk managers and tech teams to build and maintain the modelling, pricing and analytics toolkit that powers our multi-strategy platform.

What you’ll bring
What you need:

• A minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience in a PM-facing role
• Strong knowledge of equity derivatives and portfolio risk management
• Knowledge of quantitative finance including risk-neutral options pricing and cross-sectional factor models
• Experience analyzing and modeling large data sets
• Strong coding skills in one or more languages such as R, Python or C++
• Experience working with relational databases such as MySQL
• Strong communication skills

We’d love if you had:

• Direct experience in Macro, Delta one and Equity Derivatives Strategy

Who we are

Schonfeld is a global multi-manager hedge fund that strives to deliver industry-leading risk-adjusted returns for our investors. We leverage both internal and external portfolio manager teams around the world, seeking to capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets. We draw from decades of experience and a significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics to invest across four main strategies: Quant, Tactical, Fundamental Equity and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income.

Our Culture

At Schonfeld, we’ll invest in you. Attracting and retaining top talent is at the heart of what we do, because we believe that exceptional outcomes begin with exceptional people. We foster a culture where talent is empowered to continually learn, innovate and pursue ambitious goals. We are teamwork-oriented, collaborative and encourage ideas—at all levels—to be shared. As an organization committed to investing in our people, we provide learning and educational offerings and opportunities to make an impact. We encourage community through internal networks, external partnerships and service initiatives that promote inclusion and purpose beyond the firm’s walls.

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The Role

We are seeking a highly qualified and talented Quantitative Strategist to support the Volatility and Emerging-markets + delta-1 trading teams. You will work as part of a centralized Strategist team, working on vanilla and exotic product modelling, parameter marking and risk representation across geographies and markets.

What you’ll do 

As a Strategist, you will support portfolio managers trading derivatives in representing, rationalizing and understanding risk at a product and book level– ensuring that risk is accurate and economically consistent with product/payoff definitions. In addition, there will be focus on creating and understanding stressed market scenarios and developing modelling to predict product and book behavior in those environments. This will involve developing and validating parameter models to represent volatility surfaces, dividends and funding. You will support portfolio managers and traders maintaining and extending a centralized library for valuation and risk calculations.

You will be leading efforts on:

• Vol surface parameterization and modelling
• Vol product pricing, risk representation and rationalisation
• Vol PnL explanations & attribution
• Dividends modelling
• Scenario construction and book behaviour

What you’ll bring
What you need:

• Strong Python skills
• Experience with volatility trading strategies
• Strong background and intuition in financial mathematics, adopting a first-principles approach to understanding product behavior
• Experience working with quantitative risk teams, traders, and portfolio managers
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience with production environments
• Strong ownership experience and a track record of delivering results

Our Culture

The firm’s ethos is embedded in our people. ‘Talent is our strategy’ is our mantra and drives how we approach all initiatives at the firm. We believe our success is because of our people, so putting our talent above all else is our top priority.

Schonfeld strives to create an environment where our people can thrive. We foster a teamwork-oriented, collaborative environment where ideas at any level are encouraged and shared. The development and advancement of our talent is honed through interactions with each other, learning & educational offerings, and through opportunities to make impactful contributions.

At Schonfeld, we strive to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout all of our employees with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the forefront of this mission. As a firm we are committed to creating a hiring process which is not only fair, but also welcoming and supportive. On a daily basis, our employees welcome diversity across identity, thought, people and views which serves as the foundation of our culture and success. You can learn more about our DEI initiatives here - Belonging @ Schonfeld.

Who we are

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a multi-manager platform that invests its capital with Internal and Partner portfolio managers, primarily on an exclusive or semi-exclusive basis, across four trading strategies; quantitative, fundamental equity, tactical trading and discretionary macro & fixed income. We have created a unique structure to provide global portfolio managers with autonomy, flexibility and support to best enable them to maximize the value of their businesses.

Over the last 30 years, Schonfeld has successfully capitalized on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets. We have developed and invested heavily in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics and continue to capitalize on new opportunities. In 2021 we launched our newest strategy, discretionary macro & fixed income as part of the continual growth of Schonfeld’s investible universe. Our portfolio exposure has expanded across the Americas, Europe and Asia as well as multiple asset classes and products.

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The Role

We are seeking to hire an exceptional Compliance Officer to join our London office. This role will report into the Director of Compliance, based in Dubai, and hold several responsibilities for the EMEA region in the Global markets advisory space, and the Compliance department.

This position requires a focus on high levels of service and technical expertise. It requires a blend of regulatory, investment and markets compliance knowledge and expertise, coupled with outstanding collaboration qualities. This role necessitates a flexibility to also support the wider compliance department with activities outside of the listed responsibilities.

What you’ll do 

• Providing compliance advice and training to the EMEA investment personnel on their activities; including managing the flow of live trading queries and responding in a timely risk-based fashion.
• Lead Control Room activity in the EMEA region, including wall crosses, market soundings, MNPI and confidential information control, as well as related policy and procedure development.
• Engage in the review of, and input into the approval for new investment instruments, products, strategies, technology, models, trading venues, and trading activities in the EMEA region.
• Act as compliance SME as needed for relevant business change initiatives in the EMEA region.
• Act as first line response for exchange and regulator queries related to EMEA market activity.
• Support and preparation of relevant business coverage for formal examinations.
• Track and lead regulatory change initiatives connected to relevant market structure and investment related regulatory change in the EMEA region.
• Support the wider Global Markets Advisory team and Compliance department as needed.

What you’ll bring

What you need:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 7 years’ relevant experience.
• Highly self-motivated, organized, and attentive to detail.
• Strong technical knowledge covering market structure and related regulations in EMEA region.
• Structured, methodical and consistent in execution.
• Adaptable and open to change, a natural problem solver and lateral thinker.
• Comfortable with technology, systems and process orientated.
• Calm and concise communicator, collaborative and able to engage well with staff of varying roles and seniority.
• Firm and team first in thinking.

We’d love if you had:

• Experience in maintaining control room restrictions and approving various deals for multiple investment teams.
• Prior experience operating in the Compliance front office investment advisory capacity.
• Experience of adopting workflow management toolkits and new technologies.
• Project management skills, and experience working with Confluence, JIRA and various AI models.
• A strong Compliance network in London/Dubai.
• Familiarity with the multi-manager hedge fund model.

Our Culture

The firm’s ethos is embedded in our people. ‘Talent is our strategy’ is our mantra and drives how we approach all initiatives at the firm. We believe our success is because of our people, so putting our talent above all else is our top priority.

Schonfeld strives to create an environment where our people can thrive. We foster a teamwork-oriented, collaborative environment where ideas at any level are encouraged and shared. The development and advancement of our talent is honed through interactions with each other, learning & educational offerings, and through opportunities to make impactful contributions.

At Schonfeld, we strive to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout all of our employees with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the forefront of this mission. As a firm we are committed to creating a hiring process which is not only fair, but also welcoming and supportive. On a daily basis, our employees welcome diversity across identity, thought, people and views which serves as the foundation of our culture and success. You can learn more about our DEI initiatives here - Belonging @ Schonfeld.

Who we are

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a multi-manager platform that invests its capital with Internal and Partner portfolio managers, primarily on an exclusive or semi-exclusive basis, across four trading strategies; quantitative, fundamental equity, tactical trading and discretionary macro & fixed income. We have created a unique structure to provide global portfolio managers with autonomy, flexibility and support to best enable them to maximize the value of their businesses.

Over the last 30 years, Schonfeld has successfully capitalized on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets. We have developed and invested heavily in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics and continue to capitalize on new opportunities. In 2021 we launched our newest strategy, discretionary macro & fixed income as part of the continual growth of Schonfeld’s investible universe. Our portfolio exposure has expanded across the Americas, Europe and Asia as well as multiple asset classes and products.

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The Role 

We are seeking a highly qualified and talented Data Sourcing and Strategy Analyst to join our Data Sourcing team within the Enterprise Data group at Schonfeld. The Data Sourcing team is responsible for sourcing new datasets for portfolio management teams to use in the investment process, providing data-related subject matter expertise to teams and managing relationships with data providers. The group supports Schonfeld’s quantitative, fundamental, tactical, and macro portfolio managers in identifying and managing datasets across multiple asset classes and regions.                                                                                                 

What you’ll do 

The Data Sourcing and Strategy Analyst is responsible for critical functions including discovery of new data sets, understanding alpha opportunities within them, and working with portfolio management teams to drive data adoption.  

Responsibilities will include:

• Identification, evaluation & due diligence of new datasets based on their potential value for creating investment insights
• Delivery of research findings to investment teams, portfolio managers, and other internal clients
• Leverage existing vendor relationships and develop new relationships to ensure Schonfeld maintains a competitive edge in data sourcing
• Engage with sell-side to assist with data sourcing and management of alpha capture program

What you’ll bring

What you need:

• 2-4 years of data or capital markets experience
• Familiarity with different types of data and how they are used by investment professionals
• Experience engaging with clients and managing relationships, ideally with investment professionals
• A mind for efficiency and a desire to optimize processes
• Strong presentation and communication skills

We’d love if you had:

• Experience with fixed income, currencies, commodities or delta one products
• Hands-on working experience with varied and complex data sets and an interest in engaging with them via programming languages or AI tools
• Familiarity with both fundamental and systematic investment processes
• Self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset and a deep intellectual curiosity
• Process-oriented with ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Who we are  
Schonfeld is a global multi-manager hedge fund that strives to deliver industry-leading risk-adjusted returns for our investors. We leverage both internal and external portfolio manager teams around the world, seeking to capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets. We draw from decades of experience and a significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics to invest across four main strategies: Quant, Tactical, Fundamental Equity and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income.

Our Culture
At Schonfeld, we’ll invest in you. Attracting and retaining top talent is at the heart of what we do, because we believe that exceptional outcomes begin with exceptional people. We foster a culture where talent is empowered to continually learn, innovate and pursue ambitious goals. We are teamwork-oriented, collaborative and encourage ideas—at all levels—to be shared. As an organization committed to investing in our people, we provide learning and educational offerings and opportunities to make an impact. We encourage community through internal networks, external partnerships and service initiatives that promote inclusion and purpose beyond the firm’s walls.

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