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The role sits within Market Controls & Reporting and combines day-to-day operation of the trade surveillance programme with the oversight and design of the same programme. This role involves safeguarding the firm against reputational and financial risks by conducting comprehensive surveillance across various markets and financial products. The ideal candidate will be highly self-motivated, organized, and attentive to detail. You should be capable of managing a diverse workload and prioritizing tasks in a fast-paced, ever-evolving corporate environment.\nWhat you’ll do \nOperate the firm’s trade surveillance programme end to end: triage and disposition alerts across asset classes, escalate potential market abuse, and maintain a clear and defensible record of the rationale for each outcome.\nMonitor, analyze, and report on compliance issues related to trade surveillance, focusing on market manipulation and insider trading.\nImprove the programme as well as run it: review scenario coverage, calibrate thresholds and parameters, reduce false positives, and identify and close coverage gaps.\nAct as the compliance interface to the trading and surveillance systems. Understand how surveillance data is sourced and how alerts are generated, and specify system changes with sufficient precision.\nAssist the Global Markets Centre of Excellence and Compliance more generally, including testing of surveillance and control changes, implementing AI-assisted workflows to enhance Compliance processes, and applying structured problem-solving to diagnose root causes and resolve issues as they arise. Monitor position disclosure thresholds, position alerts and position limits; support accurate and timely filings and escalate potential breaches.\nManage stakeholders including Global Markets Compliance, Compliance Tech, Trading and Investment, Operations, Legal to integrate compliance requirements related to trading into business processes.\nAssist in preparing responses to regulatory agencies and exchanges regarding trading activity and other raised issues, and respond to issuer disclosure requests.\nOperate and review post-trade controls, handling exceptions and improving control design over time.\nReview surveillance and control exceptions with regional teams, business personnel, and middle office.\nPrepare MI reporting and ensure accurate & timely reporting to all stakeholders.\nIdentify, facilitate, and implement process improvements, including the automation of manual monitoring and reporting steps across large, multi-system datasets.\nStay updated on relevant laws, regulations, and industry best practices across market abuse, market transparency and position reporting.\nDraft, review, and implement compliance policies.\n\nWhat you’ll bring\n What you need:\nBachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or related field\n3+ years of trade surveillance experience covering market abuse typologies across at multiple asset classes, preferably at a multi-manager platform, hedge fund or quantitative asset manager\nStrong knowledge of global financial regulations and compliance requirements\nUnderstanding of various financial products including Equities, Equity Derivatives and Fixed Income\nDemonstrable ownership of work beyond alert triage: for example a threshold calibration exercise, a coverage review, or a surveillance change you specified and saw delivered\nProficiency with an established trade surveillance platform, and the ability to explain how surveillance data reaches an alert and how alerts are configured.\nStrong knowledge of Excel and ability to manage large datasets.\nMeticulous attention to detail, particularly regarding the preparation of written materials\nStrong interpersonal skills as well as strong verbal and written communication skills\nAbility to work well independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environments.\nWillingness to work flexible hours to cover global markets.\nStrong problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose issues and propose practical, workable fixes independently.\nWe’d love if you had:\nQuery or scripting capability (for example SQL or Python) applied to monitoring or reporting\nFamiliarity with AI tools and their application in a business setting, and comfort using AI to operate at greater scale and precision\nProfessional certifications such as CAMS, CFE, or ACAMS.\nExperience applying statistics in a business environment.\nExperience in a global financial institution or regulatory body.\nKnowledge of data analytics and visualization tools.\nWho we are \n 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.\nOur Culture \n 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. 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