Compliance Officer

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors. Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles. Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture. Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here.

Our Culture

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know. Explore more information about Bridgewater’s culture on our website here.

About the Legal & Regulatory Group:

The Legal & Regulatory Group is responsible for partnering with Bridgewater businesses to protect the legal and regulatory interests of the firm and its clients and managing legal and regulatory risk to ensure that employees act in accordance with the highest legal and ethical standards. Our group maintains in-house expertise in many areas, including corporate, investment management, private funds, intellectual property, employment and commercial law and compliance. The team works closely with a broad range of departments within the firm and manages relationships with external counsel and regulatory consultants.

About Your Role

The Compliance Officer will be expected to contribute on day one. Together with other members of the team, the Compliance Officer will be responsible for ensuring compliance with Bridgewater’s regulatory obligations. While expected to contribute across all areas of the compliance program, core responsibilities will involve serving as the primary advisory and operational partner to at least two practice areas within Bridgewater’s Compliance Team, which include: Investments, Client Service and Marketing, Internal Risk and Regulatory Reporting, and Ethics. Specific assignment will depend on the Compliance Team’s needs as well as the Compliance Officer’s aptitude and interest. In addition, the Compliance Officer will also be expected to work with the Chief Compliance Officer (“CCO”), Deputy CCO, and other senior leaders on strategic initiatives and essential workstreams. For a high achiever, this strategic work is expected to increase over time and ultimately the scope of the role will be limited only by the abilities and dedication of the person inhabiting it.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Overseeing vendors with both substantive and operation roles to ensure quality outcomes
• Upholding and creating quality standards for external legal vendors
• Navigating and advising on medium level compliance, client service, and investment complexities
• Advising on compliance issues on trading in market, portfolio, and other client service facing roles
• Directly working with and supporting our Deputy-Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Compliance officer
• Integrated and involved work with data driven projects that cover but are not limited to:
  • Primary research on markets and engaging in the outside world and turning research into portfolios
  • Trading out in the marketplace and testing trading activity to make sure it is complaint

Minimum Requirements:

• 2-4 years at a law firm and/or in-house legal or compliance team with a focus on financial services regulation
• High intellectual horsepower, agility, logical reasoning, practicality and curiosity
• Comfort operating proactively and independently while simultaneously not being afraid to ask for help when required
• Strong project management and oversight capabilities; will