Senior Operations Risk and Controls Associate

The Role

We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented professional to join our Operations Risk & Controls team. This group is responsible for all account onboardings across the firm, setting up the static data that drives trade bookings, and the overall documentation for all high-risk areas in Operations. You will collaborate with many peers from different departments, such as: Risk, Portfolio Financing, Middle Office, Fund Accounting and Back Office. Great organizational and interpersonal skills as well as mental resilience are required to succeed in this role. The Operations Risk & Controls team takes pride in suggesting policies for optimal efficiency across business lines. This role will sit in our newly formed HQ2 location in Miami, FL.                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

What you’ll do

The individual will be responsible for successful, operational data excellence and onboarding delivery, while working in a fast-growing operations team in Miami, FL. You will be responsible for day-to-day deliverables; help drive process improvements and project initiatives.

• Self-starter and independent worker with strong sense of ownership, capable of delivering, driving, and shaping results and to meet deadlines under pressure
• Develop relationships with key external service providers, ensuring oversight of outsourced processes and optimizing working relationships
• Assist in building and innovating our central Reference Data repository that services the firm
• Responsible for all new investment onboarding requests such as but not limited to new brokers, strategy’s, commission rules, counterparties, etc.
• Oversee static data mappings across various systems on new brokers, accounts, and counterparties
• Coordinate with various teams globally: Legal / KYC / Middle Office / Investment to gather information and enhance existing workflows.
• Improve our current onboarding process by creating tactical enhancements that lead to strategic solutions and automated workflows
• In efforts of operational oversight and documentation: coordinate with various teams to help author a best practices procedures manual, implement and monitor
• Help suggest areas of improvement that will benefit all stakeholders across organizational processes as a center for controls and excellence
• Verify information in various systems to ensure static data integrity for the entire firm
• Illustrations of high-risk workflows for knowledge sharing across all departments
• Build metrics across all sub-departments within Operations to track relevant KPI’s and analytics
• Liaise with parties internally & externally to monitor status and meeting deliverables

What you’ll bring

What you need:

• Exceptional orientation and passion for details and data normalization
• Organizational skills, with a strong appreciation for data cataloging when managing projects
• Time management skills with relevance to project deadlines and prioritization of projects
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Interpersonal skills to adhere to the firm’s ethos and enhance team-to-team communication
• Curiosity for learning and understanding how things work and systems interact.
• Excellent Excel skills: comfortable writing macros / VBA
• Minimum of 5 years of experience working in a related financial services support role
• Diligent working style with attention to detail and high standards for quality
• Committed, able to work under pressure and great team player

We’d love if you had:

• Any experience with productivity tools (Confluence, JIRA, Visio, or MIRO)
• Any experience with the account onboarding processes from either the buy side or a bulge bracket firm
• Any experience with legal documentation relating to trading execution agreements and/or FIA-Tech Portal.
• Experience with SQL, or other technical skills

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 & educatio