Senior Business Analyst

The Role
Corporate Strategy & Transformation at Schonfeld is responsible for delivering the firm’s highest priority strategic initiatives across our Investment, Operating, and Management Company Platforms. The team partners closely with the COO and CTO to define and execute on mission-critical initiatives to strengthen and support the firm’s continued growth. This role is based in our 590 Madison Avenue, New York City office.

What you’ll do
In this role as a Senior Business Analyst, you will serve as a cross-functional business lead for the planning, orchestration, and successful delivery of key initiatives across the organization. You will ensure transparency and alignment between business stakeholders, technology partners, and the firm’s senior leaders to frame business problems, and transform them into actionable transformation roadmaps. We connect the firm’s business strategy across the Front, Middle, and Back Office. Our ideal candidate will bring strong knowledge of the asset management and investment lifecycle, combined with the analytical, communication and problem-solving skills to define future-state business solutions and influence senior stakeholders. This is an exciting opportunity that offers valuable exposure to real-world problems at the intersection of finance and technology and expects you to maintain a forward-looking view to evolve the firm’s operating model over the next several years

What you’ll bring
What you need:

• Familiarity to the hedge fund operating model and the intersection between Front, Middle and Back-Office functions, with a strong understanding of the investment and trade lifecycle across one or more asset classes.
• Demonstrated program and business leadership experience with a track record of successfully driving large-scale initiatives and build consensus among senior cross-functional stakeholders with your excellent organizational, communication and project management skills.
• 3-5 years’ experience in strategic planning, business transformation, or management consulting.
• Strong analytical capabilities, familiarity working with large, complex datasets and data visualization tools to support quantitative analysis, decision making, and user adoption.
• Structured problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and Intellectual curiosity.

We’d love if you had:

• Direct exposure within a hedge fund operating environment or experience in a capital markets organization.
• Experience with business workflows involving order/execution/portfolio management, Risk & PnL, IBOR/ABOR, Treasury and PB/financing.
• Exposure to an OKR (Objective & Key Result) based planning environment.
• A commitment to continuous professional growth and team improvement.

Who we are
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a global multi-strategy, multi-manager investment platform that harnesses the transformative power of people to perform in all market environments. Our dynamic culture inspires better outcomes for our team, our investors, and our partners. We aim to consistently deliver risk-adjusted returns, with people driving performance.

We specialize in four core strategies: Quantitative Trading, Fundamental Equity, Tactical Trading, and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income. We capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets, drawing from a significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure, and risk analytics.

We invest through internal portfolio managers and external partner funds, pursuing alignment among investors, investment professionals, and the firm. Our footprint spans 7 countries and 19 offices.

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.

The base pay for this role is expected to be between $150,000.00 and $180,000.00. The expected base pay range is based on information at the time this post was generated. This role may also be eligible for other forms of compensation such as a performance bonus and a competitive benefits package. Actual compensation for the successful candidate will be determined based on a variety of factors such as skills, qualifications, and experience.

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