Senior Manager, Compliance (London)

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.

Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performances, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together.

In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.

As the Senior Manager Compliance-UK, you will oversee the UK and EU compliance obligations for our fast growing quant trading hedge fund. These obligations include but are not limited to overseeing all of our European trade and investor reporting obligations, managing all of our contact with the UK and EU regulators, conducting all required compliance training for our UK based employees, managing the UK and EU AML and privacy obligations for our global operation and assisting our US based compliance team with certain key obligations for the US trading operation that may occur during UK hours or involving UK or EU markets.

This role is crucial to Voleon’s UK and EU expansion strategy and ensures that the company will stay within the bounds of the regulatory requirements in these new jurisdictions.

This role is open to hybrid work in our London office.

Responsibilities:
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Oversee all UK and EU trade reporting and regulatory filing responsibilities for the hedge fund complex

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Draft and maintain appropriate policies and procedures for our UK and EU based teams that appropriately address all compliance training, AML and privacy requirements as well as all local regulatory requirements

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Conduct compliance trainings for the UK based team

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Assist the US based regulatory teams with critical responsibilities related to executing on the US regulatory program that may occur during UK trading hours

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Serve as a liasion to the UK an EU regulators on behalf of the Global CCO

Requirements:
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7-10 years of experience in a regulated trading environment. Examples include a hedge fund, a market maker, a retail brokerage firm or a bank trading operation.

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Demonstrated experience working in the UK an EU regulatory environment with strong knowledge of the basic regulatory framework as well as key rules related to asset management, AML, privacy and related concepts.

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Great written and spoken communication skills. Excellent English language proficiency is a requirement. Additional fluency in French or German is highly desirable.

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Familiarity with the operation of the stock, options, futures and bond markets

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Bachelor’s degree is required

• International experience in the EMEA region, previous work experience in the United States a plus

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Equal Opportunity Employer

The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.