Business Manager, Credit COO Office

The Role 

We are seeking a talented individual within our Credit COO team, driving business management, PM onboarding, business analytics, and cross-functional initiatives. This role combines strategic planning, operational execution, and data-driven insights to optimize performance, enhance efficiency, and support growth across the business. This role reports into the COO of Credit.

What you’ll do

Business Management

• Act as a partner to the Credit COO & Credit Business, translating business and infrastructure initiatives into detailed plans.
• Develop and own the plan for these growth initiatives and PM builds.
• Identify, recommend and drive actions to enhance the Core business.

PM Onboarding & Lifecycle Management

• Coordinate pre-launch testing, market data, and trading integrations for newly on-boarded PMs.
• Lead onboarding of new PM teams, e.g. market-data entitlements, trading-system connectivity, and counterparty onboarding.

Business & Performance Analytics

• Help Design dashboards on KPIs and business metrics.
• Lead cost/benefit cases for data, analytics and technology spend; track realized savings and ROI.

Project Management

• Lead strategic, cross functional projects across operations, treasury, compliance, and technology—owning end to end delivery and change management, and ensuring these projects are appropriately prioritized in the overall book of work.
• Run high-priority, cross-desk projects and own end-to-end delivery.
• Coordinate with Legal / Treasury to support trading strategies.

Vendor & Data Management

• Own the vendor lifecycle for trading and analytics platforms (contract negotiation, SLA governance, ongoing performance reviews).
• Stay abreast of emerging data/analytics vendors in macro and fixed income and evaluate fit for the platform.

What you’ll bring
What you need:

• 5-7 years in business management / COO or product related role on the Buy-Side (hedge fund, asset manager) or sell-side fixed income business.
• NY Based
• Good Fixed Income or Credit product knowledge.
• Fluency with trading technologies: order & execution-management systems, market-data feeds.
• Advanced analytical toolkit—Excel / VBA a must; Python, SQL or PowerBI strongly preferred.
• Exceptional project-management, prioritization, and stakeholder-influencing skills; comfortable presenting to senior management.
• Highly organized, proactive and able to manage multiple deliverables in a fast-moving market environment.
• Impeccable integrity and discretion when handling sensitive trading and financial information.

Who we are  
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.

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 $190,000.00. 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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