Director of COO Office, Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income
The Role
We are seeking a proactive leader to partner with Rates & FX PMs across Asia-Pacific, 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 Asia Macro & Fixed Income platform. This person will act as the day-to-day business manager for Schonfeld's Macro & Fixed Income platform in Asia, covering Singapore, Hong Kong, and any future APAC locations. This role reports into the COO of DMFI.
What You'll Do
Business Management
- Act as a partner to Rates & FX PMs across Asia-Pacific, translating investment goals into resourcing, capital, and infrastructure plans.
- Develop and own the business plans for various strategic growth initiatives and PM builds in the region.
- Continuously analyze desk P&L, risk, liquidity, funding and balance-sheet usage; recommend actions to enhance returns and capital efficiency.
- Identify new product or market opportunities specific to Asia (e.g., CNH/CNY markets, Asian NDF flows, local government bond markets, SGD/HKD/KRW/INR derivatives) and drive approval / launch.
- Leverage AI and automation tools to streamline reporting, surface actionable insights, and enhance decision-making speed.
- Navigate Asia-specific regulatory environments and ensure business operations remain compliant.
PM Onboarding & Lifecycle Management
- Lead onboarding of new Macro/Fixed Income PM teams in Asia: capital allocation sizing, risk limits, market-data entitlements, trading-system connectivity, and broker relationships.
- Coordinate pre-launch testing, market data, and trading integrations for newly on-boarded PMs across Asian time zones.
- Serve as escalation point and "trusted advisor" to existing PMs for any trading, infrastructure or counterparty issues.
Business & Performance Analytics
- Design dashboards on KPIs and business metrics; present insights to PMs and senior management.
- Lead cost/benefit cases for data, analytics and technology spend; track realized savings and ROI.
- Deploy AI/ML-driven analytics to identify patterns in performance, risk, and cost data that inform strategic decisions.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Lead strategic, cross-functional projects across operations, treasury, compliance, and technology—owning end-to-end delivery and change management.
- Run high-priority, cross-desk projects (e.g., Asia CCP onboarding, FX TCA implementation, intraday risk enhancements, local clearing mandates).
- Coordinate with Legal / Treasury on ISDA, CSA, give-ups and clearing mandates to support trading strategies across Asian jurisdictions.
- Collaborate closely with the North America and EMEA regional leads to ensure consistency of processes and best-practice sharing.
Vendor & Data Management
- Own the vendor lifecycle for trading and analytics platforms in Asia (contract negotiation, SLA governance, ongoing performance reviews).
- Stay abreast of emerging data/analytics and AI vendors in macro and fixed income and evaluate fit for the platform.
- Champion adoption of AI-powered tools (e.g., LLMs for research synthesis, NLP for news/sentiment, GenAI for workflow automation).
What You'll Bring
- 7-10+ years in business management / COO, product or trading-related role on the buy-side (hedge fund, asset manager) or sell-side fixed income business. Strong preference for candidates that have already been in broad business management roles within hedge fund platforms.
- Deep product knowledge across rates and FX cash & derivatives: government bonds, swaps, futures, options, swaptions, NDFs, forwards, cross-currency swaps, with strong knowledge of Asian rate and FX markets (CNH, SGD, KRW, INR, THB, etc.).
- Strong grasp of pricing, valuation, risk, funding & liquidity, margin and capital usage.
- Familiarity with Asia-specific regulatory frameworks (MAS, SFC, HKMA, JFSA) and local market conventions.
- Fluency with trading technologies: order & execution-management systems, market-data feeds.
- Advanced analytical toolkit—Excel / VBA a must; Python, SQL or PowerBI strongly preferred.
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML tools and frameworks; demonstrated ability to apply generative AI, LLMs, or automation to business processes, analytics, or operational workflows.
- Proven ability to negotiate commercial terms with banks, venues and data providers.
- 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.
- Ability to work across time zones and collaborate effectively with global counterparts.
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.
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