Compliance Specialist, Control Room at Jane Street

<h3><strong>About the Position</strong></h3> <p>We are looking for an experienced Compliance Specialist to own and grow our control room function in Hong Kong. This team decides when Jane Street should stop trading a name — for example, if we've been wall-crossed on a deal, or due to sanctions or other regulatory concerns.</p> <p>Our trading business in Asia is growing quickly, and the volume and variety of restrictions we handle is growing with it. On any given day you might be walking a desk through what they can and can't do while a restriction is live, working with our Global Capital Markets team on a time-sensitive block or assessing whether a new sanctions regime touches instruments we hold.&nbsp;</p> <p>Additional responsibilities of the role will include:</p> <ul> <li>Running day-to-day restriction processes end-to-end, including evaluating the scope of affected names, applying and lifting restrictions, and record keeping</li> <li>Advising traders, our Business Development team, and other teams on what a restriction means in practice</li> <li>Owning the policies and procedures behind these business lines and processes, and keeping them accurate as our business, systems and regulations change</li> <li>Handling sanctions and government-driven trading restrictions and monitoring for any changes that affect us</li> <li>Supporting surveillance, look-back reviews, and information barrier and clean room arrangements where MNPI is involved</li> <li>Continuing to build and evolve our control room function over time</li> </ul> <h3><strong>About You</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Have 7+ years of compliance experience at a financial institution, with meaningful time in a control room or capital markets compliance or equivalent restricted list function</li> <li>Have a high degree of familiarity with wall crossings, information barriers and MNPI controls work in practice</li> <li>Comfortable making judgment or escalation calls under time pressure&nbsp;</li> <li>A strong written communicator who can produce policy and procedure documentation as needed</li> <li>A strong verbal communicator who is capable of liaising with traders to understand live and proposed flows and translate them into compliance requirements</li> <li>Familiar with APAC regulatory frameworks (Hong Kong and China especially) and with sanctions regimes affecting global trading</li> <li>Fluent in English</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to [email protected]</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>