Business Manager

The Role

We are seeking a hands-on, detail-oriented professional to support the day-to-day business management of Schonfeld's Macro & Fixed Income platform in EMEA. Working closely with Rates & FX PMs across the region, this person will drive PM onboarding, business analytics, operational execution, and cross-functional coordination. This role covers London, Dubai, and any future EMEA locations, and reports into the COO of DMFI.

What you’ll do

Business Management

• Support Rates & FX PMs across EMEA on day-to-day business needs, translating investment goals into resourcing, capital, and infrastructure requirements.
• Maintain and update business plans for PM builds and growth initiatives in the region.
• Analyze desk P&L, risk, liquidity, funding and balance-sheet usage; flag issues and recommend actions to enhance returns and capital efficiency.
• Identify new products or market opportunities specific to EMEA and support approval / launch processes.
• Leverage AI and automation tools to streamline reporting and surface actionable insights.
• Ensure business operations remain compliant with EMEA-specific regulatory environments (FCA, DFSA, ESMA).

PM Onboarding & Lifecycle Management

• Manage onboarding of new Macro/Fixed Income PM teams in EMEA: 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 EMEA time zones.
• Act as a day-to-day point of contact for existing PMs on trading, infrastructure, or counterparty issues.
• Navigate multi-jurisdictional requirements (UK, EU, DIFC) during PM setup and ongoing operations.

Business & Performance Analytics

• Build and maintain dashboards on KPIs and business metrics, present insights to PMs and regional management.
• Support cost/benefit cases for data, analytics and technology spend; track realized savings and ROI.
• Use AI/ML-driven analytics to identify patterns in performance, risk, and cost data.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Execute cross-functional projects across operations, treasury, compliance, and technology—owning workstreams and driving delivery.
• Coordinate with Legal / Treasury on ISDA, CSA, give-ups and clearing mandates to support trading strategies across EMEA jurisdictions.
• Working closely with the North America and Asia regional leads to ensure consistency of processes and best-practice sharing.

Vendor & Data Management

• Manage the vendor lifecycle for trading and analytics platforms in EMEA (contract tracking, SLA monitoring, performance reviews).
• Stay abreast of emerging data/analytics and AI vendors in macro and fixed income and evaluate fit for the platform.
• Support adoption of AI-powered tools (e.g., LLMs for research synthesis, NLP for news/sentiment, GenAI for workflow automation).

What you’ll bring
What you need:

• 5-8 years in business management / COO, product or trading-related role on the buy-side (hedge fund, asset manager) or sell-side fixed income business.
• Solid product knowledge across rates and FX cash & derivatives: government bonds, swaps, futures, options, swaptions, NDFs, forwards, cross-currency swaps.
• Good grasp of pricing, valuation, risk, funding & liquidity, margin and capital usage.
• Familiarity with EMEA-specific regulatory frameworks.
• Fluency with trading technologies: order & execution-management systems, market-data feeds.
• Strong analytical toolkit—Excel / VBA a must; Python, SQL or PowerBI preferred.
• Experience with AI/ML tools; comfort applying generative AI or automation to business processes and analytics.
• Ability to negotiate commercial terms with banks, venues and data providers.
• Strong project-management, prioritization and communication skills.
• 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.

We’d love if you had:

• Experience within multi-PM hedge fund platforms preferred.

Our Culture

The firm’s ethos is embedded in our people. ‘Talent is our strategy’ is our mantra and drives how we approach all initiatives at the firm. We believe our success is because of our people, so putting our talent above all else is our top priority.

Schonfeld strives to create an environment where our people can thrive. We foster a teamwork-oriented, collaborative environment where ideas at any level are encouraged and shared. The development and advancement of our talent is honed through interactions with each other, learning & educational offerings, and through opportunities to make impactful contributions.

At Schonfeld, we strive to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout all of our employees with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the forefront of this mission. As a firm we are committed to creating a hiring process which is not only fair, but also welcoming and supportive. On a daily basis, our employees welcome diversity across identity, thought, people and views which serves as the foundation of our culture and success. You can learn more about our DEI initiatives here - Belonging @ Schonfeld.

Who we are

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a multi-manager platform that invests its capital with Internal and Partner portfolio managers, primarily on an exclusive or semi-exclusive basis, across four trading strategies; quantitative, fundamental equity, tactical trading and discretionary macro & fixed income. We have created a unique structure to provide global portfolio managers with autonomy, flexibility and support to best enable them to maximize the value of their businesses.

Over the last 30 years, Schonfeld has successfully capitalized on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets. We have developed and invested heavily in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics and continue to capitalize on new opportunities. In 2021 we launched our newest strategy, discretionary macro & fixed income as part of the continual growth of Schonfeld’s investible universe. Our portfolio exposure has expanded across the Americas, Europe and Asia as well as multiple asset classes and products.

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