Senior Compliance Officer
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Senior Compliance Officer owning global compliance for BHFT, a proprietary algorithmic trading firm. Advising trading teams and governing algorithmic trading across asset classes and jurisdictions.
Responsibilities:
- Take full ownership of global compliance across commodities, rates, equity futures, options on futures, and equities
- Provide real-time trading guidance across all asset classes and venues
- Build and maintain a pre-cleared rules framework for recurring desk queries
- Advise development, trading, and operations teams on compliant tools and processes
- Build and maintain an algo trading governance framework covering pre-deployment approvals, ongoing monitoring, change management, business continuity, information security, and annual review
- Oversee new market and product approvals
- Supervise trade surveillance across all venues
- Oversee regulatory and exchange affairs, including filings, registrations, regulator and exchange inquiries, client due-diligence reviews, and FCM interface
- Maintain the policy framework and run the training program across all regions
- Oversee AML and sanctions screening of vendors and counterparties
- Supervise and develop two Compliance Officers
- Represent compliance in cross-functional discussions with risk, development, and front office
- Serve as escalation point for non-routine compliance matters
Requirements:
- Hands-on experience building compliance tools and systems, not only policy and procedure work
- Direct experience in a compliance role at a proprietary trading firm, market maker, electronic trading venue, or trading desk
- Experience across commodities, rates, equity futures, options on futures, and equities
- Working knowledge of algo trading controls and governance frameworks
- Familiarity with multi-venue regulatory obligations across at least two of: US (CFTC/NFA), EU (MiFID II), India (SEBI), UK (FCA)
- Knowledge of AML, recordkeeping, whistleblowing, and conflicts of interest policies
- Ability to write, implement, and maintain compliance policies and procedures
- Ability to deliver timely, well-reasoned guidance while maintaining independence as a control function
- Strong written communication for policies, procedures, and regulatory correspondence
- Experience with equities compliance frameworks such as Reg SHO, short selling regimes, and locate obligations (nice to have)
- Experience with exchange membership obligations including ICE, CME, LME, and NSE (nice to have)
- Familiarity with position-limit regimes across multiple venues (nice to have)
- Exposure to Chinese exchange connectivity (CTP) (nice to have)
- Background in trade surveillance systems and alert handling (nice to have)
- Experience building compliance frameworks from scratch (nice to have)
- Experience automating AML/sanctions screening workflows (nice to have)
Benefits:
- Work remotely from anywhere in the world with a flexible schedule
- Compensation for health insurance
- Compensation for sports activities
- Compensation for non-professional training
- Opportunities for professional growth and self-realization
- Collaboration with industry-leading professionals
- Modern international technology company without bureaucracy


















