Executive Assistant - 12m FTC

The Role

The role’s primary responsibly will be supporting the Global Head of Discretionary Macro and Fixed Income and DMFI Business Development team. The ideal candidate is self-motivated, professional, and capable of managing a diverse workload and prioritizing tasks in a fast-paced corporate environment.

What you’ll do

This is a role with many hats; this candidate will be responsible for extensive scheduling and calendar management, preparing agendas for meetings, expenses. They will arrange domestic and international travel, accommodations, itineraries, and all correspondence related to arrangements including flights, hotels, car service, meetings, restaurant reservations and generating concise reports and dashboards.

They will support with Business Development related activities; archiving, organizing, and updating all internal notes, communications, and candidate materials within the CRM database. This candidate will be responsible for working with the heads of BD and Risk to prepare materials for biweekly meetings. This candidate will serve as the operational hub for DMFI Business Development, the hiring pipeline progresses smoothly; they will also log and organize all incoming resumes/CVs, maintain real-time status updates, capture interview notes, prepare meeting materials, managing relationships with search firms and other external vendors to deliver a first-class candidate experience and proactively flag bottlenecks or next steps for key stakeholders.

What you’ll bring

What you need

• Strong written & verbal communication
• Proficient in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple streams of information & tasks
• Process-oriented and very strong attention to detail
• Efficient time management and strong sense of urgency
• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills
• Self-Starter - Strong ownership of processes and end products
• Personable, mature, and poised

Personal Traits

• Self-motivated
• Ambitious
• Team player
• Personable
• Professional
• Culture carrier

We’d love if you had

• Experience with Navan
• Experience with organizing events

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.