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Compliance Specialist, Control Room

Jane Street· Legal and Compliance
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Hong Kongfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Experienced Compliance Specialist to own and grow the control room function in Hong Kong, focusing on decisions about when Jane Street should stop trading a name due to wall-crossings, sanctions, or other regulatory concerns. Partners with Global Capital Markets and other teams to manage time-sensitive restrictions and ensure regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

  • Running day-to-day restriction processes end-to-end, including evaluating the scope of affected names, applying and lifting restrictions, and record keeping
  • Advising traders, our Business Development team, and other teams on what a restriction means in practice
  • Owning the policies and procedures behind these business lines and processes, and keeping them accurate as our business, systems and regulations change
  • Handling sanctions and government-driven trading restrictions and monitoring for any changes that affect us
  • Supporting surveillance, look-back reviews, and information barrier and clean room arrangements where MNPI is involved
  • Continuing to build and evolve our control room function over time

Qualifications

  • 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
  • Have a high degree of familiarity with wall crossings, information barriers and MNPI controls work in practice
  • Comfortable making judgment or escalation calls under time pressure
  • A strong written communicator who can produce policy and procedure documentation as needed
  • A strong verbal communicator who is capable of liaising with traders to understand live and proposed flows and translate them into compliance requirements
  • Familiar with APAC regulatory frameworks (Hong Kong and China especially) and with sanctions regimes affecting global trading
  • Fluent in English

Skills

Required:Compliance in control room or capital marketsWall crossings and MNPI controlsPolicy and procedure documentationCommunication with tradersAPAC regulatory frameworksEnglish fluency
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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