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.
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.
Additional responsibilities of the role will include:
- 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
- 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
If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to [email protected]
Skills Required
- 7+ years of compliance experience at a financial institution
- Meaningful experience in a control room, capital markets compliance, or equivalent restricted list function
- Familiarity with wall crossings, information barriers, and material nonpublic information controls
- Ability to make judgment and escalation decisions under time pressure
- Strong written communication skills for producing policy and procedure documentation
- Strong verbal communication skills and ability to liaise with traders about live and proposed flows
- Familiarity with APAC regulatory frameworks, especially Hong Kong and China
- Familiarity with sanctions regimes affecting global trading
- Fluency in English
Jane Street Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are offered at no cost for employees and dependents, with robust onsite care including primary care, physical therapy, and mental‑health therapy. Private onsite gyms and counseling resources further reinforce the health focus.
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Parental & Family Support — Fully paid parental leave for all parents, with additional time for birth parents, is highlighted alongside expanded fertility benefits and well‑equipped nursing suites. These offerings position family support as a core element of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Daily free meals and snacks, private onsite gyms, recreation spaces, and rich learning programs (including tuition reimbursement and company classes) elevate day‑to‑day quality of life. Onsite medical suites and speaker series add to the lifestyle and development mix.
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What We Do
Jane Street works differently. As a liquidity provider and market maker, we trade on more than 200 trading venues across 45 countries and help form the backbone of global markets. Our approach is rooted in technology and rigorous quantitative analysis, but our success is driven by our people. Our bright, beautiful offices in the heart of New York, London, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam are open and buzzing with conversation. We come from many backgrounds and encourage travel between offices to share perspectives. Some of our best ideas come from bumping into a visiting colleague at the office coffee bar. Markets move fast. Staying competitive as we’ve grown has required constant invention—of new trading strategies, technology, and processes. We’ve found this is easier when you hire humble, kind people. They tend to help each other, and prioritize teamwork over titles. We invest heavily in teaching and training. There’s a library and a classroom in every office, because deepening your understanding of something is considered real work. Guest lectures, classes, and conferences round out the intellectual exchanges that happen every day. People grow into long careers at Jane Street because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test. More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started.
