Responsibilities:
- Own the company's financial model and financial plan. Prepare budgets and track to actuals, with support from shared finops teams.
- Own core planning mechanisms including goal setting and tracking, offsites, business planning documents, and reporting to owners.
- Develop and drive on-time execution of project plans within Voleon Securities and across multiple teams within the Voleon Group for critical cross-functional projects.
- Oversee financial operations and ensure strong execution by partner teams, including finops for trading activities, corporate accounting, audit, preparation and review of monthly financial statements.
- Define and drive reporting and review of key controllable input metrics that measure progress and performance.
- Ensure robustness of regulatory compliance, in partnership with Chief Compliance Officer.
- Research and develop plans for business expansion opportunities such as geographic expansion.
- Evaluate and negotiate potential vendor relationships and strategic partnerships.
- Drive creation and operation of key business functions required to support rapid growth and expansion.
Requirements:
- 5-10 years of professional experience in roles demanding high judgment and leadership across growth businesses.
- Experience leading complex cross-organizational projects that meet (or exceed) deadlines.
- Proven ability to develop crisp, clear spreadsheet models for business planning, financial modeling and analysis.
- Ability to track complex structures and a wide range of key details while maintaining focus on long-term strategic objectives.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, able to synthesize complex issues crisply and clearly.
- Track record of earning trust with colleagues.
- Ability to dive deep with technical teams to solve problems.
- Strong bias for action, ready to move forward in the face of uncertainty and take smart risks.
- Exceptional attention to detail and very high standards for quality.
- Authorization to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Direct experience in technology-driven market making businesses.
- Startup experience or core team member in new business launches within existing organizations.
- MBA from a top school.
Top Skills
What We Do
Founded in 2007 by two machine learning scientists, The Voleon Group is a quantitative hedge fund headquartered in Berkeley, CA. We are committed to solving large-scale financial prediction problems with statistical machine learning.
The Voleon Group combines an academic research culture with an emphasis on scalable architectures to deliver technology at the forefront of investment management. Many of our employees hold doctorates in statistics, computer science, and mathematics, among other quantitative disciplines.
Voleon's CEO holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and previously founded and led a successful technology startup. Our Chief Investment Officer and Head of Research is Statistics faculty at UC Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D. Voleon prides itself on cultivating an office environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and open thinking. We are committed to excellence in all aspects of our research and operations, while maintaining a culture of intellectual curiosity and flexibility.
The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
