As a Markets Advisory Compliance Officer - Vice President within Compliance Advisory Team, you will act as subject matter expert for regulations that apply to the Markets Line of Business, with a focus on equity derivatives, benchmark administration, retail structured products, listed derivatives and Asset Management.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide credible, timely and risk-based advice, challenge and support on regulatory matters, including ‘live’ regulatory interpretations and decisions to the business in high profile and/or time constrained situations
- Provide leadership and compliance input to regulatory change management
- Deliver timely and robustly documented input into business initiatives that is consistent with the firm's regulatory and reputational risk tolerances - e.g. new product proposals, business reorganization, review of specific initiatives/transactions/structures to identify regulatory issues
- Accommodate scheduled and ad-hoc trainings to the business
- Run accurate and timely completion of monitoring activities
- Identify, implement and review of compliance policies, procedures & additional documentation as may be required
- Prepare the materials and act as compliance representative at business forums
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Familiarity with market structures and products - ideally exposure to at least some of the coverage areas listed above
- Knowledge of the UK and EU regulatory framework as applicable to the coverage areas (e.g. MiFID II, MAR and PRIIPs), and recent regulatory developments, (e.g. Consumer Duty, Retail Investment Strategy)
- Able to work independently and have sufficient experience to know when to escalate an issue is essential
- Possess a high-level of attention to detail and focus on the quality for their work product
- Being proactive, able to think critically about the information presented to them, comfortable with subjective situations, and ready to ask appropriate questions and effectively challenge
- Good team player and will be expected to provide cross coverage of other areas
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Relevant experience of performing a Compliance, Risk or Control role in a global investment bank would be a significant advantage