About the job
To facilitate this, you will leverage and expand your own expertise and also engage the with first line colleagues, including the front office, Risk and Compliance in the second line of defense, and key functional partners including Legal, Finance and Operations. The Markets Sales, Trading & Research desks you will support cover a broad range of products including Equities, Commodities and Currencies, Fixed Income, Credit Trading, Munis and Structured Products.
Job Responsibilities
- Execute the identification of Controls which are relevant to specific statutes / laws / rules / regulations (‘legal obligations’)
- Participate in associated quality reviews and ongoing data hygiene activities.
- Support the preparation, interpretation and review of the Compliance Risk Assessments
- Keep the control tagging evergreen as the underlying control framework and population of associated legal obligations evolve.
- Develop and deploy subject matter expertise of local business activities, applicability of rules and regulations, and the local legal and regulatory framework.
- Represent Markets in working groups and other meetings for specific Compliance Risk framework requirements.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
- 5+ year career focused on the capital markets regulatory rules issued by the major agencies that cover equities, currencies, commodities, credit, municipal bonds and structured products.
- Practical knowledge of trading room operational risk, supervisory preventative and detective controls and end-to-end deal flow from pitching to settlement
- Experience in supporting risk and control identification and implementation.
- Analytical thinker who can interpret regulatory rules, form fact-based conclusions and identify new risks to sales and trading activities. Must have the ability to synthesize large volumes of information and draft key messages for senior leaders.
- Demonstrate sound judgment, maturity, and poise to influence and collaborate with capital markets personnel.
- Energetic, self-motivated, and thrives in the challenge of simultaneous work-streams.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills
- Adept at interpreting legal text as a layperson (note: formal legal qualifications are not required)
- Knowledge of Markets products and businesses