Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist – pausad

We are now looking for a Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist, to our Customer.

The candidate:
We are looking for a candidate with a skill set that complements our existing highly talented team and a passion for learning and growing with the team their professional proficiencies and knowledge. We deeply care about the high quality of our deliverables and value each team member’s contribution to the team’s continued success. We all work to foster a fun working environment where we support one another to build expertise in this domain.

The Customer:
The Customer primarily advise and support operational reporting teams to improve the quality of regulatory reporting to national and super-national regulators, monitor for regulatory change and work with the 2nd line functions to communicate with regulators regarding data requests and issues or incidents arising.

The role – examples of responsibilities are:
• Monitoring of regulation changes and business/product changes which impact regulatory reporting regimes
• Project implementation and new product/system support to analyze and assess the impact to regulatory reporting
• Review and input on ESMA consultations
• Regulator requests and communications
• Incident and issue management advice and escalation
• Coordination of Internal Audit and Compliance Review requests and follow-up on action points
• Management Information and updates to the Exchanges, GMO management, Legal & Compliance and Risk
• Industry body meetings such as EACH, ISDA and FIA
• Charing bi-lateral meetings with our counterparties on reporting differences for the dual sided reporting regimes
• Meetings, communications and training with the operational reporting teams
• Support for new products within the scope of the regulation
• Review of policies, procedures and controls in place and formulation of recommendations to improve reporting processes, quality of reporting, governance and oversight of risks

For you to be successful in this role, you need to have:
• Deep knowledge and experience in an area that is relevant to our function such as, but not limited to: regulatory reporting, MIFID II or EMIR regulation, product/market knowledge in one or more asset classes, trading/trading surveillance, compliance, issue/incident management, risk or legal experience
• Good analytic skills – for example, to be able to assess the significance of issues arising, assess control design and effective operation or analyze changes in the regulation or guidance, and produce requirements for the Customer´s regulatory reporting
• Documentation – Ability to document work performed in detail including findings, conclusions and follow-up actions needed is necessary
• Communication – Excellent oral and written communication skills are required. A big part of what we do requires effective communication with a wide range of external and internal parties. This means we need to know our audience and the appropriate language, level of detail and explanation necessary.
• Outcome-oriented – Proven track record to deliver good results and take ownership of the quality of your work and areas of responsibility
• A standout colleague with strong collaboration and communication skills to work within an international team and with other Customer-functions and project teams
• Problem-solving skills with a structured and detailed approach
• Autonomous – Good ability to prioritize work tasks, multi-task and work autonomously with minimal direct supervision but with support for challenges
• Proficient in English, both written and verbal. The Customer work across 8 countries thus English is theri working language.
• Advanced Excel knowledge, experience working with large data sets – it is an advantage but not necessary to have any knowledge or experience with data analytics software or programming languages such as Python or SQL.
• Any familiarity with interpreting regulatory legal text and analyzing the impact on businesses and products is an advantage as is a very good general understanding of financial products, trading and post-trade processes which impact regulatory reporting.

The Customer is looking for a highly motivated individual that is willing to learn and further develop their expertise. We are willing to support you to gain additional skills and knowledge to support your professional goals and aspirations. We highly encourage our team members to attend industry conferences, engage in thought leadership and pursue a number of different types of learning opportunities.