Senior Trade Compliance Officer: Energy & Financial Commodities and Derivatives; REMIT​/EMIR​/MiFID II​/FINFRAG

Senior Trade Compliance Officer:
Energy & Financial Commodities and Derivatives

The Senior Trade Compliance Officer is responsible for designing, operating and continuously enhancing the compliance framework for physical and financial energy and commodities trading activities, with particular focus on REMIT, EMIR, MAR and MiFID II obligations across EU, UK and (where applicable) Swiss markets. The role acts as a senior advisor to trading, risk, legal and middle-office, providing real-time guidance on market conduct, reporting, disclosure, and surveillance matters.

Key responsibilities include acting as the primary day-to-day compliance contact for trading desks across physical and financial commodities, providing timely, pragmatic advice on trade compliance questions, designing, operating and continuously improving the trade compliance framework, leading or overseeing trade surveillance across relevant asset classes, monitoring, investigating and documenting alerts and potential breaches relating to insider trading, market manipulation, capacity hoarding, spoofing, layering and other abusive practices under MAR and REMIT, overseeing regulatory reporting, notifications and disclosures under REMIT, EMIR, MiFID II/MiFIR and other applicable regimes, coordinating responses to inquiries, audits and investigations from regulators, exchanges, TSOs, and other competent authorities relating to trading activities and market conduct, supporting the regulatory impact assessment and implementation of new or amended requirements, providing compliance input into new products, trading strategies, market entries and business initiatives, developing and delivering targeted training for front office, operations, risk and support functions on REMIT, EMIR, MAR, MiFID II and broader trade compliance topics, maintaining and updating internal policy documents, guidance notes and desk procedures related to market conduct, reporting, surveillance, conflicts of interest, and use of inside information, conducting periodic compliance risk assessments of trading activities, identifying key regulatory and conduct risks, and defining remediation actions and monitoring plans, tracking regulatory and market design developments across relevant jurisdictions and advising senior management on emerging compliance risks and strategic implications, and representing the company in relevant industry forums, working groups and external engagements with regulators or system operators on trade compliance and market design topics.