Context & Environment
Fast-paced, dynamic and international trading environment where the knowledge, expertise and collaboration are the roots of a collective success. This role offers a working environment whereby REMIT II, MAD/MAR, MiFID II, EMIR and internal rules must be adhered to in order to strengthen controls, prevent potentially unlimited fines, and reduce errors and breaches.
Activities
What you will do:
You will ensure that all staff are trained in line with all applicable Laws to ensure best practice.
You will have to keep up to date with Compliance regulations and keep abreast of developments and best practice to ensure that company is not subject to any breaches that could affect its revenue.
You will be offered to take ownership of the Compliance Monitoring work concerning market surveillance and the detection and prevention of any potential or actual market manipulation breaches.
General
- Under the general supervisor of the head of compliance, the Senior Market Compliance officer works across the trading organization as a subject matter expert in regulatory affairs and market compliance surveillance.
- Provides guidance and oversight by researching, planning, developing, and implementing compliance controls that help ensure the Company meets all local and European regulatory requirements.
- Monitors and interprets local and European regulations (REMIT II, MiFID II, Market Abuse Directive …) and stays informed of current and changing requirements.
- Provides advice and assistance to internal departments of regulatory requirements.
- Ensure compliance department has adequate IT systems in place including but not limited to trade surveillance software. Manage the updating and development of such IT systems (in conjunction with IT and other relevant departments).
- Ensure Company's Compliance Documents are deployed and adapted to each sub-activity and keep these documents up to date.
- Develops and conducts employee training on the relevant requirements.
Trade Surveillance for Power Short-term & Long-term activities and Gas & LNG Long term activities
- Work with Compliance analyst on analysing market abuse alerts.
- Work with Compliance analyst to Calibrate and adapt Surveillance tool to a better monitoring.
- Maintain a dialogue with trade surveillance software providers and participate to the improvement of the tool and to the user’s community meetings.
- Assist the head of compliance in establishing control processes for comprehensive monitoring and surveillance tool design.
- Enhances processes and tools to continuously improve the organizations monitoring capabilities and adapts the program to changes in the business and external laws and regulations.
- Assists with the identification and creation of new surveillance reports.
REMIT - Compliance Process Supervision for Power production assets & Short-term teams.
- Monitor REMIT KRIs about notification delays and investigating in case of delays.
- Maintain a continuous review & improvement of the REMIT Process for European production assets and dispatching teams and contribute to the IT projects related to this process in relation with other entities involved.
Advisory and Trainings
- Provide ad hoc regulatory guidance to the organization (local teams in Europe) and senior management on market regulatory matters.
- Plan and deliver bespoke training programs related to REMIT and market abuse regulations to local teams.
- Participate to compliance market compliance on-boarding programs for new joiners (team level, entity level).
- Participate to the preparatory meetings for validation of new trading products.
- Analyse new trading products and geographies, and give compliance view on risks and mitigation measures.
Regulatory watch and communication with regulators and other institutions
- Keep a watch on local & European regulations changes and provide executive summaries to the management.
- Competitor procedures watch through regulators communication and other institutions.
- Assist in providing supporting data and documents and in writing answer to regulators requests for RFI or investigations.
- Answer requests from exchange houses.
- Participates in industry associations meetings, advocacy, regulatory proceedings, and market rulemaking.
Candidate Profile
- The ideal candidate would have a Master degree with 3 to 5 years of experience in trading industry with a good understanding of the financial commodities markets (including futures, options and swaps).
- You have a minimum of 3 years of professional experience working in a commodity-trading environment (preferably gas & Power) on a Middle Office position or as a Compliance officer handling market monitoring / surveillance.
- You have gained experience with various EU commodity exchanges and commodity derivative trading, particularly in the EU/UK
- You have an in-depth knowledge of MAR, MiFID, EMIR, REMIT & local Swiss FinFrag
- This position requires excellent oral, presentation and written communication skills, in English and French, with the ability to apply these skills at all levels of the organization as well as strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to adopt a variety of team building and communication approaches to achieve desired results.
- You should have demonstrated the ability to build consensus with diverse stakeholders, and strong problem-solving skills with aptitude to see the next step and follow through on operational detail.
- Working in our team requires entrepreneurial spirit, strong analytical and interpersonal skills, proactivity, autonomy and the ability to solve problems, think critically, make sound, firm recommendations while resolving complex and sensitive regulatory issues.
- An experience on the Short-term aspect of market compliance and on CCGTs monitoring in relation with REMIT requirements is a plus.
- You should have demonstrated the ability to work across the organization to balance market compliance requirements with commercial opportunities and business objectives.
At TotalEnergies, we believe that our employees’ fulfilment has its roots in the wealth of the experiences they are offered. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to respecting diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard for race, color, gender, religion, national origin, disability, military status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender
Additional Information
TotalEnergies values diversity, promotes individual growth and offers equal opportunity careers.
About us
TotalEnergies has developed a strong expertise in oil and biofuels, natural gas and electricity trading. Trading entities are based in Geneva, Paris, Houston and Singapore.
TotalEnergies installed its European trading hub across in Geneva, which now bring together very large teams around trading activities: TotalEnergies Trading & Shipping (T&S) and TotalEnergies Gas and Power (TGP).
T&S is a trading company in charge of all physical trading and shipping of crude oil and refined products on behalf of the TotalEnergies Company. It has been an active participant all over the supply chain as well as on the derivatives paper market in order to manage the market risk for a long time.
