Regulatory Compliance Advisor – Global Trading
Location: London / Hybrid
Industry: Commodities Trading / Energy
Belcan Workforce Solutions are seeking an experienced Regulatory Compliance Advisor to support and oversee compliance across global commodities trading activities. The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring adherence to relevant trading regulations, market conduct rules, and compliance frameworks while providing expert guidance to trading and senior leadership teams.
Strong Oil & Gas industry knowledge and experience would be viewed as a significant advantage and is highly desirable for this position.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure compliance with all relevant trading regulations, market conduct rules, exchange requirements, and transaction surveillance obligations.
- Advise trading teams and senior management on regulatory developments and the impact of regulatory change on trading activities.
- Develop and maintain compliance policies and procedures across multiple jurisdictions.
- Conduct regulatory reviews, surveillance, and monitoring of trading activities to identify and mitigate compliance risks.
- Partner with Trading, Legal, Market Risk, and Risk Operations teams to address regulatory and compliance matters.
- Act as a primary contact for regulatory authorities and support responses to regulatory enquiries.
- Deliver compliance training and educational materials to trading teams.
- Monitor emerging regulatory trends and provide strategic advice on future compliance initiatives.
- Support reviews of new transactions, products, and business activities from a regulatory compliance perspective.
Requirements
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Law, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience within commodities trading compliance or a related regulatory function.
- Strong understanding of global financial regulations including Dodd-Frank, CFTC, MiFID II, EMIR, and MAR.
- Experience with trade surveillance systems, compliance monitoring tools, and regulatory reporting platforms.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and analytical skills.
Highly Desirable
- Previous experience within the Oil & Gas trading sector.
- Strong understanding of the regulatory landscape, compliance risks, and trading operations associated with Oil & Gas commodities markets.
- Experience supporting compliance programmes within energy trading environments.
Key Skills
- Regulatory Compliance & Governance
- Trading Surveillance & Monitoring
- Risk Identification & Mitigation
- Stakeholder Management
- Regulatory Reporting
- Market Conduct & Market Abuse Prevention
- Leadership & Influencing
- Strategic Problem Solving
- Project Management
Contract details:
- Location: London (fully on-site, Monday to Friday)
- Duration: 12-month contract (inside IR35)
- Hours: 35 hours per week
- Rate: Up to £76.86 per hour PAYE or £99.02 per hour Umbrella
This is an excellent opportunity to join a global trading business where you will have significant exposure to senior stakeholders and play a key role in shaping and maintaining a robust compliance culture across international trading operations.
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