Role Responsibilities of the position in brief:

Provide support to regional stakeholders in day-to-day risk management of Electronic and Algorithmic trading activities.
Ensure compliance to EAT Risk policies and procedures by periodic reviews and reporting.
Engaging with stakeholders across divisions and regions to ensure timely deliveries.
Provide support for running of Risk Committees, Forums and preparation of meeting materials.
Review and analyze Electronic Trading relevant incidents and facilitate reviews of lessons learned and cross-functional reviews.
Coordinating regulatory attestations like MiFID II attestations.
Facilitate the annual control attestation process. The process involves understanding the process, controls and ensuring that the controls are adequate.
Review new and upcoming Electronic and Algorithmic Trading specific regulations. Support regions in performing gap analysis with the Firm s Stakeholders to determine level of compliance, gaps, and remediation plans.
Contribute to the continued development of the Algo Control Framework and work with key stakeholders to embed new processes.

Key Skills:

Ideal candidate will have decent understanding of the four key areas as below.

At the minimum, we expect candidate to be we'll-versed with at least one of the below four:

Understanding of Electronic and Algorithmic Trading activities
Risk Limit Management in Market Risk - setup, adjustment, review and breaches
Non-financial and Operational Risks - RCSA, OpRisk Events, Risk Assessment
Technology Risk - Understanding building blocks of the tools, relevant risks.
A candidate with prior experience in IT Risk and Control / Algo Trading Risk / e-Trade Support / e-Trade Operational Risk would be preferred.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage with all levels of management. Understanding of Policies and Compliance would be added advantage.
Technical fluency. Specifically, must have the ability to simplify technical concepts to present effectively to a non-technical audience.
An ability to remain objective and to independently raise areas of risk exposure.
Ability to effectively collaborate with multiple stakeholders including compliance, legal, internal audit, risk managements and senior business partners.
Strong project management skills with the ability to handle multiple deliverables.

Working knowledge of the following is preferred:

Understanding of any one of the assets classes (Equity / FX / Rates) - Rules and regulations relating to electronic trading including but not limited to MiFID II, PRA, FCA, CFTC, Dodd Frank, MAR etc.
Knowledge about Algorithmic and electronic trading workflows: algorithmic trading strategies, smart order routing, order management systems, auto hedging, pricing and RFQs, dark pools, FIX protocol etc.
Fundamentals of IT change, Technology platforms and standard control requirements

Education

UG: B.Tech/B.E. in Any Specialization

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