Market Structure & Regulatory Affairs Specialist (Vice President)

Market Structure & Regulatory Affairs Specialist (Vice President)

ING Financial Markets UK

The Work Environment

Financial Markets (FM) is one of the global product business lines of ING Wholesale Banking and is INGs gateway to secondary capital markets around the world. The FM Regulatory Centre of Expertise (Reg CoE) team has a Front Office mandate and is responsible for Regulatory Risk (excluding prudential) & Control across the three pillars shown below:

Regulatory Outlook Advice (including external advocacy) & Implementation Non-Financial Risk & Control Data Management & Data Governance

The UK FM Regulation & Non-Financial Risk (NFR) team is the UK component of the global FM Reg CoE team and covers the first two pillars for the UK (the third pillar is centrally managed from the Netherlands). The UK FM Regulation & NFR team works in collaboration with FM Reg CoE colleagues in the Netherlands and the US as well as with functions spanning the three lines of defence including Legal Compliance Trading Risk Management Operational Risk Management Audit Regulatory Transaction Reporting and Operations.

The Team

The key objective of the UK FM Regulation & Non-Financial Risk team is to manage the execution of UK FMs Regulatory and NFR objectives including by being a trusted advisor instigating and overseeing UK FM regulatory programmes and maintaining a robust UK FM control environment. The team mandate comprises:

• Being the single point of contact for UK FM regulatory implementation and remediation programmes collaborating with stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely delivery;

• Enabling UK FM Sales and Trading desks to operate within evolving regulatory parameters by delivering commercially aware advice on regulatory rules and expectations;

• Managing UK FMs NFR and Compliance Frameworks ensuring related controls are designed and executed in accordance with INGs risk appetite and industry best practice;

• Overseeing the progress of UK FM Risk Compliance and Control deliverables; and producing the requisite check and challenge feedback to ensure UK FM business lines remain compliant;

• Maintaining a culture of regulatory and operational excellence championing a strong UK FM Risk Culture and driving change by supporting strategic initiatives and transformation projects.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced VP-level regulatory professional to join the UK FM Regulation & NFR team. Your focus will be on the regulatory deliverables in the team. However where needed you could also be asked to provide your help to pick up specific NFR deliverables.

Alongside the broader mandate of the team as set out above key individual responsibilities include:

• Providing follow-up on regulatory horizon scanning or other regulatory insights. Provide the support and advice to relevant stakeholders and ensuring changes are implemented in accordance with regulatory requirements and timelines with solutions to protect INGs business interest;

• Consolidating responses to FM-relevant UK regulatory Discussion and Consultation Papers contributing to related decision-making and ensuring the FM (global) position is clearly articulated through external advocacy (through active participation in relevant industry working groups and/or on own name basis);

• Constructively challenging the status quo exercising check and challenge principles and creating technologically optimised solutions in a fast changing and complex regulatory environment subject to increasing UK & EU regulatory divergence;

• Delivering on the core regulatory expertise required of the role in accordance with (UK) MiFID SMCR Conduct of Business Product Governance Market Abuse as well as any other regulatory obligations applicable to Financial Markets;

• Ongoing learning to enhance regulatory and business knowledge whilst supporting the development of junior members of the team e.g. through knowledge sharing and coaching.

Candidate Profile

• A bachelors degree supplemented with a professional qualification or masters degree in a Regulatory Legal Compliance Finance Accounting Business or Economics-related field;

• At least 6 years of relevant experience in a Financial Markets Front Office environment preferably in a Market structure or Regulatory affairs role or a hands-on delivery-oriented Financial Markets Regulatory Legal role;

• Demonstrable interpretation and practical application of UK regulatory (non-prudential) obligations including FSMA FCA HM Treasury requirements and a firm understanding of EU equivalents (MiFID EMIR SFTR etc.);

• A clear and confident communicator well-versed in managing multi-disciplinary senior-level stakeholder relationships with a proactive and innovative mindset and translating complex regulatory topics into tangible actions;

• An adaptable driven team player who confidently escalates or delegates where necessary and maintains impactful yet empathetic professional relationships.

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