Senior Management Role as Permanent Member of Management Committee
- Full time
- Mid/Senior level
- Competitive Salary
- Option to work fractionally (3-4 days a week) 
- Benefits including Pension and Private Medical

- Work from Home days 

Your team
 

OptAxe is a new innovative Multilateral Trading Facility (“MTF”) providing buy and sell-side firms with a trading platform to execute a broad range of FX options products.

A rare opportunity to work with a small team of highly experienced industry professionals from pre-launch to build out and manage operational, compliance, and risk requirements across the new platform and reporting directly to the firm’s COO.

We offer our UK employees a hybrid working arrangement of 3 and 2 (Office/Home).
OptAxe’s office is located in Mayfair, London, W1S.

 

Your role and responsibilities

 

As part of an innovative team, you will use your operations experience to work with all internal and external stakeholders across multiple elements of the business;

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• - Manage day-to-day operations across the platform including dealing with participant queries.

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  - Co-ordinate all client onboarding including responsibility for KYC & AML requirements and completion of legal documentation.

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  - Support CEO and COO in providing accurate reports for internal and external monitoring, business activity and to meet regulatory reporting.

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  - Day to day responsibility for managing the firm’s compliance program including monitoring

• trading activity and all internal compliance surveillance requirements.

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  - Managing compliance breaches efficiently to closure, ensuring accurate maintenance of

• records to support submissions and queries raised by internal and external stakeholders

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  - Collaborating with the broader team to successfully manage identified risks, breaches and

• enhance mitigating controls.

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  - Where required to coordinate other activities including addition of new markets or products to the platform.

 

Your profile

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  - At least 5 years industry experience in an operational and / or compliance / risk function within an investment bank, broker, or exchange/clearing house.

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  - Exposure to FX products including options preferred.

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  - Some direct compliance exposure desirable

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  - Good understanding of broad operational functions, including operational processes, legal, compliance and regulatory risks.

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  - Experience creating new processes and control procedures valued

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  - Excellent organisational and administrative skills.

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  - Able to work independently but also integrate into a small multi-location team.

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  - Attention to detail and high level of accuracy.

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  - Enthusiastic and positive approach with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

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• - Highly motivated with a self-improvement mind-set.