Finance Specialist

Financial Regulatory Counsel

Location
London

Business Area
Legal, Compliance, and Risk

Ref #
10044439

Description & Requirements

Our Team

Challenging. Surprising. Fast-paced. Purposeful. Life at Bloomberg is many things, but it's never dull. We're a truly global business with a truly diverse workforce. We pride ourselves on being open, inclusive and collaborative – and in providing a work environment that inspires our employees to be their best. At Bloomberg, we work on purpose. All of us engage in meaningful work, delivering leading edge products and solutions that shape the industry and are critical to our customers. You'll also get to work at a company that lives its values and provides employees with opportunities to give back. Whether you thrive on the energy of a newsroom, the pace of a trading floor, or the buzz of a recent tech breakthrough, we'll give you more than a job. We'll give you the opportunity to do amazing work you couldn't do anywhere else.

Bloomberg's Legal & Compliance Department plays a critical role in supporting our businesses and operations around the world. We move quickly and thoughtfully to help address a variety of complex issues that come with being the world's leading financial news and information company. Our team is made up of talented and hardworking legal and compliance professionals who think creatively and work collaboratively in an open environment to deliver results, drive innovation, and solve difficult problems. We are committed to a workplace where all of our employees can thrive regardless of background, and where everyone feels empowered to make an impact. We also recognize the importance of giving back to our communities as evidenced by our award-winning pro bono program!

The Global Financial Regulatory team provides coverage and legal support of Bloomberg's regulated entities and products including support for Bloomberg's non-regulated products and services. We are influential in the development of new products, services and regularly provide legal advice regarding the design and implementation of new products and services.

What's The Role?

Based in London, this is a great opportunity to join the Financial Regulatory legal team who are responsible for the global support of electronic trading venues for securities and derivatives across all asset classes, benchmarks administration, data reporting services, pre-trade analytics, post-trade services, research, information security and enterprise risk.
In our team, you will have the opportunity to support products across the business including electronic trading systems, benchmarks administration and data reporting products. On any given day you could be asked to analyse, help implement, or advocate for change to UK, EU, US and international securities and derivatives laws and financial regulation affecting Bloomberg's businesses, or draft and negotiate agreements with key customers. You will liaise regularly with senior business people, other legal counsel, our Risk, Negotiations and Compliance teams, or other support functions.

We'll trust you to:

• Provide advice and help ensure regulated businesses comply with their regulatory (including conduct and prudential) and commercial obligations
• Provide legal support and advice to a variety of internal stakeholders including business, operations, compliance, risk and sales and marketing
• Help draft and negotiate agreements and regulatory responses
• Bring a willingness to develop your knowledge of securities and derivatives regulation globally, and related practice areas, to complement a highly-functioning legal team with a broad portfolio of regulatory issues facing electronic trading, benchmark administrators, technology and information services providers
• Thrive in collaborating with colleagues to deliver first-class advice and execution to Bloomberg

You'll need to have:

• A minimum of 2 years* at a top tier international law firm and/or in-house legal department of a multinational company, focussed on non-contentious financial regulatory matters
• Expertise in financial services regulation (both UK and EU prudential and conduct obligations) and/or securities/derivatives regulations
• Strong communication, presentation and negotiation skills and the ability to thrive in an open office environment
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a diverse and fast-paced team environment

* Please note we use years of experience as a guide but we certainly will consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary for the role.

We'd love to see:

• Knowledge of regulatory issues relevant to broker-dealers, trading infrastructure (e.g. regulated trading venues, CCPs, data reporting services providers), benchmark administrators, investment advisers, public and private securities offerings and/or regulated businesses in the financial services sector
• A secondment supporting an in-house financial regulation team

If this sounds like you:

Apply if you think we're a good match. We'll get in touch to let you know what the next steps are.