Senior Technical Analyst

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) is a Fortune 500 company that operates a leading network of global futures, equity and equity options exchanges, as well as global clearing and data services across financial and commodity markets. By putting the needs of our customers and global participants first, we are a high-growth company that started by bringing transparency and risk management to the global derivatives markets. We're engineers, strategists and problem-solvers who continually create and improve technology that solves market structure challenges on behalf of the industry.

The primary responsibility of this role is to ensure ongoing compliance with ICE Clear Europe's (ICEU) constantly evolving regulatory reporting obligations, notably in respect to CFTC Part 39, SFTR and EMIR transaction reporting. The candidate will be involved in the overall management of regulatory focused projects within the department, including the production of business requirements, reviewing & approving functional specifications and the user acceptance testing/validation of the final reporting deliveries. This will require comprehensive knowledge of ICEUs regulatory requirements, industry standards and company policies, as well as a good understanding of project delivery lifecycle process and ability to coordinate closely with ICE's technology development teams based in Atlanta.

The role will require an understanding of the legislation underpinning the regulatory reports and the ability to analyse the impact from changes to that legislation on those reports. The candidate will be expected to assist with questions and requests from regulatory authorities, particularly the Bank of England, ESMA and the CFTC. Some of these requests may be complex and urgent in nature and ICEU senior management places a high priority on this work. Experience with business automation tools such as Power Automate, N8N or AI-driven technologies is desirable. The firm is actively adopting such tooling across a range of use cases including operational workflow automation, testing assistance, automated email responses and chatbot development, and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to this agenda.

Responsibilities

• Assist with Project Management of regulatory reporting initiatives: including planning process, business requirement definition, test design, planning and execution are key aspects of the role.
• Perform daily operational tasks including diagnosing and resolving reporting exceptions, monitoring daily reconciliations, and incident management.
• Provide functional guidance to development team(s) on new reporting activities or modifications of existing activities, specification changes and issue resolution.
• Monitor Regulatory Activities: Ability to analyse changes to legislation and rules and the impact on regulatory reporting, and respond to those that may impact ICEU.
• Maintain Records and Documentation: Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of compliance activities, including documentation of regulatory interactions.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Collaborate with internal stakeholders, such as risk business units, operations, and other departments, to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Support automation of day-to-day operational processes, including development of automated workflows using RPA tools such as Power Automate, to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.

Knowledge and Experience

The areas involved are numerous and complex. Regulatory reporting requires an understanding of transaction flow through various clearing states such as risk management, operational processes and treasury management. Regulatory reporting experience is desired, preferably knowledge of EMIR, SFTR, CFTC 39.19 and ISO20022 CCP Supervisory Reporting. However, other regulatory reporting experience, such as understanding of MIFID II, MIFIR or Fundamental Review of Trading Book (FRTB) will be considered if it demonstrates the skills required to interpret regulation and how to apply it to business processes. Ideally the candidate would come from a clearing background, with good knowledge of the overall regulatory landscape. However, experience of working in the Finance sector for a number of years and the capacity to quickly understand the sometimes complex and extensive business processes and data is key. Futures and Options knowledge is preferred, ideally including an understanding of the concepts, terminology and lifecycle of the contracts. Knowledge of post trade / clearing applications and functions therein is desirable as is any specific experience of energy and/or commodities markets.

IT skill set – experience with SQL or other data analysis tools across big datasets, demonstrating analytical and data skills across business data. Experience with AI technologies is increasingly desirable. This may include practical experience of AI-assisted analysis tools, prompt engineering or the application of AI within operational or reporting workflows.

Education

Higher level education desirable. Training in IT development methodologies, such as Agile, Waterfall.