Location: London (Hybrid)
Contract Role
Overview
A rapidly growing energy trading and derivatives firm is seeking an experienced Clearing Compliance Specialist to support the expansion of its clearing and post-trade infrastructure. This role will play a critical part in ensuring regulatory compliance, operational resilience, and effective risk management across clearing activities, clearing broker relationships, and central counterparty (CCP) interactions.
The successful candidate will work closely with Trading, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Legal teams, providing subject matter expertise across exchange-traded and cleared OTC derivatives while helping build scalable controls and governance frameworks to support future growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide compliance oversight and advisory support across futures, options, and cleared OTC derivatives activities.
- Manage and support relationships with clearing brokers, clearing members, CCPs, and exchanges, ensuring compliance with relevant rules and obligations.
- Monitor adherence to clearing requirements, including margin methodologies, collateral management, default management frameworks, and regulatory obligations.
- Conduct compliance reviews and risk assessments relating to clearing arrangements, segregation models, client asset protections, and operational processes.
- Support onboarding and due diligence processes for clearing counterparties, brokers, and service providers.
- Assist with regulatory reporting, audits, and responses to regulatory inquiries relating to clearing activities.
- Develop, enhance, and maintain clearing-related policies, procedures, controls, and governance frameworks.
- Partner closely with Operations, Trading, Risk, Treasury, and Legal teams to resolve clearing and post-trade issues efficiently.
- Support strategic initiatives involving new products, exchanges, clearing relationships, and market access arrangements.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience within clearing compliance, clearing operations, market infrastructure, or post-trade risk functions.
- Strong knowledge of major clearing houses and CCPs, including ICE Clear Europe, CME Clearing, LCH, or equivalent global clearing venues.
- Deep understanding of clearing regulations and market infrastructure frameworks, including EMIR, Dodd-Frank, CFTC requirements, and relevant FCA regulations.
- Experience with client clearing models, give-up arrangements, segregation structures, margining frameworks, and collateral management processes.
- Strong understanding of derivatives markets, including futures, options, and OTC cleared products.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to operate effectively within fast-paced, highly regulated trading environments.
Preferred Background
- Experience within a trading firm, market maker, hedge fund, brokerage, futures commission merchant (FCM), or clearing member environment.
- Direct exposure to energy, commodities, or derivatives markets.
- Experience working closely with exchanges, CCPs, clearing brokers, and regulatory bodies.
- Proven track record supporting the build-out or enhancement of clearing governance, controls, and regulatory frameworks.