, United Kingdom Job Family Group: Compliance Worker Type: Regular Posting Start Date: December 10, 2024 Business unit: Downstream and Renewables Experience Level: Experienced Professionals Job Description: What’s the role? Reporting to the Head of Financial Crime, Regulation and Conduct Risk, the Regulation Manager EMEA is a member of the Financial Crime, Regulation and Conduct Risk Leadership Team within T&S Compliance. The Regulation Manager EMEA will provide timely, accurate and robust guidance to T&S on existing and upcoming financial services and physical and financial commodity trading market laws and regulations in EMEA, with support from T&S Legal as needed. The Regulation Manager EMEA will be responsible for: Managing the EMEA Regulatory Risk Team and coordinating activities with the regulatory risk team leads in other regions. Partnering with the Regulatory Operations team to provide subject matter expertise, as needed, on the development and maintenance of Business Activity Statements for each of the T&S businesses (including jurisdictions, legal entities, applicable regulators, licenses and regulations). Partnering with the Regulatory Operations team to support the T&S businesses in understanding and quantifying the impacts of regulatory driven change as part of T&S’s overall regulatory change management processes. Managing T&S regulatory relationships and interactions for the EMEA region, including maintaining T&S’s relationships with financial regulators and / or trading regulators (exchanges) on all non-contentious, routine and customary matters and handling requests for information and other inquiries from trading regulators, in consultation with Legal and Regulatory Affairs as required, in such a way as to ensure they remain open and constructive. Supporting the T&S Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Financial Crime, Regulation and Conduct Risk for Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) engagements Working with Legal and Regulatory Affairs in assessing and responding to proposed commodity trading financial services laws and regulations. Acting as the regional Subject Matter Expert (SME) for regulation, providing guidance on exchange and commodity market trading rules, and the rules of any other class of trading venue of whatever nature (bilateral or multilateral), and on any associated clearing house or transaction reporting repository with support from Legal as needed. Acting as regulation SME for T&S regulatory change implementation projects, as needed. Monitoring external Compliance incidents / events and provide detailed analysis on these to the Head of Financial Crime, Regulation and Conduct Risk, the Compliance Leadership Team and other senior management as required. Monitoring industry practices with respect to global financial regulation. Representing Trading & Supply in trade associations, as appropriate. Supporting External Relations / Government Relations teams on regulatory issues. Collaborating with the T&S Compliance Training team to develop and deliver Regulatory training to the global T&S Compliance team and the T&S business. Supporting the Head of Financial Crime, Regulation and Conduct Risk to provide SME input for responses to any regulator or exchange queries. Partnering as a Regulation SME with other parts of Compliance and other Functions, including Legal, Finance and Audit. Being an active and effective member of the Financial Crime, Regulation and Conduct Risk team and cooperating with the other regions to provide seamless advice on regulations to T&S. Dimensions: 3 direct reports and required to deliver effectively through others. Problem solving: Navigates through complex regulatory problems by understanding the regulation, listening to different views, identifying the critical issues and articulating the way forward. It is expected that the complexity of problems at this level will require over 10 years’ experience in order to understand and assimilate all the competing and conflicting data points and arrive at a solution. The range of problems to be solved at this level is likely to be extremely broad and encompass many different geographical jurisdictions as well as relevant legislation. Stakeholder relationships: Builds relationships with stakeholders at different levels in the organisation whilst maintaining independence and tenacity of approach. Key to success in this role will be the ability to influence and establish relationships with T&S Leadership Team (Senior Executive level) and external regulators. Communications: Communicates complex subject matter clearly and simply and identifies the key messages for stakeholders. Adapts communication style depending on the stakeholder audience and comfortable in having difficult conversations. Issue management: Identifies, tracks and manages issues and works with stakeholders to resolve problems and continuously improve processes and controls. What we need from you The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in providing regulatory advice to a commodities trading organisation. Deep knowledge of global financial and commodity trading regulations, particularly in relation to EMEA. Prior experience of managing others would be beneficial. Understanding and experience of commodity markets. Strong knowledge of Anti Money Laundering Regulation and White-Collar Crime. Strong knowledge of exchange rules relevant to the EMEA region. A sound knowledge of the T&S Businesses (including Crude, Products, Energy, Shipping, Operations and Supply) is desirable. Excellent team player with the ability to work closely with others to deliver results, identify and resolve issues; shares information and keeps team members and management informed. Robust written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels of an organisation, both internally and externally, and engage with a wide range of stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to collaborate and partner with business stakeholders, other compliance team members and other functions. Compliance is a foundation of the way in which T&S does business and therefore integrity is one of the fundamental values that we are seeking as part of the Compliance team. We believe integrity is the hallmark of a person who demonstrates sound moral and ethical principles during their work. 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