Financial Markets Compliance Expert

About the Role:
Santander Holdings USA Inc Careers is seeking a highly skilled Compliance Officer to join our team in New York, NY. This role will provide real-time compliance advisory support to the US Fixed Income & Currencies sales and trading business.

The ideal candidate will have experience in providing regulatory or compliance advise in connection with markets sales and trading activities and functional knowledge of the US Fixed Income trading/regulatory framework.

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring and identifying regulatory trends and developments that may impact business areas/products and advising staff as to how this may impact their current activities;
• Providing real-time advisory services to the fixed income sales and trading businesses;
• Assisting the Business in implementing and documenting various supervisory/control mechanisms in partnership with local and global support functions;
• Interacting with federal and state regulators;
• Developing relationships with key stakeholders within the Bank (e.g., Legal, Risk, First Line Control teams) and building credibility for the Compliance function and enhancing the Compliance brand more widely;

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent;
• Relevant experience of securities preferably in a global investment bank or law firm;
• 5 years financial industry experience within a US regulated financial institution in a similar advisory compliance capacity;
• Strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills;
• Ability to effectively influence others and engage senior stakeholders;
• Ability to make, support, and defend difficult and complex regulatory/compliance decisions in a fast-paced and high-pressured environment.