Fixed Income Compliance Analyst

Job Description

The Firm is seeking a junior to mid-level Compliance Officer to provide real-time advice and support to front office personnel in a fast paced, high-pressure environment. The Compliance Officer will be responsible for covering the Firm’s various fixed income businesses.

• Provide real-time advice and guidance to trading and sales force on regulatory implications of daily activity.
• Draft/update Firm policies and procedures; perform testing of policies and procedures.
• Regularly update written supervisory procedures.
• Draft memoranda on regulatory matters to be distributed internally.
• Conduct compliance training for new and existing regulations and firm policies.
• Monitor TRACE and MSRB reporting in real-time and circulate performance metrics.
• Conduct electronic communications surveillance and trade reconstructions.
• Draft responses to fixed income-related regulatory inquiries and internal audits.
• Perform on-site branch office inspections and ad hoc investigations.

• 1 to 4 years of experience working in fixed income compliance function of a FINRA registered broker dealer.
• Experience with broker-dealer trading and back-office systems, including Bloomberg Trade Order Management System (TOMS).
• Knowledge of SEC, FINRA, and MSRB regulations applicable to fixed income products, sales and trading.
• Experience with fixed income trade surveillance.
• Working knowledge of major fixed income regulatory topics, including but not limited to trade reporting, markups and markdowns, institutional suitability, Municipal Advisor Rule and communications with the public.
• Familiarity with regulatory initiatives, including best execution, fair pricing, 15c3-5, front running, and debt research.
• Experience with structured products, MBS, private debt offerings a plus.
• Bachelors degree, FINRA Series 7 Required (Series 24 and 53 a plus). Law degree a plus.

• Associate

• Full-time

• Finance

• Investment Banking, Banking, and Financial Services