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Join us as an Technical Quality Assurance (TQA) Specialist.

Are you ready to shape the future of capital markets? We’re seeking a results-driven TQA Specialist to join our team in Milano.

The mission will consist in the implementation of automated Technical (Performances, Capacity, High Availability) tests.

You will be ccountable for the test plan coverage from technical perspective, its execution, including monitoring and reporting for a set of Non-Functional Requirements.

You will be responsible for:

• Definition, implementation and monitoring of the test plan
• Contribution to the automation test strategy
• Report the quality of the software under test
• Contribute for creating and maintaining an automatic test suit Platform Deliver automated test cases for each Non-Functional Requirement under test
• Provide clear, accurate, regular reporting through KPI’s related to the testing activities (design, execution, automation, regression)
• Understand our QA implementation and be a contributor for its improvement’s cross teams

About Euronext

Euronext is the leading European capital market infrastructure, offering trusted and sustainable markets to drive innovation and growth. Euronext operates regulated exchanges in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal, covering regulated equity and derivatives markets, a leading electronic fixed income trading platform, and the largest centre for debt and funds listings globally.

The Group offers a wide range of products including equities, FX, ETFs, bonds, derivatives, commodities, and advanced data services. It provides clearing through Euronext Clearing and custody and settlement services via Euronext Securities in Denmark, Italy, Norway, and Portugal. Euronext also offers technology, corporate, and data services to third parties.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or any other legally protected factor. We value the unique talents of all our people, who come from diverse backgrounds with different personal experiences and points of view and we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect.

Join us as a Corporate Actions Trainee!

Are you ready to shape the future of capital markets?

We are looking for a Corporate Actions Trainee to join the our Business Operations Team. The position will be based in Porto and you will report to the Business Operations Readiness Manager .

Job summary

Euronext Securities Porto is developing and implementing a new Corporate Actions platform. Therefore, is looking for a Trainee that:

• Contributes to the development and implementation of the new Corporate Actions platform.
• Gives support to the tests of the new Corporate Actions platform.
• Supports the processing of Corporate Actions in production.

Key Accountabilities

As a Corporate Actions Trainee, you will:

• Learn and build the knowledge and network related to Corporate Actions, as well as the entire Post Trade workflow, in order to develop your autonomy through:
  • Learning-by-doing: performing the functional tests of the new Corporate Actions platform, operational acceptance tests, client acceptance tests
  • Learning market practices and specificities of the Euronext CSDs and meeting local business experts
  • Supporting the processing of Corporate Actions in production
  • Building the cross-CSD network for Operational Excellence of the corporate actions team
  • Prepares documentation with operational procedures

• Contribute to the development and implementation of the new Corporate Actions platform through:
  • Contributing to scope definition of future delivery
  • Supporting client readiness during testing and migration
  • Implementing efficient and effective operational processes to ensure flawless service delivery and business resilience
  • Contributing to Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) definition to measure internal service delivery performance (gather and analyse data on Operational & Client acceptance)
  • Identifying optimisation opportunities and implementing operational improvement measures
  • Fulfilling all compliance requirements
  • Engaging with internal and external stakeholders to build trustful collaborations

Profile and Skills

Euronext is looking at the following profile:

• Knowledge of Capital markets and applicable legislation
• Knowledge of English language (oral and written)
• Familiar with PC’s and standard office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)
• Key skills:  Responsible, Accuracy, Detail oriented, Efficient, Excellent time management and Organization skills, Interpersonal and Communication skills, Teamwork, Tasks oriented, Customer Focus
• University Degree in Management, Economics or equivalent (preferable)

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About Euronext

Euronext is the leading pan-European market infrastructure, connecting European economies to global capital markets, to accelerate innovation and sustainable growth. It operates regulated exchanges in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal.

With close to 1,959 listed issuers and around €6.9 trillion in market capitalisation as of end December 2021, it has an unmatched blue chip franchise and a strong diverse domestic and international client base. Euronext operates regulated and transparent equity and derivatives markets, one of Europe’s leading electronic fixed income trading markets and is the largest centre for debt and funds listings in the world. Its total product offering includes Equities, FX, Exchange Traded Funds, Warrants & Certificates, Bonds, Derivatives, Commodities and Indices.

The Group provides a multi-asset clearing house through Euronext Clearing, and custody and settlement services through Euronext Securities central securities depositories in Denmark, Italy, Norway and Portugal. Euronext also leverages its expertise in running markets by providing technology and managed services to third parties. In addition to its main regulated market, it also operates a number of junior markets, simplifying access to listing for SMEs.

For the latest news, go to euronext.com or follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/euronext) and LinkedIn (linkedin.com/euronext).

Euronext Securities Porto

Euronext Securities Porto is the leading entity in Portugal in post-trade services, offering integrated and flexible solutions at European level, operating as the Custody and Settlement Central Securities Depository (CSD), belonging to the EURONEXT Group and being compliant with:

• CSD Regulation (CSDR);
• The Portuguese Legislation on Capital Markets;
• The rules of the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM).

Euronext Securities Porto uses the most stringent international service and security standards and was one of the first CSDs to join the European settlement platform TARGET2-Securities and to obtain authorization to operate as a CSD in the context of CSDR, offering a wide set of Services, namely Custody and Settlement to a broad Customer base.

Key accountabilities

• Uploading selected research, with the aid of Generative AI to summarise research, manually applying relevant topic tags, and editing summaries.
• Collection, analysis, and dissemination of analytics of platform usage by clients to multiple parties: research providers, account management and research insights teams.
• Format and convert research items into compatible file types, ensuring proper layout, formatting, and accuracy, and edit documents as needed to meet publication or organizational standards.
• Responding to client platform requests for research, which involves compiling relevant research related to those requests and sending to clients in a timely manner.
• Research provider outreach/scouting, aiding in pitches to providers to join Substantive platform, and maintenance of Substantive research provider database
• Maintenance of Research Insights platform to ensure regular research updates to all research themes across platform and reporting to the team
• Market Data support: Data delivery dashboard maintenance, analysing invoices and contracts to identify trends in payments.

Your profile

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree (preferred) in Finance/Economics
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, in order to manage extensive databases. Some knowledge and experience with generative AI a benefit as well.
• Strong communication and analytical skills: An ability to understand key market trends across financial markets, and to quickly assess relevant analysis in a timely manner.
• Demonstrate ability to work in a fast-paced, ever changing, highly collaborative environment.
• Attention to detail: Ensuring accuracy and consistency in analysis of investment research content, based on specified criteria set out by Research Insights team
• Very good understanding of macroeconomics, and more broadly their impact on financial markets and asset prices.

Added Advantage

• Experience working in the investment research industry (Whether as an analyst, supervisory analyst or research assistant to an analyst)

Key accountabilities

• Ensure clearing services are delivered accurately, on time and within specified standards of quality, those services include daily margins and default funds payments, collateral deposits and returns, expiries of derivatives contracts, members default management, projects, testing of new services
• Ensure settlement services are delivered accurately, on time and within specified standards of quality, this services include monitoring and management of settlement activities, adjustment management for corporate actions, buy in/sell out management, members default management
• Applies expertise to resolve complex and escalated operational issues in an accurate and timely manner, ensuring adherence to KPIs, agreed contracts and internal requirements
• Provide client support in liaison with Sales and Membership teams and escalate client queries when necessary
• Contribute to operation enhancement projects to streamline workflow and provide better support to frontline business units
• Drives continuous improvement of process and assess and select improvement opportunities that provide long-term value and minimize operational risks

Your profile

• Significant experience in Operations, Risk positions and Clearing Operation in the financial markets industry
• Strong prior knowledge in Clearing products and Settlement operations
• Account management
• Strong analytical mindset and problem-solving attitude
• Excellent client relationship
• Able to work accurately and effectively under pressure
• Strong time management skills required to meet the many internal and external deadlines
• Good supervisory skills
• Fluent in Italian and English; while French is a plus

Key accountabilities
• Analyze specific team testing requirements, execute and automate report on expected test cases to meet the quality department’s objectives
• Create and execute component-level test plans and test cases
• Actively contributes to implementation of all core trading applications used for running Euronext markets
• Identify gaps and inconsistences based on product requirements and specifications
• Coordinates with other quality assurance units to meet company quality standards

Your profile
• Experience working in a global quality assurance team
• Experience with the Agile project management methodology a plus
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Flexibility and ability to work in environments with changing priorities
• Ability to interface with different project teams from the IT side to the business side

Euronext Clearing provides an internship opportunity within Membership & Onboarding Team. The team is in charge of the admission to the Clearing and Guarantee System managed by CC&G, the monitoring of the membership requirements and the relationship and account management of clients. The team is also in charge of implementing technological solutions and new products with respect to the development of all CC&G products and services.

Key Responsibilities

The resource will support the team in activities like:

• Participating in project activities in order to define new services;
• Participating in project activities in order to improve the administrative management of Membership’s practices
• Periodic monitoring of membership requirements, and client support for membership's area of competence;
• Managing new admissions, exclusions, qualify and participant’s admission changes, interfacing with the clients during all the steps of the process and helping them in draw up a contract;
• Monitoring the maintenance of membership requirements according to timelines established by Euronext Clearing’s Rules and Regulations;
• Preparing letters which will be sent to participants after admissions, client profiles changes, exclusions

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate has: 

• Master’s Degree in Economics or Finance;
• Good knowledge of Financial Markets;
• Fluency in both spoken and written English;
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office Package;
• Team working attitude and Good communication skills;

Key accountabilities
• Act as the central point of contact of an allocated group of clients on operational matters and ensure an efficient incident management process and escalate issues in an accurate and timely manner
• Provide client support and follow up all questions or issues until resolution, regularly inform the client of progresses notably when in depth analysis is needed
• Ensure compliance with Service Level Agreements and strengthen the quality framework to meet quantitative and qualitative objectives.
• Drives continuous improvement of process and practices in Client Services,

-Act as a communication officer

• Contribute to client support role in projects, manage communications and client readiness, support clients on external tests.

Your profile
• Strong financial background and a good knowledge / understanding of the various activities of Euronext direct & indirect client base.
• Prior relevant Client Services experience
• High standards of service delivery to clients and ability to create strong relationships
• Strong analytical and organization skills and problem-solving attitude
• Strong verbal communication skills both internally and externally

Key accountabilities
• Manage and update referential concerning Issuers and their financial instruments listed on Cash, Markets, on a daily basis
• Edit market notices for the admission of new shares and manage the listing process for the admission Italian Government bonds, stock warrants, convertible bonds and additional categories of shares
• Manage CAs concerning ETP, Fixed Income, Securitised Derivatives and GEM/EuroTLX-Equity: support to issuers/specialists in implementing them and ensuring that CAs are properly operated on our Markets
• Contribute to relevant changes of Markets Rules relevant for issuers. Suggest and support the implementation of IT solutions to facilitate the information flow from issuers to the Markets, taking into consideration the marketability of this information.
• Interact with Issuers, Listing Agents, Growth Advisors and Specialists, to advise them on specific rules application, verify their compliance and managing the related enforcement
• Create market notices (via ENX tools) and BITA announcements (also categorised via MIR in order to support the LCS supervision activity and improve the marketability of these data)
• Monitor the information disseminated by Issuers and media in order to: assess if a suspension, a restoration or delisting of listed securities is required - in coordination with Local Authorities
• Contribute to the definition and update of the Italian Corporate Governance Code (approval, Q&A and yearly report)
• Manage the listing process, on respective markets and for respective tools, ensuring the quality of the market and the compliance with the applicable rules*
• Support issuers in implementing their corporate actions and ensure adjustment for a Corporate Actions is performed in accordance with the Rules and Corporate Action Policy*
• Contribute to projects to implement new practices and management systems and take part in business acceptance tests of new/updated functionalit.*

*not applicable for Borsa Italiana LCS Team

Your profile
• Previous relevant corporate actions experience.
• Working knowledge of database management and tools programming: MS office, Macros, VBA Access and SQL.
• Proven analytic, synthesis and reporting skills.
• Good understanding of Financial markets, markets structures and their evolution from a business, competition, regulatory and technological perspective.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Fluent in English; while French, Italian and Deutch are a plus

Euronext

Euronext is the leading pan-European market infrastructure, shaping capital markets for future generations. Its mission is to connect European economies to global capital markets, to accelerate innovation and sustainable growth. Euronext is located in 18 countries across Europe, US and Asia, with regulated exchanges in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal. The group has expanded organically and externally, with a revenue growing from €458 million in 2014 to €1.5 billion in 2022, with 2,200 employees and 55 nationalities.

The Group Head of Cyber Defence is responsible for leading and managing the organization’s cyber defence strategy and operations. This role involves overseeing the development and implementation of robust security measures to protect the company’s digital assets, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and responding to security incidents. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in cyber security, strong leadership skills, and the ability to work collaboratively across various departments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute a comprehensive cyber defence strategy aligned with the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Team Management: Lead and mentor a team of cyber security professionals, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional development.
• Threat and Vulnerability Management: Oversee the identification, assessment, and mitigation of cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
• Incident Response: Coordinate and manage the response to security incidents, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on business operations.
• Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards related to cyber security.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other departments, including IT, legal, and compliance, to ensure a cohesive approach to cyber security.
• Technology Oversight: Evaluate and implement advanced security technologies and tools to enhance the organization’s cyber defence capabilities.
• Reporting: Provide regular updates and reports to senior management on the status of the organization’s cyber security posture

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field. A master’s degree or relevant certifications (e.g., OSCP, CISSP, CISM) is preferred.
• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience in cyber security, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Skills:
  • Strong understanding of cyber security principles, practices, and technologies.
  • Excellent leadership and team management skills.
  • Ability to think strategically and develop long-term plans.
  • Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or any other legally protected factor. We value the unique talents of all our people, who come from diverse backgrounds with different personal experiences and points of view and we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect.