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The Commodities Expansion Manager will lead the expansion of the product range of the commodities franchise, from inception to product launch.
Euronext is entering a new strategic cycle with high ambitions for its commodities franchise, which has been historically focused on agricultural products. Euronext plans to leverage the strength of its integrated clearing house, Euronext Clearing. The Commodities Expansion Manager will seize on this enhanced value proposition to develop new products [for the existing franchise, as well as] and enter into new commodity markets. Identifying the most relevant opportunities, creating a compelling value proposition, defining the best go-to-market and aligning all stakeholders to deliver these opportunities will be the at the core of the new joiner’s responsibilities.

The Commodities Expansion Manager manager will have the following accountabilities:

• Generate new business opportunities based on new commodity products, be they soft or hard commodities, through systematic market analyses, stakeholder engagement and customer feedback.

• Take accountability for their delivery, actively engaging with market participants, regulatory authorities and/or third party service providers, from the beginning of the project till go live.

• Lead coordination of development and launch efforts through close collaboration with IT, Legal & Market Regulation, Sales, Operations, Post-Trade, Corporate Communication, and Marketing.

• Design and implement a framework for regular, iterative business expansion, from idea generation to execution, go-to-market, education and ad-hoc support until the new products reach sufficient liquidity.

• Maintain viability of existing products by evaluating the impact of market trends, engaging with clients to gain insight and feedbacks. Identify and design viable product extensions and modifications when required.

• Develop close relationships with IT, post-trade and market operations teams to develop an intimate knowledge of the functioning of Euronext markets, and share insights within the commodities teams and to interested market participants.

• Maintain up to date industry and competitor knowledge to identify and develop the Company’s unique selling propositions and differentiators.

• Leverage his/her network to solicit feedback from industry participants through trade calls, surveys, industry events, trade shows and conferences. Report back intelligence to relevant stakeholders.

Knowledge, skills and experience required

• Graduate degree in Finance, Economics, Business or related fields.
• 3 to 5 years working in the capital markets or commodity trading industry, or in the trading/brokerage department of an industrial player.
• Broad knowledge of financial markets, and robust knowledge of the European listed commodity markets and platforms. Robust knowledge and awareness of some underlying commodity markets (e.g., agriculture, metals, mining, oil & gas, carbon).
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills.
• Entrepreneurial spirit, creativity and drive to imagine new solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to display key findings in succinct manner.
• Ability to take the leadership of a project and interact with various stakeholders. Strong interpersonal skills with ability to communicate effectively, and a proven history of working in a team environment.
• Results driven, pro-active mentality with a strong appetite to challenge the status quo.

Euronext - the leading pan-european financial market infrastructure

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 nearly 1,900 listed issuers and around €6.5 trillion in market capitalisation as of end June 2024, 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.

Join our vibrant Communications & IR team

The Brand & Content team is part of the wider Communications & IR team, which provides support to all of Euronext’s businesses including Trading, Listings, Information Services, Post Trade (clearing and settlement) and Corporate Services. The Brand & Content team looks after Euronext’s brand and reputation. The team creates content that supports the Group’s strategy and coordinates different types of communications content across the company.

Key Accountabilities for this role

•    Editorial review

•  Work with the editorial & content manager to review texts in English written by both native and non-native speakers to ensure they are in keeping with Euronext house style and messaging, and have the highest quality of English – including a rigorous proofread to avoid errors, bad grammar, but also to improve understanding and ensure texts are easy to read and concise. 

• Help with training the marketing teams to respect the Euronext style guidelines and ensure the consistency of the Euronext tone of voice and persona with our customers

•    Digital content creation

• Create online articles, working with the relevant business areas and specialists, with some writing as necessary, as well as sourcing related images

• Work with the web & digital team to create product articles for the product areas of the website, working with the relevant product and marketing managers, with some writing as necessary, as well as sourcing related images

• Help to optimise web content and apply the Euronext Writing for the Web and SEO guidelines to any content destined for the website, ensuring key messages reach their desired audience    

•    Creating content to increase Euronext’s brand recognition and reputation

• Support the Brand & Content team with the development and launch of content campaigns (print and digital): developing editorial content for different channels (videos, infographics, brochures, etc.) and liaising with our design agency 

• Manage the content roadmap for the News & Insights section of the euronext.com website, liaising with the business to research ideas, suggesting potential articles, managing the pre-approval and approval processes

• Identify and write submissions for key industry awards to raise Euronext’s profile within the financial markets ecosystem

Your profile and skills

• 3+ years as a Communications/Marketing specialist with experience in written content creation across multiple channels (website, social, media) and in various formats

• Exceptional writing, editing, and proofreading skills in English and rigorous attention to detail and grammar.

• Able to review/edit content produced by others and give professional feedback

• Responsive, proactive and committed team player, able to work on crisis communications

• Innovative thinker with strong ability to digest and develop B2B technical content in various creative formats

• Excellent communication/organisational/project management skills, able to work in a matrix/international environment and maintain excellent in-person and virtual relationships with internal colleagues at all levels and external stakeholders

• Native English speaker is a must for this role. Other European language(s) would be a plus (French, Italian, Dutch)

Key accountabilities

Provide innovative solutions to enable industrialization, improve productivity, efficiency and time-to-market

Design and manage monitoring and logging tools

Manage infrastructures in cloud with infrastructure as code (IaC) , maintain, evolve and enhance the current infrastructure

Support the business during the day by day activities and issues on our services to run best in class services minimizing the incident

Proactively participate and drive the organizational processes (Incident management, Change management, Security fixes, Improvement processes…)

Your profile

• AWS framework good knowledge and experience (ECS, EC2, Cloudfront/WAF, Glue/Athena…)
• Cloudformation/terraform skills
• Experience with Jenkins pipelines / Git for repository
• Knowledge of Microservice architecture (containerized environment – ECS, Docker)
• Linux/Unix knowledge and Networking concept and troubleshooting is required
• Good experience in monitoring tools usage and setting up is required (preferred Datadog, Coralogix)
• Experience with ticket management tools (Jira preferred)
• Knowledge of the application support concept and good experience managing it in very demanding environment and landscape

• Good experience in the analysis of web platforms issues (client session, APM monitoring, RUM monitoring...) in complex infrastructures/scenarios

  Availability to support service up and running 7x24

  • Experience in process improvement, re-engineering and root-cause analysis/resolution
• • Flexibility and ability to work in environments with changing priorities

The Commodities team of Euronext is looking to expand his team to fuel the growth of the franchise.

The Commodities Trading Product Owner will identify, own and shepherd rules, systems and features improvements that concern commodity trading at Euronext. The scope of his/her responsibilities will include the entire trading experience, including technical onboarding, trading rules and behaviour, market surveillance rules and systems, and communication with Clearing systems.

 

The product owner will identify new features or improvements to Euronext commodity trading, based on client and stakeholder feedback, competitive analysis and internal efficiency opportunities. The product owner will hence need to become deeply familiar with the features, rules and also the underpinning architecture of Euronext trading system, centered around our proprietary model Optiq: how it is built, what is possible, what is difficult.

Once improvements or new features have been identified, the product owner will build, if necessary, the associated business cases. He will actively engage with market participants, regulatory authorities and/or third party service providers, from the beginning of the project till go live. He will also take accountability for the delivery of the project, in partnership with a project manager and through close collaboration with IT, Legal & Market Regulation, Operations, Post-Trade.

The product owner will sit within the Commodities business team, engaging with clients and other stakeholders. He/She will act as a bridge between business and clients needs on the one hand, and internal stakeholders on the other hand: technology, market surveillance, legal and regulation.
 

Knowledge, skills and experience required

• Graduate degree in Finance, Business, Information Technology or related fields.

• 3 to 5 years working in the capital markets or commodity trading industry, or in the IT department of large banks, trading firms or financial infrastructures.

• General knowledge of financial markets, including price formation models, and broad knowledge of European commodity markets and platforms.

• Awareness and interest about the inner workings of trading systems in the financial industry: architecture, limitations and constraints.

• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with high attention to details.

• Entrepreneurial spirit, creativity and drive to imagine new solutions.

• Good written communication skills, and ability to display key findings in succinct manner.

• Ability to take the leadership of a project and interact with various stakeholders. Good interpersonal skills with ability to communicate effectively, and a proven history of working in a team environment.

• Results driven, pro-active mentality.

The main activities the team oversees are the onboarding of trading member for all Borsa Italiana markets (equity, derivatives and fixed income) following the relevant due diligence assessment; annual risk based due diligence and KYC; management of member profile changes to ensure ongoing compliance with regulation; service provider accreditation and providing relevant support and membership insight to Products and Sales teams’ initiatives to enhance and launch new trading products, including rules, pricing or contract changes

To achieve the above goals the Membership Team works closely with clients and a number of other group teams and uses a customer web interface and a specific tool, Compliance Catalyst, to perform the KYC.

The team is also directly involved in projects linked to the integration with Euronext Group and with the relevant impact that these have on the processes, procedures, contracts, regulation, systems related to the membership framework.

To this extent the membership team is also involved in the delivery of the new Group Portal, MYEuronext, a strategic tool to enhance member management and self-service capabilities, overseeing the membership business requirements, testing phase and clients transition from the old portal to the new one.

Key Responsibilities 
The resource will support the team for administrative purposes and the implementation of new portal MyEuronext for the processes and procedures falling within the scope of the Membership activity, particularly with regards to the testing phase. 

Candidate Profile / Key Skills
The ideal candidate has:
•    Degree in Economics/Finance
•    Fluency in both spoken and written English
•    Knowledge of Microsoft Office Package
•    Team working attitude
•    Organizational skills
 

Euronext Amsterdam

Key accountabilities

Proactive client and account management of a selection of current issuers and create cross sell opportunities for Corporate Services and Bond listings;

• Managing all business development and generation of new business opportunities, including IPO’s, (ESG) bond offerings and related instruments, supported  by the Head of Listing Benelux and CEO Euronext Amsterdam;

• Project management and execution of the IPO Days, IPO-ready programs in Amsterdam and Germany/CEE and the development of local initiatives that relate to our Tech Leaders segment;

• Co-development and execution a business strategy for the cross-border/international listings;

• Building and development a relevant network with all key business partners of our Listing department in Amsterdam;

• Representing Euronext Amsterdam locally and stand visible in the relevant networks. Further improve visibility and the profile of Euronext in the Netherlands.

Additionally, the Listing Director will work in close collaboration with our global Primary Markets team, as well as with the relevant departments within Euronext Amsterdam and representatives of other departments including Euronext Securities.

Plenty local and international travel is expected and active participation in the sales and networking events within Euronext Group.

Your profile

• At least 7 years relevant client-facing and commercial experience required.

• Understanding & experience of and interest in the dynamics and mechanics of the European capital market is essential.

• Knowledge & expertise in capital markets, products/services across listing value chain, as well as trends in post-trade.

• Successful track record of performance in equity/debt sales, investor relations and/or ECM advisory.

• Proven track record of commercial relationship management on senior management or C-level.

• Strong project management capabilities and skills.

• Good communication & presenting skills (clear & confident to maximize impact).

• Strong team orientation with a transparent and collaborative approach to build links and relationships across the organization to enable the best commercial outcome for Euronext.

• Proactive & results orientated: impresses with speed of delivery and quality of response & inspires others with their enthusiasm.

• University degree or bachelor degree combined with relevant working experience. 

• Fluency in English and Dutch required.

Key accountabilities
• Provide innovative solutions to enable industrialization, improve productivity, efficiency and time-to-market
• Monitor and track the performance and capacity of environments
• Use expertise in IT project delivery (project management, architecture, design, development and operations) to deliver critical in-house solutions required by IT and Business departments
• Participate in team discussions to design the best architecture for our applications
• Coordinate process improvement, re-engineering and solutions designs to respond to the development identified during reviews.
• Ensure code and design system architectures are developed to define user compatibility
• Debug and optimize code, automate tasks and repeated manual work
• Review and update existing documentation

Your profile
• In-depth technical knowledge in one or several of the following field of expertise:
Security knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems and supporting infrastructure elements,
DevOps (implementation of Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment),
IaaS production environments (systems, networks, End User Computing…)
Infrastructure as code approach (Terraform and CloudFormation)
CI /CD pipelines and GitLab CI/CD, Sonarqube, etc.
• Languages/frameworks: Java, Python, JavaScript, Node, Angular, React, SQL, Bash/Shell.
• Experience in managing and delivering software or infrastructure development projects
• Experience in process improvement, re-engineering and root-cause analysis/resolution
• Flexibility and ability to work in environments with changing priorities

Euronext is a pan-European exchange group offering a diverse range of products and services and combining transparent and efficient equity, fixed income securities and derivatives markets in Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, London and Paris. Euronext’s businesses comprise listing, cash trading, derivatives trading, market data and indices, post-trade and market solutions & other.

Within the IT department, the candidate will join the IT Governance & Cybersecurity team, which is responsible to ensure that Information Security and Business Continuity Management Systems operate effectively and continue to be compliant with relevant regulatory requirements, as well as voluntary best practices and standards that add a further badge of excellence among industry players.

The role will require the individual to support the team in carrying out its activities, especially in the field of Information Security, Business Continuity, so that meets its security objectives by identifying, protecting, detecting, and responding to cyber threats against its technology.

Main activities:

• Performs ongoing monitoring of risk, identifying areas of risk exposures and escalating changes as appropriate
• Analyses data to provide regular reports / presentations for internal and external stakeholders
• Supports the team to fulfil internal and external audits requests
• Supports the team to deliver projects and activities regarding Risk, Information Security and Business Continuity.

Skills required to be successful in the role:

• BSc in Cybersecurity preferred
• BSc Computer Science, Economics, International affairs, Law or equivalent
• Knowledge and passion about IT and Information Security
• Fluency in both spoken and written English
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office Package (Word, Power Point, Excel, Outlook)
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Precision and attention to details
• Ability to synthesize and summarize
• Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Knowledge of IT Governance, Information Security and Business Continuity frameworks (e.g. ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 22301, NIST and CIS Framework, ITIL, etc.) would be a plus
• Knowledge of GDPR, DORA, NIS/NIS2, ACN regulation would be a plus
• Financial Services experience / knowledge would be a plus

We are looking for a skilled and experienced Test Analyst to join our team that designs trading platforms in the Fixed Income area. Excellent analytical skills, curiosity, availability, result orientation and a strong motivation are required. He/she will be responsible for designing and executing manual test cases, as well as supporting and managing automated test cases.

Key Responsibilities:

• Test the functionalities, usability, security and performance of financial software applications, platforms and systems
• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, test scripts and test reports for various types of testing, such as functional, regression, integration, performance, failover and user acceptance testing
• Identify, report and track defects, issues and risks related to the quality of the software products or services
• Collaborate with business analysts, software developers, product managers, system managers and other stakeholders to ensure the quality of the software products or services throughout the software development life cycle
• Review and validate the requirements, feasibility studies, functional specifications and technical design documents of the software products or services
• Apply quality assurance best practices, standards, methodologies and tools to ensure the quality of the software products or services
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, technologies and regulations in the financial market industry and the quality assurance field.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Quality Assurance engineer
• High school technical degree or BSc (preferred in Computing Science or related field)
• Good knowledge of the English language
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, curiosity, availability, result orientation and strong motivation
• Ability to work autonomously as well as a part of a team thanks to excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• The knowledge of financial markets, FIX Protocol (at least 4.4, 5.0 SP2) and automated test tools is a plus

Key accountabilities:

• Understand our QA implementation and be a contributor for its improvements cross teams
• Contribute to the definition, implementation and monitoring of the company’s quality standards
• Risk management
• Review functional specification, being the first customer of our software
• Write Test plans, strategies and reports
• Contribute for creating and maintaining an automatic test suit
• Report the quality of the software under test
• Be clear, accurate and regular when reporting through KPIs related to the projects
• Evangelist of Quality assurance best practices, training the rest of the team (not just QA) on such standards
• Be part of the team: the project team and the QA team cross location
• Functional and technical writer of Data Systems documentation
• Test applications running in AWS infrastructure
• Contribute to the management of team daily operations (updating boards, reviewing release scopes, creating useful dashboards)

Euronext is looking at the following profile:

• Well balanced functional and automation QA
• Solid Knowledge in software quality assurance (white box and black box testing)
• Experienced in writing of Test Cases, test plans and test reports
• Ability to review requirements, functional and technical specification
• Gap analysis contributor
• Strong problem solving mindset: keep quality on top while considering the project’s strict timelines
• Capable of working in an ever changing environment
• Strong leadership skills
• Identify problems and propose solutions
• Problem solving mindset / strong production awareness
• Knowledge with SQL
• API testing (using application such postman)
• Familiarity with AWS
• Use of Bug-tracking tool like Jira and its functionalities (x-ray)
• Nice to have:
  • Knowledge in AWS services
    • Transfer Family
    • Redshift
    • S3
    • Lambda
    • Step functions
  • Kafka knowledge
  • Python basics