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.

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

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

Key accountabilities
• Strategic commercial development: develop and execute an effective commercial plan to generate new business and deepen strategic relationships
• Revenue management: develop and maintain revenues (including on a recurring basis) with existing and new clients by leveraging on the value proposition of product /service
• Product development support: support development of new products and maintenance of existing products in line with client requirements;
• Relationship management: make tactical and strategic contacts at the management level through client networks and other channels
• Product & market development: build specific, sector-oriented knowledge for the various products. Identify market developments and translate them into sales activities (outbound)
• Client success: ensure that the service/product is successfully delivered to the client and communicate with the client to fix potential issues. Identify cross-selling possibilities
• Integrated and comprehensive value proposition: interact with internal stakeholders to ensure that the value proposition of your product/service is comprehensive to notably generate cross-selling opportunities.

Your profile•

• At least 10 years previous experience as sales manager
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal
• Good knowledge of IP networks and Trading Venues technologies
• Experience in developing and selling solutions to the Capital Markets (Tier 1 & 2 banks)
• Strong customer-oriented approach
•  Experience in working with Independent Software Vendor, Network/Application Service Providers.

The team is in charge of management and investment of Euronext Clearing liquid resources, identification and contracts agreement with eligible counterparties, data reporting to company Top management and Authorities.

Lead the Group’s financial planning, budgeting and forecasting process, including leading the Group’s stress testing processes from a Finance perspective. Offer solutions based on economic trends and information provided by supporting business accountants. Set the strategic agenda and oversee actors working in multiple finance disciplines (among which Accounting and Reporting, Business Performance, Finance System and Project, Mergers and Acquisitions, Investor Relations, Treasury). 

Key accountabilities 

The FP&A intern role will cover a wide range of analytical tasks, playing a key role in supporting the Group's financial planning and analysis function, such as: 

• Support the preparation of monthly and quarterly financial reporting and forecasting 
• Analyze of Euronext financial performance and work with division heads to achieve strategic growth targets. 
• Review actual organizational performance against budgets, identify differences, produce analysis and provides recommendations. 
• Support the financial team in the annual budgeting process 
• Supporting develop financial model and dashboard  
• Assisting with ad-hoc analysis and projects, as required 
• Coordinate the financial analysis needs of the company within country- or cross-business line segments. 
• Collaborate with other departments to ensure accurate budgeting and forecasting 

Your profile 

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field  
• Strong ability to manage projects and work collaboratively and productively with other departments to obtain a successful result. 
• Well organized with strong problem solving, conflict resolution and analytical skills. 
• Strong speaking and writing skills, including the ability to produce effective presentations for decision making. 
• Persuasive and able to influence stakeholders at all levels. 
• Proficient in MS tools usage (e.g., Excel, Access, SharePoint) and VBA programming is a plus. 
• Fluent in English; while French, Italian and Deutch are a plus 

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. 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.  

Borsa Italiana Spa, the company responsible for the organization and management of Italian financial markets, provides an internship opportunity in Monte Titoli, leading provider of efficient and secure financial market post-trade services, across pre-settlement, settlement, custody and asset services. The internship is within the Local and international settlement team. 
 

Monte Titoli Settlement area is in charge of controlling and monitoring the correct functioning of the settlement activities throughout the entire chain from trading platforms and clients systems to settlement platforms including the possible interaction with the clearing systems. 
 

It is also responsible for the relevant Settlement documentation describing the Settlement services and for the enhancements and development of the service. For this purpose there is a strong interaction with domestic and European institutions and supervising authorities. 

 
Key Responsibilities 

The resource will be involved on the following activities: 

• Support the management of Settlement services 
• Support operational processes 
• Cooperation with business owner for testing activities 
• Collaboration with Product and Project Areas for the individuation of the related technical and functional procedures implications 

The ideal candidate has: 

• Master’s Degree in Economics or Finance 
• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills 
• Team working attitude 
• Good organizational skills 
• Precision 
• Fluent English