ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for our first dedicated Compliance Officer. You report directly to the CEO, with a direct escalation route to our Supervisory Board and to the regulator.

Our governance and control framework has been designed and reviewed. What it needs now is someone to put it into practice: the registers, the access decisions, the periodic checks, the evidence behind them and the reporting that follows.

It is a role for someone who wants to see the whole picture of how a regulated market operates, and who would rather build that picture than inherit it.

Your responsibilities

Compliance and regulatory

• Own and develop our compliance framework: policies, procedures, market rulebook and code of conduct.

• Act as our main contact for regulators and competent authorities, covering license matters, audits, inspections and regulatory reporting, and translate new regulatory developments affecting NEMOs and power trading venues into internal requirements.

• Maintain the compliance monitoring plan and the conflict of interest register, and report findings and remediation to the CEO and the Supervisory Board.

• Safeguard non-discriminatory treatment of our market participants, including the annual review confirming that everyone receives equal commercial and technical terms.

• Establish and administer the Exchange Council, our market participant body, and record its input on material changes to trading rules and systems.

• Design and deliver compliance training, and set the due diligence standard for participant onboarding.

Information handling and data

• Own how confidential, market-sensitive and participant-specific information is protected, and make sure the controls around it work in practice.

• Decide who is admitted to sensitive information and on what terms, and keep that picture accurate as people, contracts and systems change.

• Own our data governance and data protection framework, including how data is classified, what can be released, and how it is retained and shared.

• Own the register of suspected breaches, lead investigations through to closure, and support external audits and independent assurance on our controls, information security and data handling.

Legal

• Advise the business on legal questions arising from new products, new markets and commercial arrangements.

• Draft and review participant agreements, vendor contracts, NDAs and other commercial documentation.

• Coordinate with external counsel where specialist input is needed, and support corporate governance and Board documentation.

ABOUT YOU

• 7+ years in compliance, regulatory affairs, legal or assurance within a regulated environment. Consultancy, a law firm, financial services, market infrastructure or a regulator.

• You know what it takes to run a control framework yourself and can make one actually operate rather than only exist on paper. You are comfortable with registers, evidence and documentation, and with testing whether something is genuinely being followed.

• A legal background, or the confidence to handle commercial and corporate questions with external counsel behind you.

• The judgment to tell the difference between a rule being broken and a situation that merely looks unusual.

• Willingness to tell the business no, and the skill to keep the relationship afterwards.

• You are comfortable making calls on your own judgment as a one-person function, and know when a question needs external expertise.

• Clear writing. Much of what you produce is something a regulator or a Board will rely on.

• Fluency in English, ability to work from our Amsterdam office, and a valid work permit for the European Union.

Nice to have:

• Experience at a trading venue, exchange, broker, energy company or regulator.

• Experience setting up a compliance function rather than running an established one.

• Knowledge of data protection, data classification or information security in a regulated setting.

• Familiarity with a market abuse framework such as REMIT or the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR).

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