Total 3 job vacancies by Natwest Markets Plc

Join us as a Compliance Manager

• This role provides an opportunity to support, develop and embed the risk and control mechanisms for the business, independently overseeing and challenging the effective management of risks and controls
• You’ll provide support, advice, MI and escalation to leaders and the overall business on risk management, recommending necessary actions to the management team for establishing and achieving financial objectives
• Broaden your regulatory knowledge and understanding and develop in a strategic, proactive role which supports the management of the bank's risk profile

What you'll do

As a Compliance Manager, you’ll be helping to develop and manage our compliance and conduct policies so that we can make sure they are fit for purpose and meet the relevant regulatory expectations.

You’ll be assessing existing and proposed financial plans and policies to make sure the bank’s financial administration is efficient and effective, as well as identifying areas of concern, bringing significant variances with supporting detail to the attention of management.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Providing regulatory compliance and conduct insight, oversight and challenge in relation to relevant business units, ensuring compliance arrangements, taking into account core FCA principles
• Contributing to the assessment of the conduct strategy to make sure it’s consistent with, and supports, an effective regulatory framework through the provision of advice, guidance and effective reporting
• Providing advice to make sure conflicts of interest and potential market abuse risks are managed appropriately
• Supporting colleagues to provide input on regulatory policy and conduct risk strategy as well as the implementation of the conduct framework
• Helping to identify potential or actual conduct and compliance risks and ensuring the appropriate escalation, remediation and mitigation to manage risks back within appetite
• Advising on cross border regulation

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you'll have experience in a compliance, conduct or risk management role or similar relevant experience. You'll have knowledge of the regulatory environment and its frameworks, and ideally experience of interpreting regulatory rules and regulations. Ideally you will be legally qualified with exposure to APAC cross border regulation.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• The ability to manage and influence business stakeholders
• A strong understanding of conduct risk management principles
• Good knowledge and an understanding of the risk and compliance operating environment, associated policies, procedures and protocols

Join us as a Risk & Control Vice President

• In this key role, you'll be monitoring, reviewing and challenging our risk and control environment as well as helping to manage our financial crime risks in our NatWest Markets APAC business.
• You’ll be put in an oversight role to ensure the service provided by our offshored/ outsourced service provider delivered as per contract.
• You’ll be applying effective risk management and decision-making capability, anticipating and assessing the potential impacts of risk across the bank.
• You will be involved in Regulatory compliance to ensure local regulatory changes are harmonised and incorporated into Enterprise-wide Risk Management framework.
• You’ll gain significant exposure across the function and have the advantage of a varied breadth of work, supporting stakeholders to manage risk for the bank

What you'll do

We'll look to you to deliver service oversight, risk assessments, change risk reviews and scenario analysis to make sure that NatWest Markets' risks and controls are assessed in relation to its risk appetite. You’ll also drive the assessment and implementation of risk framework and policy compliance or change, converting these into appropriate strategies and action plans. You will be the APAC oversight lead for service received by the team. Collaborating with senior stakeholders across the business, you’ll drive forward the development and delivery of remedial action plans where identified risks are considered out of appetite, as well as providing risk leadership and advocacy, to support a culture of proactive and pre-emptive risk management and continuous improvement, and the attainment of operational risk objectives.

Other key elements of the role are to include:

• Liaising with colleagues in the second and third line of defence to make sure that effective risk management is performed front-to-back.
• Overseeing services received from the Financial Crime hub/ Service provider and making sure they are fit for purpose and meet APAC regulatory, risk and legal requirements.
• Supporting the ongoing bank-wide risk and controls assessment of processes and infrastructure, to make sure policies, processes and standards are in place to identify, assess, measure, manage and report operational risks.
• Managing the business’s exposure to operational risk
• Making sure that operational risk management is delivered within the framework as defined by our risk policies and principles.
• Providing leadership on risk management and support management to drive forward a licence to operate culture across the business.
• Acting as a key relationship manager to critical functions

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll need the ability to think strategically, demonstrating thought leadership while translating concepts into effective processes. You’ll also benefit from bringing an analytical and creative approach to resolving complex problems and identifying alternatives, as well as the ability to demonstrate decisiveness and sound judgement on a consistent basis.

On top of this, you’ll bring:

• A clear track record of delivery
• Good knowledge of risk management and a controls environment
• Service oversight experience managing the service provider to the
• Good knowledge of APAC Regulation in particular Singapore and Japan.
• Project management experience, involving complex people, processes and technology issues.
• The ability to influence and conflict resolution at a senior level.
• Excellent understanding of risk management principles.
• Added advantage for Financial Crime certification (CFCCS, CAMLS, CFE).
• Added advantage for Operational Risk certification (CRM, CRMA, ISACA CRISC,CRMP).
• Japanese language proficiency is an added advantage.

Join us as a Credit Sales Associate

• We have an 8 month contract role for a Credit Sales Associate in our Singapore office, focused on the delivery of the broad range of credit products to investors in Australia and NZ
• You’ll take responsibility for the distribution of all primary and secondary credit (bonds, loans and other formats) on behalf of NWM and our 3rd party clients of NWM
• Hone your existing knowledge of credit products and advance your career in this fast-paced role

What you'll do

As a Credit Sales Associate, you’ll be maintaining and strengthening the relationship between NatWest Markets and Australian institutional clients investing primarily in corporate bonds, repos, secured and unsecured loans, real estate loans, infrastructure debt, and who are a mix of asset managers, insurers, banks, pension funds, etc. We’ll expect you to sell any NatWest-led, new issues working closely with Syndicate to ensure a successful syndication. The product delivery also includes clients in Singapore and Hong Kong for private banks and hedge funds.

As well as this, you’ll be:

• Working on the generation of trades for the trading desk and working with trading to buy and sell loan and high yield names which are a focus for the team
• Maintaining regular dialogue with various internal teams to help identify cross-selling opportunities and to make sure the needs of the business are being met
• Supporting and maintain a robust risk control environment
• Implementing a client focus throughout business strategy, communications and client engagement

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll need thorough client knowledge and an understanding of credit market operations. You’ll also need good team working and commercial skills. Along with an extensive track record of client coverage, you’ll have a solid grasp of matching duration constraints, credit rating, and spread and yield targets.

We’ll also be looking for:

• Prior experience in a Rates sales role would be an advantage
• Fluency in English both written and spoken
• The ability to work with a wide variety of clients delivering credit trade idea generation with strong credit content
• Effective multitasking skills, able to navigate client trading activity and information sharing across primary and secondary businesses
• Good knowledge of ESG clients and their needs