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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.

With close to 1,900 listed issuers and around €6.5 trillion in market capitalisation as of end June 2023, it has an unmatched blue-chip franchise and a strong diverse domestic and international client base, as well as a large Tech companies community, Euronext Tech Leaders. Euronext closely accompanies corporates thanks to its pre-IPO programmes and a full suite of innovative corporate services. Euronext operates regulated and transparent equity and derivatives markets, one of Europe’s leading electronic fixed income trading markets and is the largest center for debt and funds listings in the world. Its total product offering includes Equities, FX, Exchange Traded Funds, Warrants & Certificates, Bonds, Power, Derivatives, Commodities, Advanced Data Services and Indices.

The Group provides a European 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, corporate and data services to third parties.

Euronext is engaged in an ambitious ESG policy, translated into its “Fit for 1.5°” commitment to net zero, supported by SBTI approved targets.

Euronext Corporate Services

Euronext Corporate Services, is at the core of Euronext’s Growth for Impact 2024 strategy. It has delivered €46m of revenue in 2023, growing +12% vs 2022, being one of the most important growth engine of the Group.

Euronext Corporate Services already serves more than 4,500+ clients including over 1000 listed companies, private companies, advisors and public organisations. Clients are located across all Euronext markets (Belgium, France, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway Portugal,) but also beyond (e.g. UK, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Spain).

The team is composed of over 170 professionals across Europe. They help listed companies make the most effective use of capital markets, and support private and public organisations run more efficiently.

Euronext Corporate Services already serves more than 4,500+ clients including over 1000 listed companies, private companies, advisors and public organisations. Clients are located across all Euronext markets (Belgium, France, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway Portugal,) but also beyond (e.g. UK, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Spain).

This unique and comprehensive value proposition is articulated around three main pillars:

•   Governance services: To public and private organizations we provide our board portal solution “iBabs” to help secure, organize and run board meetings more efficiently (save time preparing agendas and board packs, collaborate easily with annotations, voting, meeting summaries).Our advanced video technology allows you to easily broadcast your meetings, from webinars, townhalls and studio events, we provide the right solution

•   Investor relations and communication services: we help our clients to increase their visibility, engagement and international coverage with shareholders, investors and all stakeholders with leading digital communications and streaming solutions. We also provide flexible and customized market data components for Investor Relations websites of listed companies. Our IR.Manager tool provides a complete and intuitive IR management and targeting platform for corporate IR teams to professionalize the workflow and engagement. Our advisory team provides high-touch advisory, ESG advisory, market intelligence and decision making analytics for listed companies willing to be more active on capital markets.

•   Compliance services : our ComplyLog products helps companies simplify their EU regulatory duties, speed up workflows and ensure compliance by automating the management of inside information and insider lists for both issuers and their professional advisors ensuring compliance with the European Market Abuse Regulation (MAR).

Euronext Corporate Services is a fully integrated division of Euronext, including all the resources to pursue its business activities: Revenue, Growth Marketing, Product, Technology & Operations, Client Services and Transformation. It also relies on Euronext support functions to accompany its growth.

Role and Key Accountabilities

• Collaborate with business teams and product managers to gather product requirements and analyze them thoroughly as needed. Translate the product requirements into precise and clear epics and user stories.

• Manage the backlog effectively, establish a prioritized list of epics and stories for the product development team, set clear priorities for each sprint, and review deliverables to ensure they meet stakeholder’s expectations.
• Become a product subject matter expert for the team.
• Own product release plans and set the expectations internally and externally for the delivery of new functionalities in the Product.
• Works closely with the Product & Innovation team, understanding overall theme and operational objectives by studying business function and requirements. Share feedback on features and ideas.
• Make yourself highly available during the agile ceremonies to answer questions, Identify feature gaps, share feedback and early reviews.
• Challenge the Product Manager to define the real business requirements to ensure that the development team is solving the right problem.
• Coordinate the creation of product mockups and prototypes
• Fulfill the product owner role for one or multiple agile development teams
• Communicate with stakeholders during the development of a product to keep them updated
• Coordinate testing of a product, including user acceptance testing, alpha and beta programs
• Collect, coordinate, and prioritize bug fixes

Knowledge, Personality, Skills and Experience Required

• 5+ years product owner experience (certified scrum product owner a plus).
• In-depth knowledge of agile scrum methodology for project development.
• Autonomous and well organized
• Excellent oral and written communication skills adequate for documenting complex business requirements clearly and unambiguously
• Problem-solving and analytical skills
• Highly motivated, willingness and ability to learn, ability to demonstrate initiative
• Demonstrable ability to work under pressure to support demanding deadlines
• Flexibility and ability to work within changing priorities environment
• Ability to prepare reports, analysis and business correspondence
• Any additional Business knowledge would be a plus
• Any technical knowledge would be a plus (architecture, programming, network, protocols, recovery method, system failure handling, …)
• Good planning and estimating skills with a demonstrable track record in using these successfully in a high change, multi-discipline environment
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Fully fluent in English

Euronext Values

Unity

• We respect and value the people we work with
• We are unified through a common purpose
• We embrace diversity and strive for inclusion

Integrity

• We value transparency, communicate honestly and share information openly
• We act with integrity in everything we do
• We don’t hide our mistakes, and we learn from them

Agility

• We act with a sense of urgency and decisiveness
• We are adaptable, responsive and embrace change
• We take smart risks

Energy

• We are positively driven to make a difference and challenge the status quo
• We focus on and encourage personal leadership
• We motivate each other with our ambition

Accountability

• We deliver maximum value to our customers and stakeholders
• We take ownership and are accountable for the outcome
• We reward and celebrate performance

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.

In collaboration with the Data Protection Officer and the team, you will be in charge of ensuring the privacy compliance of the Euronext Group (GDPR and other applicable privacy laws). As data privacy counsel, you will be in charge of the integration of new acquired companies in the Euronext GDPR framework and of the performance of GDPR monitoring programs. You will be involved as well in our BAU with the following tasks:
•    Update of the record of processing,
•    Assist and monitor the completion of privacy impact assessments,
•    Validation of contractual clauses relating to the protection of personal data,
•    Awareness actions,
•    Assist the business in BAU activities on all privacy topics.

You have an initial experience of 3/5 years in a law firm or company in data protection and you have a 4/5-year degree course specialized in personal data protection. You will also have a keen interest in financial markets. Knowledge of other privacy regulations and cybersecurity will be appreciated.

Rigorous, organized, with excellent interpersonal and writing skills, you have a good knowledge of IT tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneTrust).  Transparency, pragmatism and team spirit are also part of your skills.
Fluency in English (spoken and written) is essential. French will be appreciated.

Counsel Legal & Regulatory Affairs

Job profile of a resource to hire on a permanent basis within LRGA in Porto.

Workplace: Porto, Avenida da Boavista, 3433 (future workplace, Porto, Cedofeita, former building of the Pharmacy Faculty of the University of Porto).

Key role and responsibilities

The lawyer will be in charge of the following activities:

• legal support and advise to the Euronext Group working closely with the wide legal and regulation team located in the various Euronext jurisdictions where the group operates. She/he will support the companies of the Group active in various domains (trading, post trading (custody and settlement) and IT businesses) .

Among others here a sample list of activities in the remit:

• general legal assistance in favor of the Euronext Group entities with respect to any matter concerning civil, corporate, commercial, financial and bank law and advise on regulatory matters in particular on post-trade;
• general legal assistance to the business operations of Euronext Securities regarding, specifically, the application of the CSDR;
• relationship with the Euronext regulators, including the Portuguese regulator;
• advise related to new products ;

• drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts, namely IT contracts, liaising with Procurement and, when necessary, with providers as well as with clients, and any other relevant legal documentation concerning Euronext Group entities;
• participating in the drafting of Rule Book of Euronext Group entities, namely of the Euronext CSDs and related implementing documentation and in the control the respective processes of internal approval and notification to the regulator;
• coordinating various legal and regulatory aspects cross border. The work involves international contracts, and implementation of changing national and European legislation (including drafting of agreements and policies, negotiations with users and client organisations).
• working cross border and developing and maintaining excellent relations with (foreign) and (non-legal) colleagues and regulators.
• attendance of meetings, conference calls, workshops and working groups, in Portugal and abroad, with colleagues as well as external professionals, in Portuguese and/or English

In so doing, the lawyer will:

• partner with the business and other relevant support functions, develop a thorough understanding of the commercial and strategic objectives of the Euronext group while managing the legal and regulatory risk exposure (i.e., understand the issue and produce viable and tangible solutions);
• think primarily “group” (i.e., assess the impact of any task on the rest of the Euronext group including the holding and sister companies);
• conduct rigorous analysis.

Key behaviours and skills required

The resource must meet the following requirements:

• degree in Law;
• knowledge of contract law, financial markets and of European laws. Willingness to develop in other fields of law
• 5-6 years’ experience in (i) legal department of a bank or of investment firm or (ii) in regulatory or capital market departments of international or domestic law firm or European entities;
• fluency in both spoken and written English;
• strong team working attitude;
• good communication skills.

Euronext Clearing, the Euronext's Central CounterParty based in Italy, is a multi-asset clearing house that provides proven risk management services on a number of European markets. Cleared asset classes include equities, ETPs, financial and commodity derivatives and bonds (cash and repo markets). The company offers a job opportunity as Senior Risk Manager (LOD 1).

The Senior Risk Manager (LOD 1) will be accountable for (some of/all) the following activities:

• Design, implementation, daily monitoring and potential enhancement of the risk models and tools aimed at tackling the risks the CCP faces:
  • (mainly) Market risk of the Clearing Members’ portfolios, in turn mainly reflected by Margins and Default Fund contribution quotas
  • Market risk of the collateral posted by Clearing Members
  • Liquidity risk of the CCP
  • Market risk of the CCP’s investment portfolio
  • Credit risk of the Clearing Members and the other CCP’s counterparties
• Daily monitoring and potential enhancement of the EMIR tests:
  • Back Test
  • Stress Test
  • Sensitivity Test
  • Reverse Stress Test
• Daily monitoring of the markets and the CCP
• Daily support to the Clearing Members
• Periodical reporting to internal/external stakeholders
• Interactions with Euronext business lines
• Interactions with Supervising Authorities
• Interactions with interoperable CCPs

The ideal candidate has:

• Master’s Degree in Finance, Quantitative Finance, Mathematics/Physics/Statistics applied to Finance or equivalent
• 5-7 years of previous experience in Risk Management within banks/financial contexts
• Good knowledge of financial markets and instruments
• Proficiency in English
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
• Programmer mindset (preference for Python and SQL programming languages)
• Good analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work in team
• Good attitude towards working simultaneously on multiple tasks often with tight deadlines/under pressure in an accurate manner
• Proactive behaviour

Optional requirements:

• Good knowledge of French language

The Product Owner “Connectivity & Customer interfaces” is part of the product development team.

Role Summary

The Product Owner (PO) is in charge of contributing to the transformation of Euronext Clearing by defining the functional design (business requirements) of the interfaces and reports available at the CCP to ensure adequacy with client needs.

The PO drafts the business requirements based on the needs that the various services cover, collected in part through consultation with clients (either external or internal). If there are several business lines or stakeholders involved, then the PO must coordinate the various parties.

The PO role will play a central role in ensuring the consistency of interfaces, customer connectivity, reporting and referential data for the clearing of all Euronext markets.

The PO will work together with Euronext post-trade teams, Euronext Operation and IT teams, the Programme director, other POs dedicated to sub streams and all relevant internal & external stakeholders.

Your key accountabilities

• Responsible for the complete definition of business requirements on connectivity and customer interfaces for Euronext Clearing. This may involve designing new interfaces which are currently split across trading, clearing and settlement instances, working with Technology on internal and external networks, liaising with teams in different companies within the group, identifying the bottlenecks and proposing solutions with the customer in mind.

• Responsible for the drafting of the complete product backlog and functional roadmap on connectivity and customer interfaces for the clearing of Euronext markets.

• Accountability for the set of requirements defined, their completeness with regards to the clients’ needs before the launch of the project is a key factor success for the product conception and launch.

• Work closely with the other members of the business and value design stream as well as internal and external stakeholders. This role is central in designing a solution appealing to Euronext Clearing Members and will require close work with Euronext Ops team including the client service desk,  Euronext Clearing teams as a whole and existing and new customers.

• Responsible for the validation of the QA reports after developments of the business functions identified by the PO.

• Participate to the structuring of Euronext Clearing Operations team in Paris and reinforcement of Euronext Clearing overall Operations team.

The key accountabilities only describe the main activities and are not intended to be exhaustive. It evolves depending on the expertise level and ongoing projects.

Your profile

Experience:

• At least 5 years of experience in the relevant financial market discipline is required as the PO needs to have strong expertise to deliver on his/her tasks;
• Past experience in an European Exchange or European CCP is a must; and
• Experience with the agile project management methodology is a plus.

Profile and Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal skills – working with teams from various locations and departments, and interacting with varying levels of seniority across the organization;
• Excellent oral and written communication and influencing skills, capable of interacting effectively with business product and operation experts as well as with executive level management;
• Excellent communication and presentation skills;
• Strong knowledge of the clearing and settlement set-ups and functions across Europe;
• Proactive and driven;
• Strong leadership;
• Excellent organizational and time management skills; and
• Mastering of English as a working language is a must.

Role Summary:

As a successful Event Manager Webinars & Webcasts, you will play an essential role in the customer experience as you will have a direct impact on the success of our customers webinars and it effective on respective audiences.

Key Accountabilities :

•Be the contact person for our clients and production team with regards to webinars & webcasts.

•Be or quickly become a specialist in the field of communication within Webcasting;

•Be a trusted advisor to our customers within various fields. You know how to best reach the audience and provide key tips and tricks to our clients

•Provide assistance and comfort, you understand that being in front of the camera can be intimidating and know exactly how to put clients at ease

•Inspire and guide the customers on a C-level through the entire process;

•Manage/coordinate the internal and external suppliers on the day of the event to make it a success;

•Encodes projects when necessary;

•Identify new market developments and translate those internally

Your profile:
• Experience in project management in a corporate environment
• Adaptable and able to maintain a good project overview
• Strive to achieve the best result together with the client, strong customer support skills
• Be client-oriented and work as a strong team with your colleagues
• Good command of English and the language of the country where you are based in
• Excellent communicative and organizational skills
• Flexible, proactive, result and service-focused
• Broad knowledge of Information Communication Technologies

Euronext is the leading pan-European exchange in the Eurozone with a unique federal model across the Belgium, Dutch, French, Irish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Italian markets. Euronext also operates a UK-based regulated securities market.

From raising equity to traded products, issuer services to market data, Euronext addresses the needs of our marketplaces, investors and companies, playing a crucial role in connecting European businesses to capital markets, fostering economic growth, and providing listing opportunities for companies of varying size.

The candidate we are looking must have the following profile:

Job Profile

• Manage, configure, upgrade and troubleshoot Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure.
• Manage, configure, upgrade and troubleshoot Storage Servers and SAN Switches.
• Interact with other teams to fully understand and implement business requirements, security policies, compliance rules and network connectivity flows.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure that OpenShift infrastructure have the appropriated availability, performance and security that our business requires.
• Ensure that every addition, removal or change done on the OpenShift infrastructure is properly managed through our automation platform.
• Ensure that security policies and compliance rules are applied in the OpenShift infrastructure.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

• 5+ years of experience in OpenShift administration.
• System administration, conceptualization, design, construction, and operation of OpenShift platforms.
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CI/CD tools.
• Experience with automation.
• Experience with Storage Servers.
• Demonstrated knowledge of infrastructure services and networking topologies.
• Strong organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good English communication skills (written and oral).
• Ability to learn and apply new concepts quickly.
• Team player.

Key accountabilities

• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.
• Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes.
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
• Mine and analyze data from company databases and date sets to drive optimization and improvement of product developments.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.
• Undertake preprocessing of structured and unstructured data.
• Collaborate with engineering and product development teams to implement models and monitor outcomes.
• Participate in the design of the fee schemes for cash equity and listed derivatives clearing leveraging on data analysis.

The key accountabilities only describe the main activities and is not exhaustive. It evolves depending on the expertise level and ongoing projects.

Your profile

• Experience using statistical computer languages (R, Python, SLQ, etc.) to manipulate data, draw insights from large data sets, querying databases and creating data architectures.
• Experience creating and using advanced algorithms and statistics.
• Strong problem-solving & math skills with an emphasis on practical implementations. Graduated from an engineering school or a university with mathematics specialties.
• Deep understanding of market finance risks.
• A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.
• Interest in automated testing and continuous integration.
• Comfortable in fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Key accountabilities

The HR Data & Controlling Associate is responsible for the monthly and quarterly reporting, analysis, and forecasting of headcount.

Workforce Planning Processes (Annual and Monthly)

• Actively assist HR colleagues, Business Leaders, and finance partners in these processes by:
  • Organizing monthly reviews of resources and staff costs.
  • Coordinating effective communication within the HR population.
  • Ensuring data accuracy.
• Contribute to the annual Target Operating Model (TOM) preparation and discussions with HR and Business Leaders.
• Propose continuous improvements to various Workforce Planning processes.

Reporting and data analysis

• Conduct monthly and quarterly reporting and analysis of staff costs.
• Ensure that analysis and reporting are performed with a high level of data quality and operational excellence.
• Support ad-hoc requests on HR data, including surveys, internal and external on-demand reports, and new dashboard requests.
• Provide and support any Compensation & Benefits (C&B) or data analysis required by management.

Systems and tools

• Provide support to all Workforce Planning tool users in their daily activities, monitor user requests, and resolve issues.
• Support the continuous improvement of Workforce Planning tools and processes.
• Create and develop new reports and dashboards in the Workforce Planning tool.

The key accountabilities listed above describe the main activities and is not exhaustive. Responsibilities may evolve based on expertise level and ongoing projects.

Ideal candidate profile:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in HR data analysis, workforce planning, or a similar role.
• Proficiency in using HRIS systems, particularly Workday, and advanced Excel skills.

Skills and competencies:

• Analytical skills: strong ability to analyse complex data sets and provide actionable insights.
• Attention to details: high level of accuracy and attention to detail in data analysis and reporting.
• Communication skills: excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively interact with HR colleagues, business leaders and finance partners. English is a must have (written and verbal communication).
• Problem solving: ability to identify issues, propose solutions, and implement improvements in processes and tools.
• Technical proficiency: experience with workforce planning tools and ability to create and develop reports.
• Team collaboration: strong team player with the ability to work collaboratively across different functions and levels of the organization.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

• Proven Business Analyst with experience as a delivery/implementation consultant, solution architect, or technical analyst.
• Background in the financial sector, especially in research, investment management, or fintech, is preferred.
• 5-10 years of relevant experience, including client facing roles
• Agile development experience.
• Skilled in navigating complex data, establishing facts, and drawing clear conclusions.
• Proactive and enthusiastic approach, with excellent communication skills for building consensus and persuading stakeholders.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to produce clear, concise documentation in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong SQL and Excel proficiency.
• Can build consensus via mock ups and prototype, bringing together web design & data skills.