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Internal Audit at Euronext - general overview

The Internal Audit team supports Euronext in achieving its objectives by providing independent, objective assurance and advisory services to help management evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control and governance processes.
Euronext operates seven national regulated securities and derivatives markets in Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, Milan, Oslo and Paris, a regulated derivatives market in Bergen, a leading fixed-income trading platform, MTS, as well as four central securities depositories (CSDs), a clearing house and services across Europe.

The Euronext Internal Audit Team is composed of 15 auditors located across Europe. The Internal Audit function is pursuing its substantial transformation in order to adapt to the recent growth of Euronext. Euronext is strengthening its audit function by building a strong audit community as part of the matrix organization of the Euronext federal model. Internal Auditors are working both locally and across the geographical locations where Euronext is established. They are covering all group entities including Markets, CSDs and the Clearing House, as well as other group entities and support functions such as IT, Compliance, Risk etc.

We are looking for a Junior Internal Auditor to join our Paris office.

The Internal Audit on business side is responsible for assisting a Senior team member in performing audits on business activities and special projects on a risk-based approach throughout the entire group, covering the diversity of topics that may arise in the complex and dynamic environment of Euronext.  Responsibilities include reviewing the design, effectiveness and efficiency of financial and operational processes, procedures and internal controls to identify risks and determine compliance with Group policies and industry best practices.

Key Accountabilities

Under the supervision of a senior team member (e.g. Supervising Auditor):

• Assist in the performance of the annual Risk Assessment exercise and consequently the development of a risk-based, current and relevant annual audit plan.

• Conduct business and financial reviews. This includes documenting, analyzing, and assessing related risks and controls, assisting in designing tests to assess the effectiveness of controls, evaluating compliance with Group and local procedures, and identifying issues that warrant management’s attention.

• Communicate issues to stakeholders in a clear and precise manner,  offering recommended solutions relevant to business and Risk.

• Ensure that audit activities follow applicable standards and is documented in line with defined methodologies in the organisation’s internal audit tool

• Contribute to Internal Audit’s recommendation follow-up process and liaise with management on progress in implementing improvement and development items

• Identify and actively support the best practices for Internal Audit.

• Develop and maintain positive stakeholders relationships.

• Ensure adherence with professional standards at all times.

• Ensure adequate focus on personal professional growth relevant to taking on more challenging assignments, in line with standard audit career progression – proactively seek relevant education and training opportunities.

• Perform other related duties assigned.

Experience

• 0-2  years relevant internal or external audit experience required

Education & Knowledge

• Bachelors / Master’s degree in accounting or Finance or a related field

Profile

• Knowledge of financial industry/Euronext markets, operations and / or IT is an advantage

• Excellent analytical skills.

• Ability to effectively elicit information from within and outside Euronext and professionally substantiate findings and conclusions.

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to work in teams.

• Strong prioritization skills. Must have the ability to multi-task on varying projects and initiatives.

• Flexibility to travel.

• Fluency in English is a must – French, Italian,  Norwegian,  Danish, Portuguese, Dutch is a plus but not mandatory.

Company | Euronext

Euronext is the leading pan-European market infrastructure, connecting local 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 close to 1,900 listed issuers worth €5.6 trillion in market capitalisation as of end March 2021, 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. 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. Euronext provides custody and settlement services through central securities depositories in Denmark, Italy, Norway and Portugal.

For the latest news, go to euronext.com or follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/euronext) and LinkedIn (linkedin.com/euronext).

Department

Within Euronext, the Listing Department is in charge of the relationship with listed companies and those contemplating an IPO. Our mission is to promote financial markets and explain to business leaders the benefits of listing and how to better use financial markets once public. In addition, we are supporting a dynamic through creating and promoting new services and financing instruments, developing the investors’ axis, bringing together the ecosystem and lobbying towards European public authorities.

Within the ExpertLine team located in the heart of the market surveillance room, the trainee is always in close contact with the market and its Listing clients (listed companies, financial intermediaries, law firm, etc.) and with the Euronext teams.

Key accountabilities

• Good Understanding of the Euronext’s environment.

• Assisting all the Euronext clients using the support tool dedicated to them (statistics, legal aspects, etc).

• Constant improvement of processes / tools and ensure an high level of quality service in due time

• Answer to questions and requests raised by issuers and third parties ( phone/e mails/ meetings)

• Promote web services dedicated to our clients

• Ensure a treatment of quality and ensure a reactive feedback, within an agreed timeframe, to questions and requests issued by issuers.

• Develop supporting documentation (user guide, factsheet, ...).

• Assistance in the production of statistics for listed companies financial reporting

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

Profile

• Proven previous experience within a transaction services, investment bank and/or an advisory boutique.

• Good understanding of Equity Capital Markets

• Expert verbal communication skills both internally and externally.

• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.

• Rigorous, organized, endowed with an excellent relationship and a sense of communication, you are dynamic and you are responsive and initiative. Fluency in English and /or Norvegian is essential.

To complement our team of index structuring and business development experts, we are looking for a driven individual to support the Fixed Income branch.

Primary Responsibilities :

The candidate will primarily be responsible for :

• Enhancing the index library with new tools (new calculation formula, risk models, performance attributions …)

• Develop scripts to simulate investment strategies and automate reporting

• Ensuring consistency of internal databases, data quality checks for indices design

• Doing market research to identify areas of growth

• Assist in the definition of new index methodologies adapted to the demands of end investors

Profile :

• Master's Degree in Business / Finance / Audit / Law

Skills :

• English: full professional proficiency is required

• Strong understanding of fixed income instruments, especially in the context of index structuring

• Rigorous, curious and autonomous

• Hands-on approach and attention to details

• Team player and Intercultural competence and excellent communication skills

• Excellent proficiency in Python and Excel

Position for May 2024

Support operations and projects linked with Corporate Services solutions for Governance (iBabs), Compliance (ComplyLog), Communication (Company Webcast), Investor Relations (Advisory and IR Solutions). May be part of the team for one or several of the Corporate Services products/services, notably for iBabs and Company Webcast solutions. 

As an intern in Event Management, you play an essential role in the company, as you have a direct impact on the success of our clients' webinars and webcasts. For many of our clients, the world of webinars is new, and you (alongside an Event Manager) are the one who guides them through all processes and puts them at ease.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Event manager during the complete project management process
• Coordinate local suppliers and technical teams involved in the solution
• Support the success of client events (webinars/webcasts, on site...)
• Help clients optimize their working processes and effectively use Corporate Services solutions
• Develop specific, sector-oriented knowledge
• Identify needs and market developments
• Responsible for good internal and external communication

Profile

• A motivated, flexible and enthousiastic student with a proactive attitude
• Be client-oriented with strong customer support skills and be a strong team player
• Good command of French, Dutch and English.
• Excellent communicative and organizational skills
• Broad knowledge of Information Communication Technologies

What do we offer ?

• Responsibility for your own projects

• Working with leading international companies

• A friendly team

• An international work environment

You would be joining Nord Pool, which shapes the international power markets. Nord Pool has been the world’s first international organized power marketplace and delivers efficient, simple and secure trading across Europe. It offers day-ahead and intraday power trading, clearing and settlement to customers regardless of size or location.

are focused on supporting the different internal departments and subsidiaries on existing and upcoming legal or regulatory issues. You will providing legal advice on both local and international issues.

Key accountabilities

• Proactively contribute to the development of Nord Pool’s legal framework and policies in relation to regulatory and legal matters (general business law contract law, corporate law, Intellectual property law, competition law, law related to guarantees and other collateral documents).

• Provide legal advice to internal clients and stakeholders, including by identifying, managing and communicating risks and opportunities associated with specific agreements and business objectives and initiatives.

• Participate and represent Nord Pool in European and regional market coupling projects.

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide array of commercial agreements, including e.g. market coupling agreements, cooperation agreements, service agreements, IT delivery contracts.

• Consistently anticipate, communicate, provide timely evaluation and guidance of, and propose mitigation strategies for and advise management of potential risks in contractual, regulatory, compliance, financial and other legal areas.

• Assess and respond to information and concerns and/or issues raised by market participants, regulators and other stakeholders.

• Contribute to ongoing process improvement and problem solving work product of the legal group.

Your profile

• Ability to maintain excellent working relationships with colleagues in other business areas, external bodies and key stakeholders such as senior management, external legal counsel and relevant regulators.

• Superior analytical skills and creative problem solving ability, with an appreciation for striking a practical balance between business and legal objectives.

• Talent for absorbing new skill sets and areas of expertise quickly and comfortably and the flexibility to deal with a diverse international set of clients and advisors.

• Be a pragmatic, high-energy professional, with personal and professional integrity.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• English fluency.

• Flexibility to travel within Europe.

• Education:  Master degree in law from a Norwegian university.

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience gained with a reputable law firm or as in-house counsel with international exposure.

• Preferably good knowledge of European electricity markets and/or other regulated industries.

Key accountabilities

• Prospective and retrospective monitoring of compliance with rules and with national and european law and applicable regulation
• Monitor, alert, prevent and detect market manipulations accordingly to the compliance policy the defined process
• Ensure an efficient incident management by tracking resolution of bugs linked to incidents, working postmortem, handling market status communication**

• Prospective and retrospective monitoring of compliance with rules and with national and European law and applicable regulation (detect exceptions, unfair or unusual trading patterns, manage alerts and enforce the rules, investigation and reporting of suspicious market abuse and AML situations to the competent authorities)
• Liaison with Authorities with reference to STOR, AML and special market situations
• Real time and ex post monitoring of liquidity provision obligations
• Development and maintenance of algorithms and tools for pattern detection and market management - including BOT and other computer aided market control actions
• Responsible for the entire on boarding procedure of new members ***
• Ensure the running of core business processes on a day-to-day basis by proactively identifying issues, executing resolutions, and implementing process improvements related to post trade processes ***

*not applicable for Borsa Italiana Market Surveillance Team and MTS
** not applicable for MTS
*** only for MTS

*not applicable for Borsa Italiana Market Surveillance Team

Your profile
• Advanced knowledge of trading venues rule books, trading system parameters and technical mechanisms
• Detailed knowledge of applicable European regulation (MiFIR, MiFID, MAR) and respective application to trading venues
• Significant previous experience in internal audit or other similar corporate functions (e.g., risk / compliance)
• Strong analytical and organization skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Proven team leadership and management skills

Key accountabilities
• Ensure the delivery of market data services, which includes data feeds, distribution agreements as well as market data services*
• Work closely with the IT and Operations staff to ensure accuracy, timeliness and completeness of transaction, position and market data*
• Prospective and retrospective monitoring of compliance with rules and with national and european law and applicable regulation
• Monitor, alert, prevent and detect market manipulations accordingly to the compliance policy the defined process
• Ensure an efficient incident management by tracking resolution of bugs linked to incidents, working postmortem, handling market status communication**
• Manage relationships with vendors (e.g., Bloomberg, FactSet, Thomson Reuters ,etc.) and monitor member account details, maintaining detailed descriptive data and price information / attributes about assets, setting up securities, and maintaining contracts, agreements and relationships with third party vendors that provide pricing feeds*
• Prospective and retrospective monitoring of compliance with rules and with national and European law and applicable regulation (detect exceptions, unfair or unusual trading patterns, manage alerts and enforce the rules, investigation and reporting of suspicious market abuse and AML situations to the competent authorities)
• Liaison with Authorities with reference to STOR, AML and special market situations
• Real time and ex post monitoring of liquidity provision obligations
• Development and maintenance of algorithms and tools for pattern detection and market management - including BOT and other computer aided market control actions
• Responsible for the entire on boarding procedure of new members ***
• Ensure the running of core business processes on a day-to-day basis by proactively identifying issues, executing resolutions, and implementing process improvements related to post trade processes ***

*not applicable for Borsa Italiana Market Surveillance Team and MTS
** not applicable for MTS
*** only for MTS

*not applicable for Borsa Italiana Market Surveillance Team

Your profile
• Advanced knowledge of trading venues rule books, trading system parameters and technical mechanisms
• Detailed knowledge of applicable European regulation (MiFIR, MiFID, MAR) and respective application to trading venues
• Significant previous experience in internal audit or other similar corporate functions (e.g., risk / compliance)
• Strong analytical and organization skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Proven team leadership and management skills

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

Euronext brings together buyers and sellers in venues that are transparent, efficient, and reliable, addressing the needs of all market participants: SMEs and blue chips, retail and institutional investors, buy-side and sell-side, brokers and market makers, long-only and high frequency traders.

Euronext provides a large range of products and services, platforms, technologies, and the deepest pool of liquidity in Europe around one core mandate: power pan-European capital markets to finance the real economy. Euronext has also expanded its footprint with a new corporate services suite and foreign exchange trading.

We are looking for our new Data Analyst Apprentice in the Statistics and Analytics team. This position is based in Paris. With the other Data Analysts of the team, you will work on deriving insights from Euronext vast pool of historical market data and other data sources to support data driven decision of the business and sales teams, as well as operations and communication teams.

You will contribute to the evolution of the technics and tools put in place to answer the expectations for data self-service and will be responsible for actively engaging in the initiative to implement optimal analysis contents that are relevant to internal and external stakeholders. As part of the business team owning this historical data database, you will also contribute as a data expert to the definition and evolution of this database in relation with other business teams.

Your role

• Work in close collaboration with our internal clients and other team members to deliver valuable insights from the available market data in the form of statistics, analysis, or more advanced studies.

• Build a close relation with these internal clients and adopt a proactive posture by understanding their business challenges and proposing them data analytic services.

• Contribute to answer external stakeholders’ data requests.

• Build and maintain automatic reporting systems controlled by the team to enforce data self-service for recurring data requests or proactively send data to our internal/external clients.

• Active contribution to the continuous improvement of data analytics and reporting within the team and support to the team in projects and daily tasks.

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

This job is for you if

• You are into financial data and capital markets

• You are client oriented and have great communication capacity

• You are curious and have problem solving mindset

• You are rigorous, and put attention to details

• You have strong team spirit and collaboration skills

• You like to be proactive and propose ideas

• You are positive and enthusiastic

• You are very well organized

• You are resilient and agile

• You are a fast learner

• You have a high capacity to assess and plan your own activity

Technically, you should know how to use

• SQL

• Python

• SAS

• Excel

• Knowledge of Dataiku is a plus

• Knowledge of PowerBI is a plus

What we expect from you :

• Final or penultimate year student with a degree in computer science, quantitative finance, economics, or another quantitative field

• First experience in data analysis and/or finance is a plus

12 months apprenticeship

Ideal start date : September 1, 2024

The Euronext Corporate Services team is composed of over 180 professionals that combine a strong local footprint across Europe with a deep understanding of global capital markets. They help organisations, both listed and non-listed, private and public, make the most effective use of capital markets and run more efficiently.

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

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

• Governance : Our board portal solution “iBabs” help organizations to secure, organize and run board meetings more efficiently (save time preparing agendas and board packs, collaborate easily with annotations, voting, meeting summaries).
• Communication : We are the market leader in webinars and webcasts services for financial results, internal communication, marketing and external communication with our solution Company Webcast. We help our clients to increase their visibility, engagement and international coverage. We also provide flexible and customized market data components for Investor Relations websites of listed companies.
• Compliance : Our InsiderLog products offer a solution to automate the management of inside information and insider lists for both issuers and their professional advisors. Our tool aims to save time and ensure compliance with the European Market Abuse Regulation (MAR).
• Investor Relations : Our Advisory team provides high-touch advisory, market intelligence and decision making analytics for listed companies willing to be more active on capital markets. Our IR.Manager tool provides a complete and intuitive IR management and targeting platform for corporate IR teams to professionalize the workflow and engagement.

Euronext Corporate Services is a fully integrated division, including all the resources to pursue its business activities: Sales, Marketing, Client Excellence, Product, Technology.

Summary of the role

This position is for a team lead in the Compliance Services product line, responsible for software development activities of ComplyLog and all regulatory technology solutions for issuers and advisors. It involves a hands-on technical leadership role.

50% of the time will be dedicated to writing high-quality, production-ready code and the remaining 50% will be dedicated to managing the team: mentoring the team, addressing challenges, supporting career growth, and actively participating in coaching and training initiatives.

The key accountabilities for this role are

• Lead a tech team of 5+ developers in software development initiatives and translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Design robust, scalable, and cost-efficient end-to-end cloud solutions customized to meet product specifications.
• Elevate team performance through regular one-on-one meetings, constructive feedback, and fostering individual growth.
• Collaborate closely with the Product Owner to ensure alignment with business requirements and meet delivery timelines.
• Prioritize and facilitate the early resolution of client issues, ensuring adherence to agreed Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Seek opportunities for continuous improvement in processes, tools, and team dynamics.
• Conduct code reviews, contribute to critical feature designs, and ensure the overall quality of the team's deliverables.
• Flag technical debt and areas of improvements, making sure they are properly documented and taken into account when defining priorities.
• Implement a robust documentation system for knowledge base, onboarding, knowledge transfer, and communication in software development activities. · Willing to travel for collaboration with offshore teams.

Knowledge, skills and experience required:

• 5+ years hands-on experience in Java development with expertise in the latest editions, including Spring Boot.
• Experience in managing a team is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Gitflow, IaC, deployment patterns, and code quality tools.
• Extensive knowledge of AWS, Microservices architecture, design patterns, and proficiency in containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid grasp of security best practices related to APIs and data privacy.
• Proficiency in Agile/Scrum methodologies and a commitment to driving Agile practices within the team.
• Keen on staying current with industry trends, tech advancements, and best practices to enhance the team's workflow.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to addressing challenges.
• Experience in frontend technologies like React.js or Angular is a strong plus.
• Domain Knowledge of EU Market Abuse Regulation and EU Whistleblowing Directive is a Plus.