This role offers a unique opportunity to sit at the intersection of global commodities trading, regulatory oversight, and market integrity. You will play a key part in protecting both the firm and wider markets through proactive surveillance, direct engagement with front‑office teams, and involvement in emerging regulatory developments. The role stands out for its breadth—hands‑on alert investigation, cross‑functional collaboration, regulatory interaction, and an advisory position supporting trading desks.
What You Will Do
A day in this role will include a diverse mix of surveillance, investigative work, advisory responsibilities, and regulatory engagement:
- Perform trade surveillance across multiple global commodities markets, monitoring for market abuse indicators such as spoofing/layering, wash trades, front‑running, and insider trading.
- Conduct communications monitoring to ensure compliance with relevant regulatory expectations.
- Own the full lifecycle of surveillance alerts: triage, investigation, escalation, and documentation.
Regulatory & Compliance Support
- Assist in business impact assessments, regulatory change management, and implementation projects.
- Monitor evolving legislative and regulatory developments relevant to the KAES trading business.
- Support the firm’s FCA reporting obligations.
- Oversee AML/KYC onboarding checks to ensure robust compliance controls.
- Assist with responding to enquiries from Exchanges, regulators, and other external stakeholders.
Advisory & Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as an advisory partner to front‑office trading desks.
- Engage with traders, business support teams, counterparties, regulatory authorities, trade associations, and working groups.
- Continuously improve and adapt surveillance frameworks as regulatory risks evolve.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Demonstrated interest in commodities‑related business.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Strong organizational, project management, analytical, and critical‑thinking abilities.
- Confident engaging with front‑office stakeholders in time‑sensitive environments.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience performing trade and communications surveillance.
- Experience handling regulatory enquiries.
- Solid understanding of futures markets.
- Ability to communicate, interact with, and challenge staff at all levels, strong teamwork skills.
- Knowledge of regulations such as MAR, REMIT, MiFID II, and EMIR.
- Familiarity with LME and CME market structures.
- Understanding of the FCA Handbook.
- Exposure to European Commodity Exchange Rulebooks.
- Knowledge of anti‑money laundering rules.
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Who We Are
Koch Minerals & Trading (KM&T) specializes in the innovative commercialization and global trading of renewable energy, energy, metals, minerals and other commodities. Focused on sustainability, KM&T trades products and services that power life today and for the future. KM&T is also a global solutions provider for industrial businesses, offering market insights and expertise in buying, selling and managing risk across multiple commodity markets. KM&T is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, a family‑owned company with 120,000 employees in 60 countries, and a commitment to creating long‑term value and societal benefit.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
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