Head of Market Oversight

The Head of Market Oversight is responsible and accountable for the day-to-day operational management of the Trading business, covering Electronic Trading, Reference Price Generation, Inter-Office Trading and Market Surveillance.

The role has overall responsibility for the daily running, and operational resilience of all the LME's trading venues and will work closely with the core operations areas, including Trading Operations, Market Surveillance and Post-Trade Operations to ensure that the work is carried out effectively on a daily basis and meets all applicable regulations.

The role will maintain oversight of the LME's market surveillance systems, function and development to ensure current and changing regulatory and compliance requirements are met.

Responsibilities:

1. Have a deep understanding of the nature of exchange and clearing house services to provide input on relevant issues across both entities.
2. Represent the team, or ensure appropriate representation is available, at internal working groups/committees, supporting the Head of Trading & COO or leading on any projects as appropriate.
3. Work closely with external stakeholders where required to provide leadership and guidance on relevant market issues.
4. Take a key role in the activities of the wider Market Oversight team.
5. Support the Head of Trading & COO within the initiatives and projects the Market Oversight team are working on.
6. Adopting and promoting the organisations core values.
7. Communicate fluently and confidently at all levels internally and externally.
8. Coordinate with other staff in similar positions to share best practices and industry knowledge.
9. Build and maintain strong and collaborative working relationships with teams at HKEX to leverage people and processes across the group.
10. Support the HKEX Group in the delivery of the global business agenda agreed with the HKEX and subsidiary boards.

Academic and Professional Qualifications Required:

Degree-level educated or strong vocational equivalent.

Required Knowledge and Level of Experience:

1. Good direct experience of working in a regulatory-related area in the LME or other similar commodity futures markets, ideally in either an exchange or within a commodities or derivatives sector.
2. Significant experience of incident management and problem solving.
3. Detailed understanding of the regulation applicable to a regulated investment exchange.
4. A high level of understanding of trade monitoring and trading behaviours.

Skills set and Core Competencies Required for Role:

1. Proven leadership/managerial skills.
2. Excellent presentation skills.
3. Excellent communication skills and strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.
4. Ability to tailor messaging to different audiences at all levels of seniority.
5. Ability to influence through collaborative engagement.
6. High level of attention to detail.
7. Ability to demonstrate sound and reasoned judgment at all times.

Personal Qualities:

1. Highly-motivated.
2. Effective communicator with an ability to develop good relationships with colleagues and inspire confidence.
3. Willingness to work independently and in a team environment.

About Us

The LME is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. In recruiting for our teams, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity, expression and reassignment, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. In doing so, we want every LME employee to feel our commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is a publicly-traded company (HKEX Stock Code:388) and one of the world's leading global exchange groups, offering a range of equity, derivative, commodity, fixed income and other financial markets, products and services, including the London Metals Exchange.

As a superconnector and gateway between East and West, HKEX facilitates the two-way flow of capital, ideas and dialogue between China and the rest of the world, through its pioneering Connect schemes, increasingly diversified product ecosystem and its deep, liquid and international markets.

HKEX is a purpose-led organisation which, across its business and through the work of HKEX Foundation, seeks to connect, promote and progress its markets and the communities it supports for the prosperity of all.