Bloomberg Compliance Manager

About the role

In your role as Bloomberg Compliance Manager you will make a meaningful and valued contribution from the outset. This role will provide a great opportunity to create, manage and maintain all Compliance rules within Bloomberg.

You will work with many different teams across USSIM, such as the "Investment Management Product" (IPM) team when onboarding new mandates or trading of new products.

As part of maintaining compliance rules, the role will include working with Front Office and Operations teams in helping to resolve any breaches or other similar compliance queries.

This role also includes reviewing our compliance coding practices, driving constant improvements and ensuring our processes are as efficient and effective as possible.

What you will be doing

As a trusted part of the Operations you will be responsible for:

Delivering Results

• Design, plan, configure, test and implement Compliance rules with Bloomberg
• Maintain Compliance Coding rules, ensuring they are up to date and accurate
• Act as the first point of contact for any issues or queries raised related to Compliance rules. Record and take ownership of issues using JIRA and follow through to successful resolution
• As and when required, assist or resolve L0/L1 general Bloomberg queries
• Manage and resolve issues and queries within Service Level Agreements set in the Application Support Team, in so far as third party SLA's allow
• Be flexible in working patterns to ensure support coverage during the business day

Managing Relationships

• Provide regular, timely updates to stakeholders during delivery, issue investigation and resolution
• Manage expectations of users and IMS management if SLA cannot be achieved, including proposed mitigation and/or workaround
• Escalate issues as required to IMS and Business management

Managing Processes & Future Focus

• Take a proactive view to the work that is performed across Bloomberg Compliance Coding, identifying and implementing improvements that increase efficiency within the team
• Work with IMS, IPM and other business teams to implement long term solutions with respect to Compliance coding
• Produce and maintain support documentation and procedures in Atlassian Confluence or similar
• Contribute to the design phases of new initiatives to ensure a continuous effective model in managing Compliance rules
• Share Compliance Coding knowledge when required, to ensure adequate coverage of issues across the "IMS Bloomberg Team"

About you

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box, if you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, then please apply, regardless of whether you meet all the requirements outlined in this profile.
To be successful in the role you will have:

• Extensive Bloomberg Compliance Coding knowledge
•  Excellent knowledge of “Violations Manager”, “Compliance Manager” and Watchlists. The candidate would be expected to support fund managers, compliance and operations teams with investment restricted related queries and requests as well as assist with investigation and resolution of incidents raised
• Excellent communication skills
• Effective collaboration with stakeholders, contributing to ideas and driving improvements
• Take ownership of issues until resolution
• Knowledge of following Bloomberg functions is not essential, but would be advantageous
• Electronic trading workflow
• Position management tools
• Familiarity with general functionality within Bloomberg for market and pricing data
• Onboarding of new portfolios, counterparties and users
• Configuration of data feeds as well as experience creating ad-hoc Data License requests
• Administration of commissions rules in CUTS

Why join us?

How we will reward you

• Great starting salary
• Generous annual leave package
• Access to a high quality pension scheme provided through Universities Superannuation Scheme
• Supportive people policies (including enhanced occupational sickness pay and family friendly pay)
• Financial contributions towards your personal development to help you maintain your physical and mental wellbeing
• Access to a range of health and wellbeing services i.e., private healthcare, discounted gym membership
• Learning and development opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and talent
• Employee Volunteer Day’s to support the communities where you work and live
• Cycle to Work Scheme

Our culture and values

Our people are what makes us different. We work together to create a diverse and inclusive culture that embraces individuality, where people are welcomed and feel comfortable in the knowledge that they can be themselves.

Our purpose firmly states the importance of members, putting them ‘front and centre’ of what we do. This is embedded through our values.

• Integrity
• Collaboration
• Excellence
   

About us

Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) was established in 1974 as the principal pension scheme for universities and higher education institutions in the UK. We work with around 330 employers to help build a secure financial future for more than 528,000 members and their families.

We are one of the largest pension schemes in the UK, with total assets of around £75.5bn (at 31 March 2023). To find out more, please visit https://www.uss.co.uk
USSIM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We strive to ensure our recruitment process is as flexible and inclusive as possible so we can attract diverse candidates and recruit the best talent.

We want all candidates to perform at their best during the recruitment process, so if you need any reasonable adjustments or if there is anything we can do to help support you through your recruitment journey please let us know by contacting .