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Associate Analyst
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
Rockville, MD, United States
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Description
We Work to Protect Investors. Join our Team.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is seeking a well-qualified individual for our Associate Analyst, Fixed Income opening in Rockville, MD. To be considered for this position, please submit your resume through our career site at www.finra.org/careers – no phone calls, please.
Job Summary:
Conducts investigations of unusual options market activity for evidence of violations of applicable federal securities laws, other applicable options rules, and FINRA rules and regulations. May provide surveillance and investigative services for other clients or other products as appropriate, under the direct supervision of management.
Position may be
filled at various levelsdepending on experience and job skills of a successful candidate.
Essential Job Functions:
• Conducts investigations based on referrals received from client(s) and other internal and external sources, under the direct supervision of management.
• Compiles and organizes information from a variety of sources to be used in the development of investigations of potentially violative activity under the direct supervision of management.
• Through the review/investigative process the Analyst will resolve situations that may impact market integrity.
• Develops a thorough understanding of the investigative techniques utilized in the respective area of primary responsibility and relevant rules and regulations.
• Conducts rule analysis and suggests changes when necessary, under the direct supervision of management.
• Prepares outlines and conducts depositions of witnesses under the direct supervision of management.
• Presents presenting investigative findings (orally and in writing) to management, and other constituents in an organized, concise and timely fashion.
Qualifications
Education/Experience Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business or Economics or directly substitutable FINRA/Industry experience; industry experience in options or derivatives; futures experience helpful with up to 1 year experience.
• Legal background and advanced degree in law or business helpful.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct telephone interviews and elicit pertinent information from issuers, members and others.
• Demonstrated ability to initiate and complete quality routine reviews/ investigations in a timely fashion.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively interface with management, peers and others to accomplish Market Regulation mission and goals.
• Working knowledge of relevant options, FINRA, and SEC rules and regulations and ability to conduct telephone interviews.
• Working knowledge of securities markets including equity and options background, member firm operations, books and records.
Working Conditions:
• Work is conducted in a cubicle environment.
• Minimal travel may be required.
To be considered for this position, please submit a cover letter and resume. A writing sample may be required as part of the submission.
The information provided above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work of the position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required.
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In addition to a competitive salary, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, and incentive compensation, FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match. You will also be eligible for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, our tuition reimbursement program and many other benefits. If you would like to contribute to our important mission and work collegially in a professional organization that values intelligence, integrity and initiative, consider a career with FINRA.
Important Information
FINRA’s Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees’ investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain, and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse, domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts. All of those accounts are subject to the Code’sinvestment and securities account restrictions, and new employees must comply with those investment restrictions—including disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRA’s Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice President—by the date they begin employment with FINRA. Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA, and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment.
As standard practice, employees must also execute FINRA’s Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the company’s policy on nepotism.
About FINRA
FINRA is an independent, non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business with the public in the United States. FINRA works to protect investors and maintain market integrity in a public-private partnership with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), while also benefiting from the SEC’s oversight. In its role as investor guardian, FINRA is informed, but not influenced, by the industry that it regulates. FINRA’s independent regulation plays a critical role in America’s financial system–all at no cost to taxpayers.
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