FINANCIAL MARKETS & SUSTAINABILITY COMPLIANCE

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Job Summary: The Financial Markets & Sustainability Compliance area seeks a professional to safeguard the integrity of the institution and financial markets by preventing illicit behavior. Key Responsibilities: 1. Manages and oversees confidential information and Restricted Lists. 2. Coordinates surveillance of operations and communications. 3. Provides technical advice and ensures regulatory compliance. **Excited to grow your career?** BBVA is a global company with more than 160 years of history that operates in more than 25 countries where we serve more than 80 million customers. We are more than 121,000 professionals working in multidisciplinary teams with profiles as diverse as financiers, legal experts, data scientists, developers, engineers and designers. The **Financial Markets \& Sustainability Compliance** area has the fundamental mission of safeguarding the integrity of the institution and the financial markets in which we operate. We act as **guardians of conduct rules in Securities Markets**, responsible for preventing internal behaviors that could unlawfully disrupt the normal functioning of markets. Our work consists of ensuring that privileged information is handled under the strictest confidentiality standards, supervising information barriers and monitoring **proprietary trading** by employees, thereby ensuring full alignment with global best practices and regulatory compliance. **About the job:** **1\. Control Room Management:** * Supervise the flow of confidential information to mitigate risks of misuse of privileged information (*Insider Trading*). * Coordinate the administration of **Restricted Lists** and Surveillance Lists. * Manage and monitor **proprietary trading** processes by employees, ensuring the absence of conflicts of interest. * Validate the effectiveness of information barriers (*Information Barriers / Chinese Walls*) across different business units. **2\. Surveillance Coordination:** * **Coordinate Trading Surveillance:** monitoring of transactions to identify suspicious patterns or potential market manipulation in the Global Markets area. * **Coordinate Communication Surveillance:** monitoring of institutional communication channels to ensure compliance with professional conduct and ethical standards. **3\. Advisory and Regulatory Compliance:** * Ensure strict compliance with applicable local and international regulations governing securities intermediation and information disclosure. * **Provide technical advice to all professionals** in Global Markets trading desks and support areas regarding market conduct and abuse prevention. * Prepare risk reports and propose improvements to internal controls based on market regulatory trends. **Skills:** Conflicts of Interest, Ethics, Information Barriers, Market Conduct, Regulatory Risk, Securities Markets