Compliance Officer - Trading

Compliance Officer

At MFS, you will find a culture that supports you in doing what you do best. Our employees work together to reach better outcomes, favoring the strongest idea over the strongest individual. We put people first and demonstrate care and compassion for our community and each other. Because what we do matters to us as valued professionals and to the millions of people and institutions who rely on us to help them build more secure and prosperous futures.

The Role

The Compliance Officer is responsible for independent oversight and strategic development of our trading compliance program and provides real time compliance support to the Trading Department. The role is responsible for overseeing the firm's compliance framework related to critical business areas including best execution, fair allocation, trade errors and cross trades. The role ensures that trading activity is conducted fairly, transparently, and in the best interests of clients, in accordance with applicable regulations, fiduciary standards, and internal policies. The trading compliance role will work side-by-side with similar investment compliance roles which ensure that MFS manages client accounts in a manner consistent with applicable legal, regulatory, and client-imposed requirements. The Compliance Officer partners with senior management and collaborates with functional leaders and team members across Investments, Distribution, Investment Operations, Technology, Legal and Compliance.

What You Will Do

• Manages and oversees complex, strategic projects and significant regulatory initiatives.
• Develops and maintains effective relationships with business partners, industry peers, trade associations. Interact and communicate frequently with internal business partners and senior management across MFS to understand business needs and opportunities, to assess and articulate regulatory risks associated with existing and/or new activities, and to provide a framework to enable well informed business decisions relative to regulatory risks.
• Keeps current with evolving marketplace dynamics and global regulatory requirements, as well as emerging technology. Continually seek and implement new opportunities for improvement, efficiency and enhancement of the program.
• Establishes, implements and maintains global compliance policies and procedures appropriate to MFS and reflective of industry best practices, regulatory requirements/expectations, and emerging risk.

What We Are Looking For

• 8-12+ years of compliance experience.
• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Thorough understanding of regulatory requirements relating to compliance business area for both US and internal jurisdictions
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, communication, team-working and problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with trading practices across equities, fixed income and derivatives
• Exercises strong judgement in situations requiring interpretation of regulatory intent, materiality, and fiduciary duty.
• Demonstrated project management skills and the ability to analyze operational effectiveness. Must effectively drive solutions throughout the organization and present ideas clearly.
• Ability to exercise judgment, pursue initiatives and implement changes necessary to align functional area with the strategic/long-term goals of the Compliance Department.
• Thorough understanding of the business operations and practices, procedures, and controls specific to the business units supported is required as is the ability to apply same to compliance-related dealings with the business units supported. Must be fully aware of best practices and evolving issues within scope of the position and able to relate same to MFS' operations and practices.
• Proven ability to develop and foster strong interpersonal relationships and to maintain effective cross-functional teams throughout the organization. Demonstrated ability to effectively represent Compliance with industry peers and in client-facing situations is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree preferred
• Proficient in the use of compliance systems (for example, Charles River)

Compensation And Benefits

At MFS, we believe in fair and transparent compensation. For that reason, we're including the salary range for this position. This range reflects our good-faith expectation for what we'll pay depending on the candidate's experience, training and education. In addition to the salary, we also offer significant and competitive incentive compensation based on both individual and company performance. Other components of our Total Rewards Package include:

• MFS contributes an amount equal to 15% of your base salary to your retirement account that is separate from the company-sponsored 401(k)
• Education Assistance: MFS contributes $100 monthly up to $10,000 lifetime maximum directly to loan provider
• Education Assistance: Tuition reimbursement up to $8,000 annually
• Education Assistance: Access to discounted tutors and college coaches
• Generous time off and fully paid leaves including 20-weeks for maternity, 12-weeks for parental and caregiver leaves
• Choice of medical and dental plans and an and an employer contribution into the Health Savings Account
• Tax deferred commuter benefits & flexible spending accounts (medical & dependent care)
• Wellness Programs: Robust wellness webinars, employee assistance program with a focus on mental health, subsidized fitness benefit via Wellhub (formerly Gympass), where you can workout at gyms, studios and boutique fitness locations near you, join virtual personal training sessions and access a wide variety of well-being apps

Our compensation philosophy is to pay competitively for talent while ensuring equity across employees performing comparable work. We are committed to transparency if you have questions about how we arrived at this range or what additional benefits and bonus opportunities come with the role, we'll be happy to discuss them.

MFS is a hybrid work environment (remote/onsite) unless otherwise stated in the job posting.

If any applicant is unable to complete an application or respond to a job opening because of a disability, please contact MFS at 617-954-5000 or email talent_acquisition@mfs.com for assistance.

MFS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and it is our policy to not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state or local laws. Employees and applicants of MFS will not be subject to harassment on the basis of their status. Additionally, retaliation, including intimidation, threats, or coercion, because an employee or applicant has objected to discrimination, engaged or may engage in filing a complaint, assisted in a review, investigation, or hearing or have otherwise sought to obtain their legal rights under any Federal, State, or local EEO law is prohibited.