Financial Regulatory Counsel

Description & Requirements

Our Team Challenging. Surprising. Fast-paced. Purposeful. Life at Bloomberg is many things, but it’s never dull. We’re a global business with a diverse workforce. We pride ourselves on being open, inclusive and collaborative — and in providing a work environment that inspires our employees to be their best. At Bloomberg, we work with purpose. All of us engage in meaningful work, delivering leading edge products and solutions that shape the industry and provide value to our customers. You’ll also get to work at a company that lives its values and provides employees with opportunities to give back. Whether you thrive on the energy of a newsroom, the pace of a trading floor, or the buzz of a recent tech breakthrough, we’ll give you more than a job. We’ll give you the opportunity to do amazing work you couldn’t do anywhere else.

The Global Financial Regulatory team provides coverage and legal support for Bloomberg's regulated entities and products as well as guidance for Bloomberg's unregulated products and services. We are influential in the development of new products, services and regularly provide legal advice regarding the design and implementation of new products and services.

What’s The Role?

Based in New York, this is a great opportunity to join the Financial Regulatory legal team who are responsible for the global support of electronic trading venues and systems for securities and derivatives across all asset classes, benchmarks administration, data reporting services, pre-trade analytics, post-trade services, research, information security and enterprise risk. In our team, you will have the opportunity to support products across the business including electronic trading systems. On any given day you could be asked to analyze, help implement, or advocate for change to U.S., UK, EU and international securities and derivatives laws and financial regulation affecting Bloomberg's businesses, or draft and negotiate agreements with key customers.

You will liaise regularly with senior business people, other legal counsel, our Risk, Negotiations and Compliance teams, and other key support functions. We'll Trust You To Provide advice and help ensure regulated businesses comply with their regulatory and commercial obligations Provide legal support and advice to a variety of internal stakeholders including business, operations, compliance, risk and sales and marketing Help draft and negotiate agreements and regulatory responses Bring a willingness to develop your knowledge of securities and derivatives regulation globally, and related practice areas, to complement a high-performing legal team with a broad portfolio of regulatory issues facing electronic trading and technology and information services providers Thrive in collaborating with colleagues to deliver first-class advice and execution to Bloomberg

What You’ll Need To Have

• A minimum of 7 years at a top tier international law firm and/or in-house legal department of a multinational company, focused on financial regulatory matters
• Knowledge of regulatory issues relevant to SEC-registered broker-dealers and regulated trading infrastructure (e.g. regulated trading venues like alternative trading systems and swap execution facilities)
• Expertise in securities/derivatives regulations
• Strong communication, presentation and negotiation skills and the ability to thrive in an open office environment
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a diverse and fast-paced team environment

Experience We'd Love To See

• Experience with public and private securities offerings and/or regulated businesses in the financial services sector
• A secondment supporting an in-house financial regulation team

What We Offer

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others.

The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.