Open vacancies
Regulatory Reporting Officer
Full time, work from the Company office.
Reporting to the Compliance Officer/ Senior Management.
A traditional brokerage firm based in Limassol, Cyprus, wishes to recruit an experienced Regulatory Reporting Officer. The successful candidate will have 3 years of experience in similar role.
You will be doing the regulatory reporting as per the Company reporting obligations, study new reporting obligations and implement them, monitor certain compliance-related processes. This is an opportunity to join a company with vision and targets. The opening is due to growing needs and horizons.
Main duties and responsibilities:
- Perform Quarterly / Monthly / Daily submission of various Regulatory Reports (e.g. EMIR, SFTR, MiFIR, APA, etc.);
- Assist with any Regulatory Reporting enquiries received from the National Competent Authority, senior management, counterparties, or clients;
- Involvement in Regulatory Reporting Systems’ improvements / proactivity for automation and process efficiency;
- Data quality/correctness checks on big data volumes;
- Daily monitoring of Regulatory Reporting reconciliations;
- Daily instrument MIFID eligibility check;
- Perform certain types of transaction monitoring as assigned by the Compliance Officer, e.g. monitoring of best execution automatic report, monitoring of personal transactions automatic report, monitoring of anti-market abuse automatic report.
Candidate profile:
- Profound understanding of financial instruments (transferable securities, derivatives, repo’s);
- Profound understanding of MiFID II, European regulatory reporting requirements;
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar position where the candidate performed regulatory reporting;
- Fluency in Russian and English languages at a professional level;
- Proficient in the use of Excel;
- University/college degree in a related field;
- Strong analytical skills and ability to work independently.
Company benefits:
- 21 days of annual leave;
- Private medical insurance for all family members;
- Corporate outings;
- Remuneration package will depend on the skills and expertise of the candidate.
Notes:
- If a candidate has no experience in regulatory reporting and/or has no understanding of financial instruments, we do not want to receive their cv’s.
- Successful candidates will be offered a small test.
- Mind the key points in candidate search shall be (1) the experience in regulatory reporting and (2) deep understanding of financial instruments and reporting requirements.
- Working from distance will not be possible.
- Work permit may be offered by the Company to a successful candidate.
- We shall collect internal and external due diligence and references. Successful candidates shall be required to provide a reference letter from a previous employer.
If you’re interested please send your CV to hr@skanestas.com
Legal Officer
Full time, work from the Company office.
Reporting to the Head of Legal Department / Senior Management.
A traditional brokerage firm based in Limassol, Cyprus, wishes to recruit an experienced Legal Officer. The successful candidate will have 3 years of experience in similar role in a financial services firm or a bank. You will be providing legal advice on business matters and operational needs of the Company. This is an opportunity to join a company with vision and targets. The opening is due to growing needs and horizons.
Main duties and responsibilities:
- Assisting businesses to prevent, navigate, and resolve legal issues;
- Assisting and advising businesses on establishing their company’s structure, policies, objectives, and procedures for their business operations;
- Ensuring all relevant laws and outcomes are understood and obeyed by businesses;
- Researching and resolving legal disputes through the analysis of relevant laws, argument development, forming a legal position;
- Drafting, reviewing, completing, and filing legal paperwork related to business operations;
- Examining and reporting any potential or existing legal issues to the relevant authorities;
- Negotiating contract terms, transactions on behalf of the businesses involved;
- Ensuring all business processes, strategies, and actions comply with all relevant local and international laws;
- Monitor legal risk in documentation and giving guidance on the acceptable assumption of risk;
- Explain the law and give legal advice;
- Draft, review and manage resolutions, contracts, agreements, and other internal legal documentation;
- Litigation experience in Cyprus would be an advantage.
Candidate profile:
- University/college degree in law. As an option – a postgraduate degree in any commercial law discipline, or any vocational title;
- At least 3 years of experience in a legal role in financial services or banking;
- Required areas of legal expertise: strong knowledge of civil law and Cyprus law. Knowledge of finance law is a must. Knowledge of Russian law basics and UK law basics is an advantage;
- Fluent spoken and written English and Russian languages are a must;
- Experience in drafting, negotiating, and reviewing legal documents;
- Analytical thinker with strong conceptual and research skills, attention to detail;
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines;
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Company benefits:
- 21 days of annual leave;
- Private medical insurance for all family members;
- Corporate outings;
- Remuneration package will depend on the skills and expertise of the candidate.
Notes:
- Successful candidates will be offered a small test;
- Working from distance will not be possible;
- Work permit may be offered by the Company to a successful candidate;
- We shall collect internal and external due diligence and references. Successful candidates shall be required to provide a reference letter from a previous employer.
If you’re interested please send your CV to hr@skanestas.com
Data Scientist (Quantitative Analyst)
A Quantitative Analyst is needed for the full-time position in Limassol, Cyprus at traditional broker/Investment Company (non-forex).
Requirements:
- Higher education in statistics, mathematics or computer science
- From 2 years of practical experience in the position of Quantitative Analyst / Data Scientist. The presence of real cases in the portfolio – working with big data and their practical application
- Strong knowledge in statistics, calculus, linear algebra, probability theory, machine learning
- Knowledge of the Python programming language at the Middle + and higher level (advanced knowledge of libraries is required: numpy, pandas, skipy, statsmodels, one of the ML libraries – sklearn, tensorflow, keras, pytorch)
- Object Oriented Programming – Advanced
- Working with API (socket, get / rest requests)
- Tuning the code in terms of maximizing the speed of work (multithreading, lambda expressions, etc., redistribution of the computational load of the CPU – GPU)
- Database administration, confident knowledge of PostgeSQL, advanced knowledge of the T-SQL language (writing complex queries, procedures, triggers)
- Knowledge of MATLAB, R, C ++ languages will be an advantage
- Good communication skills in English (written and oral). Knowledge of the Russian language is a plus
- Experience with Bloomberg / CQG / TWS terminals is a plus
Duties:
- Creation of complex trading algorithms, statistical models
- Conducting in-depth analysis of data in order to identify patterns for use in real exchange trading
- Working with databases: filling, error control, optimization, backup
- Working with API of various software products and resources
- Writing desktop applications for data management tasks, visualization of algorithms, notification systems, etc.
- Generation of ideas in the direction of the development of all systems, participation in brainstorming
Company benefits:
- The company offers its employees assistance in moving to Cyprus (assistance in finding accommodation, obtaining a visa, etc.)
- Competitive remuneration package
- Free medical insurance
- Comfortable office, advanced hardware and software
- Friendly team
If you’re interested please send your CV to hh@skanestas.com
Trader
Trader needed for the full-time position in Limassol, Cyprus at traditional broker (non-forex) Investment Company.
Duties:
- Client orders execution
- Generating trade ideas
- Enhancing trading infrastructure
- Participating in other projects of the company
Qualifications and Experience:
- University Degree in Math/Finance/Financial Services will be considered as advantage;
- 2 -5 yrs experience;
- Holder of CySEC Advanced Certificate or willing to pass it within 3 month time is an advantage;
- Track record is an advantage. Real account.
- Good communication skills in English, written & verbal.
- Russian language knowledge is an advantage
- Teamwork and fast learning skills
Special Qualifications Requirements:
If you’re interested in Trader vacancy, please send your CV to hh_trading@skanestas.com
