Head of Middle Office - Paris based

Our social interactions spark trends, shape movements, rock history, push stock values up and down. It’s about time we had a place to meet and collectively build our financial future – all of us, together.

Shares is not only a serious trading platform that opens up the stock market to everyone – with no minimum investment – it’s also a fun, hive-like social community where members engage, learn, swap knowledge and help each other make informed decisions.

Every feature inside Shares was designed to fit the way people connect today. It’s simple and straightforward to use and let's people chat, share, follow, tag and engage with groups in a seamless flow – all inside a secure real-time trading platform.

The people-driven revolution in financial markets is already well underway. We’ve just built in the social motor so that every human can join the conversation and get their fair share of the market in a way that’s safe, fun, educational and collectively inspiring. We are backed by top tier venture capital firms based in the US and Europe.

In the context of our expansion in Europe, we are looking for our Head of Middle Office in France.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Monitor the functioning of all trading systems and platforms.
• Monitors the streaming of stock pricing throughout the whole stock market session, ensuring it is in line with market participants and exchanges.
• Assists clients and colleagues with queries regarding stock trading and other instruments available for use by the client.
• Reconciles the orders executed on a continuous basis.
• Responsible for monitoring and assessing the Best Execution requirements of the Company.
• Investigates and resolves client complaints and requests regarding stocks trading.
• Liaises with internal and external parties in regards to the pricing and execution of orders.
• Investigates irregular transactions of clients and potential market abuse.
• Performs competitive analysis and highlights potential improvements and new market trends in regards to the stock market.
• Helps Support teams in handling trade related queries and complaints, while resolving them in a timely and professional manner.
• Carries out trade surveillance, investigates irregular activity across a wide range of asset classes and reports any suspicious activities to the Compliance department.
• Works on developing new tools to facilitate daily operations.
• Produces necessary complex reports as required by company’s management and regulatory bodies.
• Performs any additional duties and localised tasks as and when is required, working cross functionally (aka with Compliance etc) as required

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years in a brokerage department at a similar financial institution
• Holding an AMF certification is a plus
• College or University Degree in Finance, Mathematics, Economics, or any other related field.
• Experience with transferable securities.
• Fluency in English, both oral and written. Knowledge of French is a plus.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• You're a problem-solver and have the ability to identify root causes of issues through rigorous logic and thought. Subsequently the ability to execute, implement process, and scale.
• Proven experience in building and managing teams.
• Superb attention to detail.
• Excellent team player.