Global Market Data Compliance Audit Lead

CME Group Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career progression

Exposure to CME products and cross‑fun

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

CME Group is seeking an Audit Manager for Market Data Compliance and Assurance to lead global audits across our data services. You will ensure licensing, policy adherence, and revenue integrity, working with a diverse customer base and cross-functional teams.

The role covers on-site and remote audits of major financial institutions, with opportunities to influence policy and process improvements while growing deep expertise in CME Group’s data products and governance framework.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years demonstrable experience in market data audit or market data management.
• Strong knowledge of financial exchanges' (equities or F&O), index providers' or information vendors' real time, end of day and derived data policies.
• Substantial experience in negotiating and settling audit claims resulting from identification of non-compliance with data usage policies.
• Knowledge of data consumer and data vendor firms globally, including major information vendors, investment banks and online trading platforms.
• Development and maintenance of good customer relationships.
• Experience designing and implementing processes to improve efficiencies with a bias toward continuous improvement.
• Financial Information Associate (FIA) certification or CPA welcomed.
• Knowledge of vendor and third party application providers’ products and market data systems management/permissioning systems (LSEG DACS, Wombat, Bloomberg B-Pipe).
• Knowledge of third party market data inventory management systems (MDM, InfoMatch).
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office with emphasis on Excel financial formulas, data analysis and pivot tables.
• Salesforce experience helpful.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Information Systems; MBA/MS preferred.

Responsibilities

• Execute a program of customer compliance and auditing to protect CME Group’s intellectual property, minimize revenue leakage and optimize revenue recovery.
• Research and prepare for customer audits, collating materials to inform the audit visit.
• Communicate with audited firms to articulate required collaboration, materials and manage expectations and timeframes.
• Perform on-site market data audits, analyzing applications and systems related to market data consumption and permissions.
• Provide written and verbal insights and recommendations to auditee and leadership.
• Work with teams and external customers globally to promote compliance with policies and ensure audit processes with minimal disruption to customers.

Skills

Market data audits

On-site auditing

Remote auditing

Data licensing

Stakeholder communication

Analytical reasoning

Excel expertise

Salesforce knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Information Systems

Master’s degree (MBA or MS) preferred

FIA certification or CPA welcomed

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Salesforce

MDM

InfoMatch

Bloomberg B-Pipe

Job description

CME Group is seeking an Audit Manager for Market Data Compliance and Assurance to lead global audits across our data services. You will ensure licensing, policy adherence, and revenue integrity, working with a diverse customer base and cross-functional teams.

The role covers on-site and remote audits of major financial institutions, with opportunities to influence policy and process improvements while growing deep expertise in CME Group’s data products and governance framework.