Manager - Market Data Compliance & Assurance

CMEOL CME Operations Ltd.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career progression

Diverse exposure

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

CME Group seeks an Audit Manager for Market Data Compliance and Assurance to govern global data usage and licensing across customers. You will lead audits, analyze data consumption, and drive improvements in policy adherence with cross‑functional teams.

The role requires extensive experience in market data audits, strong policy knowledge, and the ability to manage audits worldwide. An MBA or MS is preferred, with a proactive, global mindset.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of market data audit or data management experience.
• Experience conducting on-site and remote audits of financial institutions or vendors.
• Strong knowledge of market data policies and licensing.
• Proven ability to negotiate audit claims and manage compliance risk.
• Excellent stakeholder management and written/verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Execute a program of customer compliance and auditing to protect CME Group’s intellectual property and revenue.
• Prepare for audits by gathering all materials and documenting procedures.
• Coordinate with auditees to set expectations, timelines, and required data.
• Conduct on-site market data audits and analyze consumption, inventory, and permissioning systems.
• Present findings with actionable recommendations to leadership and auditees.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external customers to ensure compliant processes with minimal disruption.

Skills

Market data audits

On-site & remote audits

Data policy knowledge

Customer relationships

Process improvement

Advanced Excel

Education

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

Master’s degree (MBA or MS) preferred

Tools

Excel advanced

Salesforce

Job description

The Audit Manager of Market Data Compliance and Assurance is essential to the global governance of CME Group’s commercial Data Services business. The role will be responsible for the execution of market data audits spanning CME Group’s diverse customer base to ensure market data and derived data policies are being adhered to and that use of intellectual property is correctly licensed to and reported by customers globally. The successful candidate will warrant CME Group market data is used in accordance with existing vendor and customer agreements, and grow customer understanding of managing CME Group market data effectively. The role will deploy and develop best practice guidelines in the conduct of customer audits. The successful candidate should have a strong working knowledge of conducting both on-site and remote audits of major financial institutions and information/software vendors.

What You’ll Get

• A supportive environment fostering career progression, continuous learning, and an inclusive culture.
• Broad exposure to CME's diverse products, asset classes, and cross-functional teams.
• A competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• Explore our full range of benefits

What You’ll Do

• Execute a program of customer compliance and auditing to protect CME Group’s intellectual property, minimize revenue leakage and optimize revenue recovery
• Effectively research and prepare for customer audits, collating all of the appropriate materials to inform the audit visit
• Communicate with audited firms to clearly articulate expected collaboration, materials required and to manage both expectations and timeframes efficiently. and commercial policy/licensing opportunities
• Perform on-site market data audits, analyzing all applications and systems related to market data consumption, investigating and analyzing inventory management and permissioning systems to ensure CME has a comprehensive and complete overview of a firm’s market data consumption
• Provide clear written and verbal insight and analysis of findings to auditee and Data Services' leadership, with analysis of findings and recommendations on future customer compliance focus and any financial liability found
• Work with and develop relationships with team members, internal CME Group stakeholders, and external customers on a global basis to promote and support compliance with policies and ensure effective audit processes with minimum disruption to customers

What You’ll Bring

• 6 - 10 years demonstrable experience in market data audit or market data management, with experience of conducting on-site and remote market data audits
• 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 (but not limited to) major and niche information vendors, investment banks, online trading platforms, high frequency and proprietary trading firms
• Development and maintenance of good customer relationships
• Proven background in analyzing, designing and implementing processes and policies to improve efficiencies and achieve desired objectives with a strong bias towards 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, etc.)
• Knowledge of third party market data inventory management systems (MDM, InfoMatch etc.)
• Advanced Knowledge of Microsoft Office with emphasis on high degree of proficiency in Excel including the use of financial formulas, data analysis and pivot table features is a must.
• Proficiency in Salesforce helpful
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Information Systems; a Master’s degree (MBA or MS) is preferred.

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