Head of Compliance, European Energy Exchange

Etpa; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Direct access to CEO and Supervisory B

International team across Amsterdam, V

Regular company events

Job summary

Etpa, a European Power Exchange in Amsterdam, is seeking its first dedicated Compliance Officer to implement and run our control framework. You will interact with regulators, oversee licenses, audits, and reporting, and ensure governance aligns with industry standards.

You will own data protection, training, and participation governance, with a focus on non-discriminatory market terms. The role offers high visibility and an opportunity to shape a regulated market.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in compliance, regulatory affairs, legal or assurance within a regulated environment.
• Experience running a control framework and testing adherence.
• Legal background or ability to handle commercial questions with external counsel.
• Ability to tell the difference between a rule being broken and a situation that merely looks unusual.
• Fluency in English and willingness to work from the Amsterdam office.

Responsibilities

• Own and develop our compliance framework: policies, procedures, market rulebook and code of conduct.
• Act as our main contact for regulators and competent authorities, covering license matters, audits, inspections and regulatory reporting, and translate new regulatory developments affecting NEMOs and power trading venues into internal requirements.
• Maintain the compliance monitoring plan and the conflict of interest register, and report findings and remediation to the CEO and the Supervisory Board.
• Safeguard non-discriminatory treatment of our market participants, including the annual review confirming that everyone receives equal commercial and technical terms.
• Establish and administer the Exchange Council, our market participant body, and record its input on material changes to trading rules and systems.
• Design and deliver compliance training, and set the due diligence standard for participant onboarding.
• Own how confidential, market-sensitive and participant-specific information is protected, and make sure the controls around it work in practice.
• Decide who is admitted to sensitive information and on what terms, and keep that picture accurate as people, contracts and systems change.
• Own our data governance and data protection framework, including how data is classified, what can be released, and how it is retained and shared.
• Own the register of suspected breaches, lead investigations through to closure, and support external audits and independent assurance on our controls, information security and data handling.
• Advise the business on legal questions arising from new products, new markets and commercial arrangements.
• Draft and review participant agreements, vendor contracts, NDAs and other commercial documentation.
• Coordinate with external counsel where specialist input is needed, and support corporate governance and Board documentation.

Skills

Compliance expertise

Regulatory affairs

Legal background

English fluency

Education

Law degree or equivalent

Job description

Etpa, a European Power Exchange in Amsterdam, is seeking its first dedicated Compliance Officer to implement and run our control framework. You will interact with regulators, oversee licenses, audits, and reporting, and ensure governance aligns with industry standards.

You will own data protection, training, and participation governance, with a focus on non-discriminatory market terms. The role offers high visibility and an opportunity to shape a regulated market.