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Senior Adviser, Market Infrastructure

2 months ago

Manukau, Auckland, New Zealand Financial Markets Authority Full time

Who we are - Ko wai mātou


The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) plays a critical role in regulating capital markets and financial services in New Zealand, ultimately providing better outcomes for investors, customers, participants, and for the New Zealand economy.


He angitūtanga:
The opportunity


We are currently looking for a
Senior Adviser to join the Market Infrastructure team on a 14-month fixed term contract.


You'll be involved in providing senior expertise and advice for the Market Infrastructure team to provide guidance and expectations of licensing, develop best practice assurance programmes to monitor the compliance of the regulated populations, and to respond to regulatory requests and remit changes.

Our work covers a broad range of interesting issues, which can be quite complex and novel, and plays an important role in ensuring resilience of key market infrastructures.


Focus for this role would be on:

  • Licensing and exemption assessments of
    financial product market operators, and providing advice to the Minister
  • Monitoring licensed market operators, undertaking and publishing reviews of compliance with obligations and approving/declining rule change requests. An example of such work can be found
    here, being the reviews of NZX as New Zealand's largest market operator
  • Monitoring of designated clearing & settlement systems (joint with RBNZ)
  • Development and implementation of the new
    Financial Markets Infrastructure regime including standard setting and review of systemic importance (joint with RBNZ)
  • Licensing and monitoring of Administrators of
    financial benchmarks

He kōrero mōu:
About you


This is a great opportunity for a technically excellent individual with a good knowledge of laws and regulations relevant to the financial sector.

You could be an experienced regulator, lawyer or have developed and implemented assurance/compliance monitoring programmes, systems and practices.

Here are some of the transferable skills you'd likely need to succeed in the role:

  • Ability to quickly and efficiently learn new content and processes
  • Strong analytical, critical thinking and reasoning skills
  • Exceptional interpersonal, communication and influencing skills
  • Genuine passion for ensuring that key market infrastructure providers are fit for purpose

Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou:
What we offer


Here at the FMA, we are passionate about providing our employees with the opportunity to make an impact in a place where the quality of our work and the measure of our influence is second to none.

We are committed to providing a dynamic, well-balanced and inspiring work environment to see you develop and succeed.

We offer flexible working arrangements and a variety of wellness activities.

A strong emphasis is placed on your life outside the workplace, and diversity and inclusion are championed in an environment where we all have the opportunity to reach our full potential.


Keen to learn more?

  • Reference #
  • 1470 Posted on
  • 11 Apr 202 Closes on
  • 19 Apr :00
  • Location(s)
  • Auckland, Wellington
  • Expertise
  • Capital markets, Conduct regulation
  • Job level(s)
  • Experienced
  • Work type(s)
  • Fixed term fulltime

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