Huddlestock Investor Services is looking for a Head of Legal & Compliance who possesses a strong grasp of securities trading legislation, finance, and securities markets. The importance of legal focus, compliance, and risk management has been steadily growing, leading us to strengthen our team in this area.

We seek someone who:

• Likely works in law, compliance, risk management, or within an investment firm, mutual fund, law firm, or alternative investment fund. Experience in other regulated activities is also valuable.
• Is proactive, solution-oriented, and keen on contributing to our company’s development.

As the Head of Legal & Compliance at Huddlestock Investor Services, you will join a team of 8 people, engaging in diverse and extensive tasks. Your responsibilities will include ensuring our operations align with applicable laws, regulations, internal guidelines, and other provisions. You’ll play a pivotal role in creating awareness, training, implementing necessary controls, and overseeing their execution. Additionally, there may be involvement in establishing and maintaining routines and control systems for effective management of the group’s capital, assessing their adequacy, providing input for risk mandates and frameworks, designing compliance and risk follow-up models and systems, identifying data sources, and ensuring data quality for controls.

Your role will also include monitoring and controlling risk mandates and frameworks, preparing reports for the management and the group’s board. The workplace will be in Oslo or Stavanger, Norway.

Work Assignments

Your operational responsibilities will include:

• Providing legal support for contractual, commercial, and administrative matters
• Assisting group companies with general administrative and legal issues periodically
• Designing, reviewing, and negotiating commercial and employment contracts
• Participating in tender preparations and negotiating complex tenders with legal intricacies
• Managing the resolution of contractual disputes and engaging external legal resources as required
• Monitoring relevant regulatory developments in Norway and internationally
• Establishing and maintaining routines and control systems for effective business management
• Regularly assessing the adequacy of routines and control measures
• Reporting to management and the board
• Conducting employee training on current regulations, guidelines, and routines
• Engaging in ongoing discussions with external legal advisors

Additionally, you’ll collaborate closely with management, providing assistance in:

• Internal control and operational risk assessments, including annual risk assessment and reporting
• Follow-up of supplier agreements
• Providing input on risk mandates and frameworks
• Designing and creating models and systems for risk monitoring
• Identifying data sources and ensuring data quality for compliance and risk control
• Monitoring and controlling risk mandates and frameworks, preparing reports for the company’s management and board

Qualifications:

• Higher economic or legal education
• Minimum of 3 years of work experience in a regulated business, law firm, or relevant fields, preferably with experience in legal or compliance work, risk management, or middle office tasks
• Good knowledge of current securities market laws and regulations, with a solid understanding of regulations
• Proficiency in asset management, investment services, and finance
• Strong IT knowledge is advantageous

Personal Characteristics:

The ideal candidate will be accurate, analytical, proactive, and quality-conscious, adept at handling both complex and routine tasks independently and in a structured manner. Collaboration and a solution-oriented mindset are essential, along with a positive work ethic and the ability to deliver work promptly, maintaining high quality within specified deadlines and frameworks. Proficiency in Norwegian and English (both written and spoken) is mandatory. You may be required to travel occasionally as part of the role.

We Offer:

• An independent role in a competent and positive working environment
• Opportunities for professional and personal growth
• Strategic expansion of the company into other EU countries
• Competitive benefits including comprehensive insurance and pension schemes

Are you a passionate software engineer who loves the .NET platform and modern technologies?

Are you not scared of new challenges and complex technical problems?

Do you want to work in the Azure cloud, with the latest technologies and solve complex scaling problems?

Would you like to use your technical skills to improve the financial lives of millions of people around the globe?

If you agree with the above, we want to meet you!

We are looking for a .NET software engineer who wants to impact what we build, how we build it, and also how we work as a member of an autonomous and multi-functional team where humility is key.

We have built a wide ecosystem of applications in the cloud that various financial institutions can use to operate their business and deliver financial products and services to their customers. We provide the “pipes and plumbing” for digitalizing capital and investment markets, and our purpose is to empower our clients to deliver access to global capital markets through simple, accessible, and personalized trading, investing, and lending solutions.

The required skillset

For this position, you will require:

• Perfect knowledge of the .NET platform and C# language
• In-depth understanding of system design and data structures
• Great understanding of cloud technologies and concepts, e.g. serverless and event-driven development
• Azure cloud and Azure DevOps CI/CD (or GitHub flows)

The nice to have:

• Previous experience working with document-based databases
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
• Fintech or other financial experience
• Exposure to PowerShell scripting

On the softer side. Be kind. Be responsible. Know your stuff and be eager to learn. Have an idea and make it come true. Pitch in. Have fun. Care about the job. Care about your mates. Make a playlist everyone hates.

Competitive salary with an attractive benefits package.

Type of employment:

Full-time, permanent job, hybrid-remote

We are flexible regarding time and remote work since we are all about ROWE, but this role is based in Skövde, so we want to see you at the office to work with the team as much as possible.

We are not looking for consultants so please don’t bother! We love this blog post and invest in our in-house team for the long term!

Our main office is in Skövde, Sweden and we also have a presence in Stockholm as well as Stavanger and Oslo in Norway in addition to Munich, Germany and London, England. 

We cannot offer sponsorships, and you should be within 2 hours of Skövde, Sweden.

Are you not scared of managing physical and VPN networks, databases, cloud infrastructure, and providing IT support?

Do you want to try something new and maybe start with programming?

Are you willing to learn more about DevOps or the optimization of databases?

Do you love to solve IT and technical problems and help your coworkers?

Would you like to use your technical skills to improve the financial lives of millions of people around the globe?

If you agree with the above, we might want to meet you!

We are looking for an IT engineer who wants to impact what we build, how we build it, and also how we work as a member of an autonomous and multi-functional team where humility is key.

We have built a wide ecosystem of applications in the cloud that various financial institutions can use to operate their business and deliver financial products and services to their customers. We provide the “pipes and plumbing” for digitalizing capital and investment markets, and our purpose is to empower our clients to deliver access to global capital markets through simple, accessible, and personalized trading, investing, and lending solutions.

The required skillset

Experience

• Administration of servers and Windows workstations
  
• Basic knowledge of networking and VPN
• Understanding of cloud technologies and resources (Azure)
• IT support-solving skills

The nice to have’s

• Previous experience working with databases
• Knowledge of managing infrastructure in cloud base environments
• Exposure to PowerShell scripting
• DevOps and managing platforms
• Ambitions in software development

On the softer side. Be kind. Be responsible. Know your stuff and be eager to learn. Have an idea and make it come true. Pitch in. Have fun. Care about the job. Care about your mates. Make a playlist everyone hates.

Competitive salary, flexible and friendly working environment. Attractive benefits package.

Type of employment:

Full-time, permanent job, hybrid-remote

We are looking to hire a new member who can be available in our main office in Skövde, Sweden. At the same time, we are flexible regarding time and remote work since we are all about ROWE.

We are not looking for consultants, so please don’t bother! We love this blog post and invest in our in-house team for the long term!

We cannot offer sponsorships, and you should be within 2 hours of Skövde, Sweden.

Are you a developer with a keen interest in the financial markets?

Do you agree that a balance between business needs and technology is key to successful companies?

Do you love designing applications and seeing them being used by happy customers?

Would you like to use your technical skills to improve the financial lives of millions of people around the globe?

If you agree with the above, we want to meet you!

We are looking for full stack developers within .NET who want to impact what we build, how we build it and also how we work as a member of an autonomous and multi-functional team where humility is key.

We have built a wide ecosystem of applications in the cloud which can be used by various financial institutions to operate their business and deliver financial products and services to their customers. We provide the “pipes and plumbing” for digitalizing capital and investment markets and our purpose is to empower our clients to deliver access to global capital markets through simple, accessible and personalized trading, investing and lending solutions.

The required skillset

Experience

• You care about quality and know the importance of shipping high-quality, easy, maintainable and extendable code
• In-depth understanding of system design and data structures

• Great understanding of cloud technologies

Qualifications

For this position, you will require a great understanding of:

• C# (.NET Framework, .NET Core, .NET 7)

• Some famous UI frameworks (we use Blazor and Angular)
• Infrastructure as Code (for example Bicep, Pulumi, or Terraform)
• Azure cloud and Azure DevOps CI/CD
• GitHub with GitHub Actions

The nice to have’s

• Previous experience working with document-based databases
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
• Fintech or other financial experience
• Exposure to PowerShell scripting

On the softer side. Be kind. Be responsible. Know your stuff and be eager to learn. Have an idea and make it come true. Pitch in. Have fun. Care about the job, care about your mates. Make a playlist everyone hates.

Make one that they love. Do all of the above.

You’ll fit right in.

Salary and benefits package:

Competitive salary

Attractive benefits package

Possible options package

Type of employment:

Full-time, permanent job

We are not looking for consultants so please don’t bother! We love this blog post https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/theory-building and we invest for the long term in our in-house team!

Our main office is in Skövde, Sweden and we also have a presence in Stockholm as well as Stavanger and Oslo in Norway in addition to Munich, Germany and London, England. We are flexible regarding time and remote work since we are all about ROWE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROWE but this role is based in Skövde so we want to see you at the office to work with the team as much as possible.

We cannot offer sponsorships and you need to be within 2 hours of Skövde, Sweden.

Are you a software tester with a keen interest in the financial markets?

Do you agree that a balance between business needs and technology is key to successful companies?

Do you care about quality and know the importance of shipping products with as few bugs as possible?

Do you love testing all sorts of odd cases to make sure that nothing can break a new function before it is released?

Would you like to use your testing skills to improve the financial lives of millions of people around the globe?

If you agree with the above, we might want to meet you!

We are looking for a quality assurance engineer who can help us deploy reliable software solutions. Who can execute manual test scenarios and write automated test cases together with maintenance and improvements of testing processes as a member of an autonomous and multi-functional team where humility is key.

We have built a wide ecosystem of applications in the cloud which can be used by various financial institutions to operate their business and deliver financial products and services to their customers. We provide the “pipes and plumbing” for digitalizing capital and investment markets and our purpose is to empower our clients to deliver access to global capital markets through simple, accessible and personalized trading, investing and lending solutions.

The required skillset

Qualifications

For this position, you will require a great understanding of:

• Software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Manual regression testing and execution of test cases

• Perform API testing using appropriate tools, e.g. Postman, Testfully, or Postcode
• Basic knowledge and willingness to learn the creation of automation tests in Selenium and C# language

The nice to have’s

• Knowledge of Azure DevOps

• Previous experience with SQL and scripting
• Fintech or other financial experience
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) methodology, its principles, and practical implementation

On the softer side. Be kind. Be responsible. Know your stuff and be eager to learn. Have an idea and make it come true. Pitch in. Have fun. Care about the job, care about your mates. Make a playlist everyone hates.

Make one that they love. Do all of the above.

You’ll fit right in.

Salary and benefits package:

Competitive salary

Attractive benefits package

Type of employment:

Full-time, permanent job

We are not looking for consultants so please don’t bother! We love this blog post https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/theory-building/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter and we invest for the long term in our in-house team!

Our main office is in Skövde, Sweden and we also have a presence in Stockholm as well as Stavanger and Oslo in Norway in addition to Munich, Germany and London, England. We are flexible regarding time and remote work since we are all about ROWE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROWE.

We cannot offer sponsorships and we are looking to hire new members which are based in the countries where we have a legal presence which are Sweden, Norway, Germany or United Kingdom