Manager - Compliance

Our Corporate Compliance team is the strategic backbone of integrity at CME Group, ensuring we navigate the global financial landscape with precision, transparency, and trust. In this role, you aren’t just a gatekeeper; you are an architect of culture. You will blend regulatory rigor with innovative systems design to fortify our global ethical framework and drive operational excellence across the world’s leading derivatives marketplace.

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.Learn more about our career opportunities here.

What You'll Do

1.) Policy Design and Governance 

• Lead the Corporate Compliance Management System, serving as its lead architect to evolve, document, and scale its design for a global footprint.

• Orchestrate the lifecycle of corporate policies, translating complex regulatory shifts into clear, actionable enterprise-wide standards through both annual reviews and agile amendments.

• Modernize existing compliance workflows, relentlessly pursuing resource optimization and process efficiency to keep the organization lean and compliant.

2.) Global Learning & Training 

• Revolutionize our global learning footprint by designing immersive, high-impact e-learning modules that bring the Code of Conduct, AML, and Anti-Bribery values to life.

• Architect and deliver an engaging annual communication and training strategy to ensure enterprise-wide reach and alignment with global ethics requirements.

3.) Risk Insights & Reporting 

• Leverage data and risk insights to identify trends, optimize internal controls, and deliver high-stakes updates to Management and the Risk Committee.

• Synthesize deep business-unit intelligence to proactively identify and evaluate potential compliance risks before they emerge.

• Bridge cross-functional silos—collaborating with HR, Global Information Security, and Regulatory Compliance—to lead periodic monitoring and auditing programs.

What You'll Bring

• 8-10+ years of sophisticated experience executing comprehensive compliance programs within a regulated, multi-national financial environment.

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree (Advanced degree or JD preferred) and a proven track record of interpreting complex legal requirements into practical business applications.

• Master the discipline of project management, successfully driving complex, cross-functional initiatives while balancing competing global priorities.

• Influence stakeholders with ease, utilizing superior relationship management skills to build consensus across different regions and organizational levels.

• Analyze data with an investigative mindset, ensuring exceptionally high attention to detail and accuracy in all policy and reporting outputs.

• Communicate with assertiveness and clarity, maintaining the professional tact and sound judgment required to handle sensitive ethical inquiries and high-pressure deadlines.

• Apply technical fluency in GRC platforms (such as Archer, Workday, or LRN) and Google Workspace to drive digital transformation within the compliance function.

• Embody a continuous improvement mindset, staying ahead of the curve on evolving global ethics requirements and data privacy landscapes.

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CME Group is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package for our employees that recognizes their contributions to the business and reflects our long-term investment in their future. The pay range for this role is $119,900-$199,800. Actual salary offered will be dependent on a wide array of factors including but not limited to: relevant experience, skills, education and comparison to internal employees (where relevant). Our compensation program also includes an annual target bonus opportunity for all employees, as well as the opportunity to become an owner in the company through our broad-based equity program. Through our benefits program, we strive to offer flexibility, value and choice. From comprehensive health coverage, to a retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active pension plan, to highly competitive education reimbursement provisions, paid time off and a mental health benefit, CME Group offers a holistic benefits package for our team and their dependents.

CME Group: Where Futures are Made

CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more.

At CME Group, we embrace our employees' unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued. As an equal-opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.

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