Senior Training Specialist, MRTS Training & Development at FINRA in Rockville, Maryland

Job Description:

FINRA is dedicated to protecting investors and ensuring the integrity of America's financial system. At FINRA we are focused on employee career development, offering learning opportunities, resources, and tools to help you achieve your professional aspirations. We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Training Specialist, MRTS Training & Development:

The Senior Training Specialist is responsible the maintenance and governance of MRTS Learning Programs including the Learning Management System (LMS), preparing course content for LMS and maintaining MRTS Learning Catalogs and Training portal; providing support to the Senior Director by scheduling, tracking, recording and reporting the training provided to MRTS staff and RSA exchanges. The Regulatory Training Specialist works with other training specialists in MRTS and Regulatory Operations to assist in the development, design and delivery of learning solutions that support FINRA’s mission of protecting investors and safeguarding market integrity in a manner that facilitates vibrant capital markets. This is competent-level professional work in which incumbents are refining and expanding skills and working under direct supervision and guidance.

Essential Job Functions:

• Serves as the MRTS Coordinator for the FINRA Learning Management System (LMS) and as a liaison between the LMS team and the Market Regulation Training Team.


• Maintains records and tracks all MRTS learning pathways, catalogs, and curriculums, including following up with and providing guidance to staff with respect to training requirements, and progress.


• Prepares and tracks Task Orders for external vendors and ensures that funds have been allocated for each course/vendor.


• Assists with administering training tasks requested by FINRA exchanges to meet their SRO commitments.


• Assists in designing and delivering learning solutions, especially in support of MRTS, in accordance with adult learning principles, as identified through MRTS programs through multiple learning methodologies (live in-classroom, live virtual presence, and asynchronous methods)


• Supports important MRTS training initiatives, including but not limited to Data Analytics, CAT, Securities Based Swaps, and Cryptocurrency by partnering with MRTS and FINRA subject matter experts and technology partners.

Education & Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, training, organizational development, or similar field and a minimum of three (3) years of related industry training experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.


• Minimum of one (1) year of training design and development experience preferred.


• Knowledge of securities industry rules, capital markets regulations, and guidelines and/or related securities industry experience is preferred.


• Competence using eLearning development tools (Articulate Storyline, Camtasia, Degreed etc.) is required.


• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite of applications.


• Excellent communication and writing skills. Ability to communicate and interact at both senior and junior levels of the organization.

Working Conditions:

• Work is normally performed in an office environment at FINRA.


• Work environment includes high productivity expectations and tight deadlines.

For work that is performed in CA, Washington, DC, CO, HI, New York, NY and WA, the chart below outlines the proposed salary range for the corresponding location. In addition to location, actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s skill set, level of experience, education, and internal peer compensation comparisons.

California: Minimum of $78,900, Maximum Salary $146,900

Washington, DC: Minimum Salary $78,900, Maximum Salary $140,800

Colorado/Hawaii: Minimum Salary $68,500, Maximum Salary $122,300
New York, NY: Minimum Salary $82,200, Maximum Salary $146,900

Washington State: Minimum Salary $68,500, Maximum Salary $140,800

#LI-Hybrid

To be considered for this position, please submit an application. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

The information provided above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work of the position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required.

Please note: If the “Apply Now” button on a job board posting does not take you directly to the FINRA Careers site, enter www.finra.org/careers into your browser to reach our site directly.

FINRA strives to make our career site accessible to all users. If you need a disability-related accommodation for completing the application process, please contact FINRA's Employee Relations team at 240.386.4865 or by email at EmployeeRelations@finra.org. Please note that this process is exclusively for inquiries regarding application accommodations. 

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. FINRA provides comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance.  Additional insurance includes basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal.  FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, tuition reimbursement and many other benefits. 

Time Off and Paid Leave*

FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways, including through a generous time-off program of 15 days of paid time off, 5 personal days and 9 sick days (all pro-rated in the first year). Additionally, we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule). Other paid leave includes military leave, jury duty leave, bereavement leave, voting and election official leave for federal, state or local primary and general elections, care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment). Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays.

*Based on full-time schedule

Important Information

FINRA’s Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees’ investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain, and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse, domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts. All of those accounts are subject to the Code’s investment and securities account restrictions, and new employees must comply with those investment restrictions—including disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRA’s Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice President—by the date they begin employment with FINRA. Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA, and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment.

You can read more about these restrictions here.

As standard practice, employees must also execute FINRA’s Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the company’s policy on nepotism.

Search Firm Representatives

Please be advised that FINRA is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice, a valid written agreement and task order must be in place before any resumes are submitted to FINRA. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at FINRA without a valid written agreement and task order in place will be deemed the sole property of FINRA and no fee will be paid in the event that person is hired by FINRA.

FINRA is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, disability, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal state or local laws as appropriate, or upon the protected status of the person’s relatives, friends or associates.

FINRA abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-741.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals on the basis of disability, and requires affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities.

FINRA abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-300.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified protected veterans, and requires affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans.

©2020 FINRA. All rights reserved. FINRA is a registered trademark of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.

Apply Now