Trade Surveillance Analyst

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Job description

Trade Surveillance Analyst - Permanent - City of London

Our Client, a leading international Financials Services business, is looking for a Trade Surveillance Analyst for its London office. These Analysts will review and analyse trading activity of the firm's customers to identify potential breaches of market conduct rules or market related financial crime. Our Client does not use vendor solutions, rather it builds its own proprietary surveillance capability, leveraging its historical proprietary trading background. The role, therefore, offers interesting work and challenges, and opportunities for deep dive investigations versus the mass false positive alert processing roles offered in many other financial institutions.

If you are motivated, have strong initiative, are analytical and methodical; this position will both challenge and reward you while becoming part of a team that is building one of the world's strongest brands.

Responsibilities:

• Conducting trade surveillance and monitoring of transactions on EEA markets, including OTC and any product(s) that our client offers, for potential insider dealing or market manipulation
• Ensuring appropriate and timely alert management, following standards for closure or escalation
• Documenting surveillance reviews, investigations, and other activities following guidelines
• Assisting with the on-going design, development and calibration of reports and systems to help identify suspicious transaction
• Preparing STORs for submission to FCA
• Assisting with written responses to inquiries from the FCA, other European regulators or exchanges regarding trading activity by customers
• Liaising with global colleagues to ensure all impacted legal entities are informed of suspicious activity and working closely with the AML team

Qualifications:

• Background in customer trading surveillance preferred
• Strong product knowledge of equity or exchange traded derivative markets' or, preferably, both
• Solid academic background
• Solid knowledge of EU market conduct rules and market regulations
• High degree of comfort with computers and technology, and understanding of how technology is applied to business and regulatory problems;
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a small-team and fast-paced environment; and to work independently and to multi-task with minimal supervision
• Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail
• Strong judgment and decision-making skill