Surveillance IT Analyst

Summary

The Surveillance function, sitting within Compliance, monitors Market Conduct, Financial Crime (which includes money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery and corruption, sanctions breaches, facilitation of tax evasion, fraud, modern slavery, insider dealing and market manipulation) and Conflicts of Interest risks. Automated transactional and communication monitoring systems provide daily capabilities across key market abuse and financial crime behaviours for review by team analysts. A manual monitoring programme supplements the automated generation, allowing for larger scale data reviews across asset classes and communication media formats.

Surveillance works closely with Compliance IT to assist development and maintenance of the automated monitoring and other related systems. This ensures the continued innovation and enhancement of the systems to meet new regulatory requirements, changes in business strategy and emerging risks within the Firm.

In addition to transaction and communication surveillance, the Surveillance team is tasked broadly with other aspects of Market Conduct and Financial Crime Compliance including adhoc investigations into reports of suspicious behaviour, suspicious transaction and activity reporting, training, policy and procedure drafting, and leading bank-wide risk assessments.

Job Purpose:

This is a Surveillance IT analyst role sitting within the Surveillance Governance and Controls (G&C). G&C are responsible for performing governance and assurance over the Surveillance controls programme. This role will provide dedicated analytical and technical support to the team to ensure that the technical rule reviews and enhancements can be progressed in a timely manner. As well as assistance with rule reviews, this role will assist broadly with the G&C work programme with a number of key responsibilities spanning data lineage, data accuracy and completeness, release testing and updates to documentation.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Assist the team by performing technical analysis during rule reviews to ensure an accurate understanding of rule logic and parameters.
2. Document requirements stemming from identified issues or enhancements.
3. Assist with parameter assessments / above and below the line testing.
4. Work closely with Compliance (Control) IT to understand rule logic, consider technical approaches to enhancements, estimate development timelines etc for prioritisation.
5. Formulate testing approaches, test plans and test cases.
6. Assist the team with UAT.
7. Assist with root cause analysis and follow-up of corrective action in relation to data gaps or other data related issues.
8. Updating rule specification documents.
9. Other general work items to assist and expedite the G&C work programme.

Required Skills, Knowledge, Experience and Values:

1. Strong Business Analyst experience.
2. Strong technical experience (database query, code review etc.).
3. Good knowledge of SQL.
4. Technical understanding of Surveillance systems across market abuse and financial crime risk.
5. Experience working with Compliance business stakeholders.
6. Good understanding of business change and software development life cycles.
7. Strong drafting and presentation skills.
8. Wholesale or Commercial banking background.
9. Product knowledge: OTCs, Swaps, Derivatives, Bonds, ETDs and Cash Equity nice to have.
10. Experience of working in a FO domain nice to have.
11. Mandarin nice to have.

Values and Behaviours:

1. Flexible mindset.
2. Pays attention to detail.
3. Self driven.
4. High level of integrity.
5. Aptitude for learning.
6. Open and inclusive.
7. Accountable.
8. Driven to improve and simplify.
9. Delivers quality work product.