Assistant Manager - Trade Surveillance

Some careers shine brighter than others. 

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be. HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with operations in 62 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realize their ambitions. We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Assistant Manager – Trade Surveillance.

Job Responsibilities: 

• To carry out extensive reviews of trade surveillance in a review tool for market abuse/ anti-competitive behaviors. Escalate issues as appropriate.
• Review, investigate and analyze alerts generated by the voice surveillance systems and escalate issues as appropriately.
• Undertake daily, weekly and monthly monitoring tests to ensure that the risks within the Surveillance RC monitoring plan are mitigated.
• Analyze and articulately escalate potential breaches to onshore RC colleagues.
• Assist in training requirements of the new staff that have joined the team.

Job Requirements: 

• Graduate level candidate with experience in Surveillance or Compliance environment is preferable (but not essential).
• An interest, and knowledge, of financial markets, various asset classes and regulation is required.
• Excellent system skills as the role includes a requirement to undertake complex behavior analysis derived from various data sources.
• Ability to support decisions with sound reasoning and clearly articulate business and regulatory implications of the analysis and findings.
• Ability to work under pressure and within tight timelines.
• Excellent time management and prioritization of work task.
• Exemplary interpersonal and communication skills.
• Utilizes own initiative to resolve issues.
• Need to be flexible to work in shifts.

What additional skills will be good to have? 

• Experience in Monitoring and Surveillance or related environment is preferred.
• A good knowledge in Excel with ability to use macros to help solve non-standard problems.
• An interest in systems and applying them to the analysis of both large amounts and different types of data.
• Research, analysis, report writing, process improvement, project management.
• Knowledge of systems such as NICE, Actimize, Bloomberg, is desirable but not essential.
• Able to navigate Eikon and Bloomberg systems.

Candidate with less relevant experience or skills may be offered a lower Global Career Band than stated above.

Due to the urgent hiring need, candidates with immediate right to work locally and no relocation need will be prioritized.

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