Job Summary
The role drives the execution of the MAR Trade Surveillance strategy for Surveillance Effectiveness & Data.
Specific roles and responsibilities include:
- Completion of surveillance effectiveness reviews, including the review of scenario logics and operational effectiveness for cross product surveillance scenarios.
- Design of BRDs for automated surveillance, for the automation of manual surveillance and / or design of new scenarios to mitigate residual risks for the surveillance programme, including cross product surveillance.
- Working closely with BAU stakeholders to identify and document Market Data requirements for all applicable assessment units (including new data sourcing and enhancing existing feeds). Specifically, this should include the additional market data requirements for cross product correlation matrices.
Key Responsibilities
Surveillance Effectiveness
- Design of scenarios which align to the risk characteristics as closely as possible, to ensure that scenarios obtain optimal logic effectiveness.
- Providing end-to-end support across the scenario development journey, working closely with colleagues in change management and Technology. This would include answering detailed queries, data analysis, seeking decisions on potential problems and reviewing alternative proposals.
- Leading UAT processes for newly designed Cross Product scenarios.
- Completion of surveillance effectiveness reviews, including the review of scenario logics and operational effectiveness.
Data Coverage and Onboarding
- Working closely with BAU stakeholders to identify and document Market Data requirements for all applicable assessment units (including new data sourcing and enhancing existing feeds).
- Reviewing market abuse risk behaviour characteristics to ensure that scenarios; including those which are live, under development or planned to be developed; can utilise market data at the appropriate granularity required.
- Working closely with the Data team to ensure that appropriate data quality controls are implemented for new market data sources, with alerts to detect issues regarding completeness or data quality.
- Ongoing review of CDEs for appropriateness, including the addition of new CDEs for more complex scenarios within the scenario development BoW. Ensuring that the requirements for said CDEs are clear, and that the data teams can source the appropriate data elements in-line with said scenarios.
- Perform pre-liminary scenario impact assessments referencing the market abuse risk assessment for t-shirt sizing of additional data feeds, ensuring that high level business requirements are clear and appropriately documented.
Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree with relevant experience in financial services, preferably within surveillance, compliance, or data-driven risk environments.
- Good understanding of trade surveillance concepts and market abuse risks, with hands-on exposure to scenario design and surveillance effectiveness reviews, particularly in cross-product contexts.
- Experience working with financial market datasets, including understanding of key data elements used to support surveillance scenarios.
- Exposure to data onboarding and data quality processes, including supporting definition of data requirements and validation of new or enhanced data feeds.
- Ability to support documentation of business and data requirements (e.g. BRDs), working with stakeholders to capture and translate requirements clearly
- Strong analytical skills with ability to review data, identify inconsistencies, and support analysis of surveillance scenarios and outcomes.
- Experience collaborating with data, technology, and surveillance teams, supporting delivery activities including testing, and implementation of surveillance scenarios.
- Good understanding of financial market products and structures (across asset classes and venues), with ability to link product characteristics to surveillance data and scenario design.
- Strong communication skills with ability to produce clear documentation and engage effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.
Together we:
- Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
- Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
- Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
What we offer
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
- Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
- Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
- Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
- A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
- Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.