Job description
In Deals we solve the important problems that stand in the way of value being created, sustained, realised or protected for our clients – working together to aid responsible recovery and growth. Working on iconic deals with national and global clients, we put together major mergers and acquisitions and resolve business crises - from international take-over bids to financial crime investigations and cases of insolvency. We draw upon our deals experience across many industries to support and partner with our clients, to positively impact society and the communities in which we operate.
About our team
Our Market Abuse team sits within the UK Financial Crime team. We work with clients to investigate and remediate issues, transform financial crime functions and prepare for and respond to regulation and regulatory scrutiny. Our team offers expertise in financial services, regulatory analysis, policy and technology. This expertise allows us to facilitate responsive and robust investigations driven by analytics, remediation built around technologies to improve efficiency and a data driven technology response to regulation and regulation enforcement.
Our Market Abuse team supports clients active in financial markets and commodities markets as they seek to manage their market abuse and financial crime risks. The team combines regulatory, risk, markets expertise and data and technology experts. All team members are encouraged to continue developing their own skill set, and we support continuing professional development in capabilities suitable for each individual.
Your Main Responsibilities will include the following:
Supporting market abuse vendor evaluations and assistance for surveillance strategic roadmaps
Market abuse surveillance implementation and calibration (e.g. detection scenario selection, instance identification, testing, parameter setting and tuning)
Data driven surveillance effectiveness review and optimisation
Reviewing end-to-end data and process flow supporting surveillance implementations
Supporting market abuse risk assessment activities and assistance in dealing with regulatory enquiries
Actively contributing on client-facing project work, being self-starting and motivated to produce the required high standard of deliverables
Actively contributing to business development and proposition development activities, supporting sales activities.
Essential skills:
In order to be successful you will need to show ability in most of the following areas:
Experience of market abuse surveillance functions and solutions
Experience of market abuse vendor solution implementation and refinement
Knowledge of different types of market abuse risks and their manifestations
Experience of hands on data analysis, and summarising data for senior stakeholders
Demonstrable technical knowledge of specific wholesale banking products and asset classes or commodities products
Knowledge and interest in the Market Abuse regulatory environment
Experience of risk management tasks and approaches
Ability to comfortably discuss and explain technical matters to technical and non-technical audiences
Desirable skills:
Demonstrable evidence of technical, data and coding capabilities
Demonstrable evidence of interest in regulatory or compliance risk