Communications Surveillance Officer (15 months)

NatWest Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-known banking institution in Manchester is seeking a Communications Surveillance Officer for a 15-month position. You’ll play a key role in monitoring trading activities and ensuring compliance with market regulations. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a familiarity with trading processes. This is a hybrid role, offering both office and home working opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience or interest in financial services businesses, especially investment banking.
• Familiarity with equities and fixed income market regulations.
• Previous involvement in project implementation.

Responsibilities

• Conduct surveillance checks and fact-finding reviews to monitor trading communication.
• Proactively identify emerging risks and recommend control enhancements.
• Analyze alerts and assist in the development of a surveillance program.

Skills

Logical and analytical skills

Attention to detail

Sourcing and assessing multiple data points

Understanding market regulations

Ability to solve complex problems

Good listening and influencing skills

Job description

Join us as a Communications Surveillance Officer

• You’ll play a vital role in undertaking surveillance checks and fact-finding reviews to monitor trading communication activities and ultimately ensure compliance with market conduct policies
• We’ll look to you to contribute to improving existing surveillance systems as well as assisting in driving new technological solutions
• You’ll have the opportunity to develop your analytical skills, in this collaborative and fast-paced role
• This is a Hybrid role that involves both Office and Home working
• This position is for a 15 month period

What you'll do

As a Communications Surveillance Officer, you’ll be analysing and pursuing potential breaches of policies using the suite of surveillance tools available.

You’ll monitor trading and communications activity for market conduct as well as workplace behaviour, client interactions, procedural compliance, price construction and other similar types of conduct risks and behaviours.

Your role will also involve:

• Pro-actively identifying potential or actual emerging risks and driving control enhancements to make sure that surveillance activities operate efficiently and provide appropriate risk mitigation
• Analysing activity for potential flags and escalating appropriately
• Assisting in providing in-depth analysis of alerts, including the use of market data and source system data, and market data
• Supporting the development and implementation of an annual surveillance programme of work that completes on time
• Keeping up to date with changing regulations and policies

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with experience of, or an interest in, financial services businesses including investment banking. It will be crucial for you to have excellent logical and analytical skills and high levels of attention to detail.

This will be coupled with the ability to source and assess multiple data and information points to help make risk-based decisions and solutions.

You’ll also need:

• A familiarity with the equities and fixed income markets regulations, electronic trading concepts and risks
• Knowledge of trading process and products
• The ability to apply a technical understanding to data in order to solve complex problems
• To be adaptable to changing market situations, technology and business needs
• Previous involvement in project implementation and representation on relevant work streams
• Knowledge of how to assist in the development of policies and procedures
• The ability to work with colleagues at all levels, with good listening and influencing skills