Surveillance Officer - VP

Crédit Agricole CIB; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Corporate & Investment Bank in London is seeking a highly skilled Trade Surveillance Officer at VP level. This senior role involves protecting market integrity and upholding regulatory standards by monitoring trade and market data. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of market abuse risks and compliance reporting, with experience in trade surveillance and a relevant degree. This position offers a hybrid work model in a dynamic environment focused on excellence in financial security.

Qualifications

• Experience in trade surveillance, monitoring or investigations.
• Strong compliance reporting experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily monitoring and testing of trade, order, and market data alerts.
• Contribute to the design and enhancement of surveillance controls.
• Investigate potential instances of market abuse.
• Produce high-quality periodic reports for senior management.
• Work closely with Front Office and global surveillance teams.

Skills

Strong understanding of capital markets products

Understanding of Market Abuse Regulation and related alert scenarios

Exceptional communication skills

High attention to detail and analytical ability

Understanding of financing and banking products

Knowledge of UK/EU regulatory frameworks

Education

Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent in relevant discipline

Tools

Surveillance systems

Job description

Types of Jobs - Compliance / Financial Security

Contract type

Permanent Contract

No

Job summary

Join a leading Corporate & Investment Bank and play a pivotal role in protecting market integrity, upholding regulatory standards, and driving excellence across our global surveillance framework.

We are seeking a highly skilled Trade Surveillance Officer at VP level to join our London-based Monitoring & Surveillance team. This is a senior opportunity for an experienced compliance professional with deep knowledge of market abuse risks, surveillance methodologies, and financial markets.

In this role, you will contribute to the design, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of surveillance models across a diverse range of business lines, including Global Markets, Investment Banking and Treasury. You will analyse complex data, investigate alerts, elevate findings, and deliver high-quality reporting to senior management and global stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform daily monitoring and testing of trade, order, RFQ and market data alerts across all business lines.
• Contribute to the design and enhancement of surveillance controls covering conduct risk and market abuse.
• Follow up on alert calibration issues, logic refinement and threshold adjustments.
• Investigate potential instances of market abuse, operational risk or market integrity concerns, ensuring timely, accurate escalation.
• Support the management, calibration and validation of surveillance models across all asset classes.
• Assess model performance, identify deficiencies, propose enhancements and contribute to ongoing platform improvements.
• Present findings and updates to relevant calibration committees.
• Upskill team members in data analysis and model interpretation.

Reporting & Governance

• Produce high-quality periodic and ad-hoc reports for the UK Head of Surveillance and Senior Compliance Management.
• Support the annual Compliance Monitoring Plan and contribute to regulatory, audit and group reporting.
• Maintain accurate investigation records and full audit trails.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with Front Office, Business Compliance Advisory, IT and global surveillance teams.
• Provide training and guidance to senior management regarding system and platform changes.
• Participate in industry seminars to maintain awareness of regulatory developments.

Regulatory & Policy Compliance

• Stay abreast of key regulatory changes (FCA, EU and UK requirements) and assess their impact on surveillance controls.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies, London Compliance Manual, and Financial Crime Policy.
• Maintain strict confidentiality given access to highly sensitive information.

Geographical area

Europe, United Kingdom

City

London

hybrid

Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent

Degree within relevant discipline.

Experience

• Experience in trade surveillance, monitoring or investigations
• Experience with surveillance systems.
• Strong compliance reporting experience

Required skills

• Strong understanding of capital markets products.
• Understanding of Market Abuse Regulation and related alert scenarios.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• High attention to detail and analytical ability.
• Understanding of financing and banking products.
• Knowledge of UK/EU regulatory frameworks.

Entity

About Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (Crédit Agricole CIB)

Crédit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, the 10th largest banking group worldwide in terms of balance sheet size (The Banker, July 2022). 8,600 employees in more than 30 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle-East and North Africa, support the Bank's clients, meeting their financial needs throughout the world. Crédit Agricole CIB offers its large corporate and institutional clients a range of products and services in capital market activities, investment banking, structured finance, commercial banking and international trade. The Bank is a pioneer in the area of climate finance, and is currently a market leader in this segment with a complete offer for all its clients. By working every day in the interest of society, we are a Group committed to diversity and inclusion and place people at the heart of all our transformations. All our job offers are open to persons with disabilities.

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By working every day in the interest of society, we are a group committed to diversity and inclusion. All our positions are open to people with disabilities.