Surveillance Analyst

HSBC Holdings plc; Ciudad de México; On-site; MXN 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid leave

Well-being culture

Flexible working

Job summary

HSBC Holdings plc is seeking an experienced surveillance professional to join our Global Service Center in Mexico City. The role focuses on implementing conduct surveillance and analytics to identify market abuse and misconduct across business lines.

You will review alerts, analyze trading activity, and contribute to the design and testing of new surveillance processes. You will act as a subject matter expert, challenge design, and ensure the end product meets Surveillance team requirements

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of financial markets and traded products.
• Proficiency in English is essential for communication with stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills to review alerts and data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; well-developed organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify new forms of staff or counterparty misconduct or market abuse.
• Determine if identified risks can be detected with current surveillance systems and data.
• Prioritize development of systems, processes, and data needs in liaison with Product Management.
• Input into and track development of new surveillance capabilities.
• Review alerts after Level 1 filtering and ensure proper escalation and resolution.
• Support and guide the expanding offshoring function.
• Analyze alerts holistically to improve surveillance effectiveness and efficiency.
• Conduct investigations requested by Regulators and senior management; escalate material findings.
• Prepare regular Management Information reports for key internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with front office and support function stakeholders.

Skills

Market knowledge

Analytical skills

English proficiency

Communication

Project management

Collaboration

Job description

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join our Global Service Center (GSC)- HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of

Surveillance roles are responsible for the identification and management of undesired risk activities including conduct risk and financial crime risk. They are responsible for integrating prescribed and required forms of surveillance in the business, complimentary to existing process/systems.

The key area of focus will be the implementation of the conduct surveillance and analytics strategy across Business Line(s) to identify market abuse and misconduct of our staff and our counterparties.

The analyst is responsible for reviewing alerts and trading activity which encompasses trade surveillance, e-communication surveillance, and audio surveillance.

The analyst also develops and analyzes new surveillance processes. The role holder will be responsible for providing Subject Matter Expert input to this process, challenging the design, testing the metrics, and ensuring the end product meets the requirements of the Surveillance team.

Main activities:

• Identify potential new forms of staff or counterparty misconduct or market abuse.
• Determine whether these could be identified through the surveillance team’s current systems, processes, people, and the data sets surveilled.
• In liaison with the Product Management and Transformation Team, prioritize the development of the systems, processes, people, and data sets needed to (better) identify these new forms of misconduct for their business/asset class.
• Input into and track the development of these new surveillance capabilities.
• Deal with the alerts once they have already been passed through a first (level one) filter by the offshore team.
• Ensure that all alerts are satisfactorily escalated and resolved.
• Provide support and guidance for our expanding offshoring function.
• By looking across the alerts (ie holistically) identify improvements the way in which alerts are generated to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the surveillance process.
• Carry out in investigations requested by Regulators, senior management and the businesses/asset classes into certain practices, businesses, individuals, and events. Escalate, as appropriate, any material findings or incidents of misconduct highlighted by these investigations.
• Coordinate or produce regular Management Information reports to key internal stakeholders including analysis of the reports.
• Foster a close relationship with key front office and support function stakeholders.
• Assist team members with the implementation and roll‑out of a new surveillance tools and models.
• Present surveillance output at internal control and governance forums.
• Support the Surveillance team in the resolution of audit and control findings.
• Liaise with Transformation and Technology and aid Surveillance in delivery.
• Analyze and explore multiple data types to identify anomalies and patterns of risk.
• Understand financial products and HSBC’s business processes around these.
• Work across various technology platforms (surveillance, analytics, trading platforms, etc.)

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of financial markets and traded products.
• A strong understanding of the rules relevant to trading and sales activities for Equities, Options, Money Market Foreign Exchange, and Fixed Income.
• Proficiency in English, both written and verbal, is essential for effective communication and collaboration with stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Well-developed communications, organizational, and project management skills.
• Ability to support decisions with sound reasoning. Ability to clearly articulate business and regulatory implications of analysis and findings.
• Evidence of collaboration with key stakeholder functions as well as providing credible challenge to the business/desk supervisors in their daily risk management.
• Experience in a Surveillance role is a plus. Consideration will also be given to those with Compliance Advisory, Unauthorized Trading, Front‑Office, or those without direct experience but aligned with the other requirements.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC!

At HSBC we offer our colleagues a greater number of days so that they can fully enjoy their wedding, take care of the new member of the family, or grieve the loss of a family member. Our paid leave package is at the forefront in Mexico, now you have one more reason to be HSBC and proudly live a culture of well-being, balance and care

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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