Associate Director, MAR Trade Surveillance

Standard Chartered; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

Standard Chartered is recruiting for a role supporting the Head of MAR Trade Surveillance and the Lead of Surveillance Monitoring. You will oversee risk assessments, design and test surveillance scenarios, calibrate system functionalities, and analyze data to drive timely actions.

The role involves collaboration across analytics, calibration teams, and regulatory reviews. The ideal candidate has 5–6 years in MAR surveillance, strong regulatory knowledge, and excellent English communication

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-6 years of experience in a MAR detective surveillance role.
• Strong understanding of Market Abuse regulations is essential.
• Experience in design, testing, calibration of surveillance solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide challenge and oversight over Market Abuse Risk Assessment and Surveillance scenario mappings.
• Assist with design and testing of new Surveillance scenarios and change requests.
• Assist with design and testing of new Surveillance system functionalities.
• Review proposed changes to scenario thresholds with supporting data.
• Collaborate with Surveillance Analytics, Optimisation and Calibration teams on calibration methods.
• Deliver training on new products and surveillance scenarios to the BAU team.

Skills

MAR surveillance

Regulatory knowledge

Data analysis

Project management

English communication

Tools

MS Office Suite

Job description

This role supports the Head of MAR Trade Surveillance and the Lead of Surveillance Monitoring in fulfilling their responsibilities. Specific roles and responsibilities include:

• Provide challenge and oversight over the Market Abuse Risk Assessment, Trade Surveillance scenario mappings, and prioritisation of Surveillance Book of Work.
• Assist with design and testing of new Surveillance scenarios, as well as change requests.
• Assist with design and testing of new Surveillance system functionalities.
• Review and validate proposed changes to scenario thresholds, with analysis of corresponding rationales and supporting data.
• Providing inputs and working closely with Surveillance Analytics, Optimisation and Calibration teams to refresh, design and implement new calibration methodologies.
• Deliver training on new products and new surveillance scenarios to the BAU team, as and when required.
• Providing inputs to market watch analysis efforts, as and when required.
• Providing inputs to surveillance co-ordinated assessments, as and when required.
• Providing inputs to surveillance process documentation, as and when required.
• Assist the Surveillance Management during Compliance, Audit and Regulatory reviews.

Skills and Experience

• Minimum 5-6 years of relevant working experience, which includes direct experience within a MAR detective surveillance role.
• Strong understanding of relevant regulations on Market Abuse is a must.
• Demonstratable expertise and experience in technical aspects of Surveillance (solution design/implementation/testing/calibration, etc.).
• Project management experience and ability to multi-task and be flexible when working to deadlines.
• Analysis skills & inquisitive mindset: able to analyse data trends and out of pattern activities, able to independently assimilate, analyse, and evaluate information from disperse data sources to determine a course of action (e.g. case closure or escalation), and record and communicate this decision clearly and concisely.
• Banking knowledge in terms of customers, operations, products, and transactions.
• Excellent communication in English (articulation and writing).
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office Suite.

About Standard Chartered

We're a global bank connecting clients to our differentiated network, offering growth opportunities in the world's most dynamic markets. Our strategy, which combines cross-border capabilities and leading wealth management expertise, helps us deliver our purpose - to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.

Over our 170-year history, and across a unique geographical footprint connecting Asia, Africa and the Middle East to each other and the world, we've built a bank like no other, with diverse capabilities and partnerships that set us apart.

What We Offer

• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.
• 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 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.

Visit our careers website to learn more about us: www.sc.com/careers.