Business Analyst - Trade Surveillance Initiative (18 months Contract)

Responsibilities

1. Serve as the Business Analyst for trade and communications surveillance initiatives supporting regulatory compliance.
2. Work closely with Compliance, Risk, Front Office, Operations, and Technology teams to define surveillance use cases.
3. Participate in data mapping, user acceptance testing (UAT), and scenario validation.
4. Analyse current surveillance operations and design improved processes for alert generation, investigation, and reporting.
5. Support implementation and enhancement of surveillance tools, including vendor coordination and solution validation.
6. Engage stakeholders to identify, clarify, and document business needs using appropriate elicitation techniques.
7. Analyse and prepare data to improve consistency, accuracy, and usability across systems.
8. Build strong working relationships with business and technical stakeholders to secure alignment and approvals.
9. Partner with solution architects to ensure proposed designs are efficient and fit for purpose.
10. Lead or support workshops to explore solution options and refine business requirements into functional designs.
11. Support change management activities by providing inputs for stakeholder communication and training.
12. Assist in audits and regulatory reviews by ensuring clear documentation and traceability of requirements and controls.
13. Act as a point of contact during implementation, assisting users, resolving issues, and coordinating with vendors.

Requirements

1. Possessed Bachelor’s degree or higher and Professional Business Analyst certification preferred
2. Minimum 5 years of experience in a Business Analyst role within financial services (asset management experience is a plus)
3. Familiarity with APAC regulatory environments is beneficial
4. Understanding of trade surveillance concepts, including market abuse and trading behaviour monitoring
5. Exposure to surveillance systems or vendors (e.g., Actimize, Smarsh, Behavox, SteelEye) is advantageous.
6. Strong written and verbal communication skills.