Business Analyst - Trade Surveillance Initiative (18 months Contract)

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

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