🚨 Trade Surveillance Business Analyst - London - Up to £110k

A specialist financial services consultancy is looking for an experienced Trade Surveillance Business Analyst to join its growing team.

This is a fully on-site role in London, offering the opportunity to work across trade surveillance, market abuse monitoring and regulatory technology, supporting major investment banks, broker-dealers and financial institutions.

The role would suit someone who combines strong hands-on trade surveillance experience with the ability to work across business analysis, compliance, data and technology initiatives.

🔍 The Role

You’ll play a key role across both surveillance operations and platform enhancement, working closely with Compliance, Trading, Operations, Technology, Risk and other senior stakeholders.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Reviewing, investigating and dispositioning trade surveillance alerts across scenarios including insider dealing, market manipulation, spoofing, layering, wash trading, marking the close and front running.
• Performing detailed trade and order-level analysis across multiple asset classes, identifying root causes and determining appropriate escalation.
• Supporting STOR preparation and market abuse investigations.
• Supporting scenario and threshold tuning, calibration and false-positive reduction across trade and communications surveillance models.
• Gathering business requirements, conducting gap analysis and producing BRDs, FRDs, user stories and operating models.
• Supporting the full SDLC across requirements, solution design, SIT/UAT, defect management and production readiness.
• Assessing data lineage, quality and completeness across trade, order and communications data.
• Producing governance packs, MI, RAID logs, steering committee updates and executive reporting.
• Working with clients to support surveillance solution design, RFPs and proposals.
• Supporting and mentoring more junior team members.