Associate, Surveillance - London, United Kingdom - MarketAxess Holdings
3 weeks ago
Description
Company Description
MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world's largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace.
Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace.
Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one's ever done this before.But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead.
We know where we're going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There.The Role
How You'll Make an Impact
- Monitor and close market surveillance alerts and electronic communications to identify suspicious behaviour that could be indicative of market abuse, insider trading or inappropriate market conduct
- Calibrate and tailor monitoring systems to ensure that alerts are generated optimally and reduce false positives across trade surveillance and electronic communications systems
- Produce and review MI on surveillance activity to support the Senior Surveillance Officer in reporting to Boards and governance committees on the market abuse governance and control framework
- Assist the Head of Surveillance to:
- perform the annual market abuse risk assessment (MARA) for each trading venue across EMEA & APAC
- maintain accurate paperwork and records to document decisions and track attendant actions arising from the Board and governance meetings
- prepare training material for staff relating to market abuse
- manage technical enhancements relating to compliance monitoring software such as Scila (trade surveillance) and Global Relay (electronic communications)
- implement system changes arising from changes to market abuse regulations, guidance or best practice
- escalate and investigate exceptions and incidents arising from market abuse and electronic communications monitoring
- prepare material relating to STOR or SAR notifications to regulators
What We're Looking for
- 3+ years of experience working in UK/EU financial services firms with 2+ years in trade surveillance, some experience working in Compliance, preferably in regulated electronic trading platforms, market infrastructure and trading firms
- Strong academic qualifications required; STEM degree highly regarded
- Experience working in market surveillance preferred
- Knowledge or experience in market abuse preferred
- Interest in financial markets, data analysis, and compliance
- Team player, ability to work flexibly and tenacity
- Strong report writing and documentation skills
- Languages
- English must be fluent, written and spoken; preferable if proficient in Japanese
- Ability to multitask and work independently and reliably
- Articulate in reporting findings in a clear and concise manner
What You Can Expect from Us
- Central Location: based at our city offices near St Paul's
- Free Food: We provide lunch each day of the week when the employee attends the office via our vendor Feedr as well as breakfast cereals, office snacks and drinks from our free vending machines
- Reward for your service: We offer a twoweek bonus holiday after completing each 5 years of service
- Core benefits: Besides competitive standard benefits package we offer private medical (PMI) for family, Cash Plan, health screenings, dental cover, 6X life assurance, critical illness cover, income protection, pension, car leasing (Tusker electronic cars), reimbursement for wellness stipend, interest free season ticket loan and a "Share Incentive" plan
- Tuition Assistance and
Professional Training:
Benefit from on-demand learning, boot camps, and opportunities to attend conferences
**_Collaboration and innovation are integral to our success - it's how we got to where we are and how we'll maintain and grow our competitive advantage. We believe this best happens in an office environment. Employees work in the office 4 days a week. This approach still allows for flexibility depending on the business function you work within but also helps us maintain a collaborative office environment long-term._
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