Market Surveillance Analyst II

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Job Description

Insight Global is looking for a mid-level analyst candidate to sit in the market surveillance group at a large financial client of ours. This group sits within the Financial Crime Compliance Group, a centralized surveillance function within the Global Compliance Department. The group strives to detect potential insider trading, market abuse, violations of regulations and policies related to information barriers, and/or violations of firmwide trading policies through established advanced technology-based trading surveillances. Market Surveillance focuses on establishing surveillances to cover all business units globally. The opportunity within Market Surveillance is preferred to be onsite in SLC and will focus on surveillance alerts, ad-hoc investigations arising from internal escalations and regulatory inquiries, as well as project-based work on building out trade-surveillance parameters underpinning new surveillance technologies.

Key Responsibilities

•  Identify potential insider trading, information barrier, and market manipulation scenarios through investigations and analysis of trading alerts
•  Research market-moving events and create market color, conduct an analysis of the trading in the context of this market color, develop and support a recommendation
•  Investigate potential trading issues flagged by the business units, such as the Global Markets Division and Investment Banking
•  Liaise with strategy groups, Engineering, and Technology in the development, review, and testing of new/existing automated surveillance models and output
•  Coordinate with the Anti-Money Laundering Group globally on trading-related investigations and potential escalations
•  Pursue ad-hoc projects related to trading around market-moving news events such as merger & acquisition announcements, offerings, corporate accounting scandals, etc.
•  Participate and potentially lead working groups that focus on enhancing controls/quality of the trade surveillance program
  
  

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com .

   

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Skills And Requirements

•  1 Years Experience in Financial Crimes Compliance
•  AML/KYC/EDD/ Fruad Monitoring Experience
•  Experience writing Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR's)
•  Advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint skills (Pivot tables, VLookup, experience with large data sets, proficient in data manipulation and presentation)
•  Proficiency with Bloomberg, Reuters and other market data tools and aptitude for research
•  Interest in capital markets, current events, and financial news
•  Ability to identify and explain sophisticated trading strategies
•  Experience/working knowledge of financial products such as fixed-income, equity options, CDSs, CFDs, among others
•  Strong communication skills, comfort developing a recommendation and supporting it by presenting and explaining analysis
•  Team player with great attitude and work ethic
•  Ability to multi-task on several different assignments/projects * Series 7/63 preferred
•  Bachelor's Degree in Finance or related business field null
  
  

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion,sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military oruniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, andordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com.