Your role :

Do you like financial markets?

Are you good at handling and interpreting large data sets?

Are you analytical and enjoy investigating financial transactions, understanding trading strategies and making sense of the unusual trading activity?

Are you able to think independently and express your opinions and ideas confidently?

We are looking for a Trade Surveillance Analyst in an individual contributor role with experience in the following:

• performing automated and manual market conduct surveillance activities primarily across the Wealth Management division.

• analyzing instances of potentially suspicious activities flagged by our systems.

• engaging with business stakeholders on the market conduct-related escalations and other matters.

• driving continuous process improvements and contributing to strategic projects and automation/optimization initiatives

Your team :

Our Team's purpose is to ensure UBS continues to meet regulatory obligations regarding identifying and reporting to the relevant authorities instances of market abuse and other misconduct that adversely impacts financial markets.

As a member of the Market Conduct Surveillance Team in Hong Kong/Singapore you will have an opportunity to:

• learn about UBS and its clients' trading strategies and profiles

• understand the regulatory framework of the Wealth Management division

• investigate events flagged by our surveillance systems and controls

• get to the bottom of trading activity that you deem potentially suspicious.

• prepare investigative reports summarizing key findings

• contribute to the team discussions, investigations and knowledge sharing.

• work in an international Team with a regional mandate

Your expertise :

• 3+ years of relevant work experience in the trade surveillance domain (banking, broker and/or exchange-side).

• ample knowledge of market conduct risks, financial markets, products and trade lifecycles

• relevant experience in Wealth Management related trade surveillance would be a strong plus

• proficiency in automated trade surveillance tools such as Nasdaq Trade Surveillance (NTS) would be a plus.

• strong compliance mindset, confidence to question the 'status quo' and challenge stakeholders when the responses are not satisfactory

• firsthand experience in performing market conduct-specific risk assessments, impact/gap assessments on the back of regulatory changes and enforcement actions, and in-depth design reviews of surveillance framework, policies and procedures

• well-versed and capable of independently investigating and reviewing the alerts generated by surveillance systems end-to-end across different types of market misconduct

• experienced in conducting market conduct investigations for complex cases, drafting and filing reports to external regulatory bodies