Senior Customer Journey Manager (BA) - Trade Surveillance

Job Advert: Senior Customer Journey Manager (BA) - Trade Surveillance Remediation
Location: London (Hybrid - 2 days onsite per week)
Contract: Fixed Term Contract (6 months with potential to extend)

Are you ready to take your career to the next level in the dynamic world of finance? Our client is seeking a talented and driven Senior Customer Journey Manager (BA) to lead the charge in Trade Surveillance Remediation! Join a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence as you play a pivotal role in shaping the future of market surveillance.

Role Purpose:
In this exciting position, you will lead the development of Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) for Trade Surveillance. By translating intricate front-office business activities into clear, risk-based surveillance requirements, you will ensure that our surveillance platform effectively monitors for market abuse risks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Business & Desk Understanding:

- Gain in-depth knowledge of trading desk structures, mandates, and products.
- Understand the end-to-end trade lifecycle and flow of business.
- Engage with Front Office, Markets Platform, Risk, and Surveillance stakeholders to validate business activities and control expectations.

• Risk Identification & Aggregation:

- Translate business activities into market abuse risk typologies (e.g., manipulation, insider dealing).
- Define how surveillance scenarios aggregate risk at the desk and trader levels.
- Ensure surveillance coverage aligns with desk risk profiles and trading strategies.

• Surveillance Scenario Mapping:

- Define how each scenario detects specific risk behaviours.
- Articulate relationships between scenarios (e.g., complementary, overlapping).

• Business Requirements Documentation (BRD):

- Produce clear and structured BRDs that translate business risks into surveillance requirements.
- Ensure BRDs are suitable for vendor implementation and regulatory scrutiny.

• Vendor & Platform Alignment:

- Act as the primary bridge between business/surveillance teams and vendor implementation teams.
- Support interpretation of business logic into vendor controls and alert structures.

• Governance & Change Support:

- Support model validation and regulatory engagement by providing clear rationales for surveillance design decisions.
- Maintain traceability from business activity to monitoring outcomes.

Key Deliverables:

• Desk-level and business-level risk assessments
• Comprehensive Business Requirements Documents (BRDs)
• Scenario-to-risk mapping artefacts
• Clear audit and regulatory evidence of how trading activities are monitored

Skills & Experience:
Essential:

• Strong understanding of Markets/Trading businesses and desk structures
• Experience in Trade Surveillance or Market Abuse Risk
• Proven experience writing BRDs or equivalent business requirement artefacts
• Strong stakeholder management skills across Front Office and Control functions
• Knowledge of MAR/FCA market abuse expectations

Desirable:

• Experience working with trade surveillance vendor platforms
• Exposure to scenario-based surveillance models

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a vibrant team dedicated to excellence and innovation.
• Contribute to impactful projects that drive the future of financial surveillance.
• Enjoy a flexible hybrid working environment that promotes work-life balance.

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