Surveillance Manager

-Job description

**Some careers grow faster than others.**

If you’re looking for a career that will give you plenty of opportunities to develop, join HSBC and your future will be rich with potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realize their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of **Surveillance Manager.**

**Principle Responsibilities**:
The global mission of Surveillance is to safeguard customers and the integrity of financial markets by detecting and deterring market abuse, inappropriate trading and other market conduct risks. In doing so, Surveillance serves to meet HSBC’s regulatory obligations, wider stakeholder expectations, risk appetite policy requirements.

As part of Surveillance function, the Malaysia Surveillance team is responsible for the detection, escalation and reporting of potential market abuse and misconduct within the LOBs in Malaysia.

We are currently seeking a motivated individual to join our team of surveillance analysts and contribute towards achieving the strategic goals of the Surveillance team in Malaysia and Asia Pacific as a whole.

In this role, you will:

- Perform trade surveillance on order flow across an array of asset classes for potential market abuse and escalate them where appropriate.
- Review communications (ecomm and acomm) surveillance alerts for potential market abuse and misconduct and escalate them where appropriate.
- Contribute to continuously enhancing our investigatory capabilities by identifying new internal and external data sources, systems capabilities and investigative techniques.
- Contribute to the ongoing testing and calibration of surveillance systems and controls to ensure market abuse risks are being identified against a continuously evolving risk and regulatory landscape.
- Draft and submit compelling regulatory filings based on evidence gathered through in-depth, intelligence-led surveillance investigations.
- Co-ordinate with colleagues across the wider Surveillance function, ensuring consistency where appropriate and promoting best practices.
- Forge strong working relationships with stakeholders from the businesses we protect and enable as well as colleagues in Compliance, Risk and the Control Offices, acting as an ambassador for Surveillance, showcasing successful outcomes where appropriate.
- Support ongoing strategic endeavours such as the roll out of next generation trade surveillance capabilities across business lines and regions.
- Engage effectively with Surveillance colleagues in regional, business line, data management, IT, transformation, product management, and Centre of Excellence teams.
- Contribute to general governance and administrative responsibilities of Surveillance team such as issues management, training and the production of MI (management information) and reporting Qualifications.
Requirements

**Qualifications**:

- Chinese language ability is essential.
- Possession of an inquisitive and investigative mind-set and a willingness to learn and develop is key to success in this role.
- Ability to analyse and present complex information in a clear, concise and precise written and verbal format is essential.
- Strong interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills are essential.
- A strong understanding of financial markets and regulation with focus on FX, fixed income and derivatives.
- Experience of working in a dealing/trading environment is preferable but not essential.
- Experience of working in a surveillance monitoring or investigative function is preferable.
- Knowledge of surveillance tools such as Trading Hub and Digital Reasoning is preferable but not essential.

**Opening up a world of opportunity.**

**Issued by HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad