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Job Summary

This role supports Director in design and automation of processes and tools for a leaner, faster and more agile function. Key responsibilities would include:
• Help implement multi-year Surveillance strategy aligned with regulatory expectations and business growth, including but not limited to Cross Product implementation and testing (Change and transformation program)
• Identify and prioritize automation opportunities across the entire Surveillance value chain - data ingestion and alert generation to alert investigation for efficiency gains and better accuracy
• Develop and maintain a multi-year "Surveillance Automation Roadmap", which will include use of AI, where possible
• Provide support to Analytics and Data & Optimisation teams, with challenge and oversight provided to their outputs
• Act as the primary liaison between Surveillance and Technology team

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
• Help the Group meet its commitment of being "Here for Valuable" by building a sustainable compliance framework that places regulatory and compliance best practice standards in the aspect of data quality management and project management, and a culture of appropriate conduct at the forefront of the Group's agenda
• Maintain constructive and effective relationships with Technology Heads of Compliance and Business.
• Maintain independence, deliver timely responses, and timely escalation of risks and issues in projects where they feel risk management tolerance of the firm are exceeded




• Collaborate with Change Management & Technology to deliver the Trade Surveillance priorities
• Assess, analyse, and interpret outputs from MARA assessments and provide oversight and challenge with scenario design and calibration, data remediations and coverage to ensure surveillance adaptation to new products (e.g., crypto, derivatives) and trading behaviours.
• Partner with Surv. Data & Optimisation team; interpreting and following up on implementation of projects and where required liaise with Front Office, Change, Technology, and Data teams to enhance data pipelines and surveillance capabilities.
• Continually find opportunities across the entire Surveillance value chain - from data ingestion and alert generation to alert investigation - for automation for reduced risk and efficiency gains.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year "Surveillance Automation Roadmap", which will include use of AI, where possible.
• Establish a continuous feedback loop from the Monitoring team, especially the analysts on understanding the pain points to be addressed via automation or other technical means.

Business
• Awareness and understanding of various market abuse regulations globally in which the Group operates. Understanding the Group's business strategy as well as Compliance mandate in supporting the business.




• Build and maintain an effective and constructive relationship with all key business and functional stakeholders to enable the business and functions to meet/ achieve their strategic tactical objectives.
Processes
• Support, challenge, and provide oversight in the development of analytics methods to enhance scenario alerts generation, improve data quality and facilitate better data mapping through feedback and collaboration with Data, Analytics and Optimisation teams, ensuring process refreshes in D&A; team are in line with i) regulatory requirements and expectations and ii) FMTS MAR Surv Strategy.
• Support and direction for activities including requirements specifications, prioritization, UAT, regression testing on Surv BoW, etc.
• Timely mitigation and resolution of risks and issues, establishments of effective controls, in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders
• Participate in the scenario logic reviews, enhancements and lead the engagements with stakeholders for implementation. Also includes authoring and reviewing specification documents relating to scenarios in collaboration with Analytics and Optimisation team.

Risk Management
• Identify key issues of the workstreams assigned and work towards resolving, if not escalating where required. Collaborate with other teams to ensure risks are comprehensively identified, assessed, and managed. Support all control checks approved by Operational Risk Framework (ORF) & be accountable for identification and escalation of potential risks and issues to senior management through appropriate governance channels and the Quality Assurance framework. Comply with and adhere to relevant risk management policies
Governance
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📌 Asso Dir, MAR Trade Surv. Design (Bengaluru)
🏢 Standard Chartered Bank
📍 Bengaluru