Surveillance Officer

Crédit Agricole CIB; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global Corporate & Investment Bank is seeking a highly motivated Trade Surveillance Officer to join its London-based Compliance Surveillance Team. The role requires strong analytical capabilities and a passion for market integrity to monitor trading activity. Responsibilities include daily monitoring of trades, supporting the development of surveillance models, and conducting detailed investigations. Candidates should have a relevant degree and experience in trade surveillance or compliance monitoring. The position offers a hybrid work model and is open to applicants with disabilities.

Qualifications

• Degree within relevant discipline.
• Compliance-related training or certifications (e.g., CISI, FINRA) are desirable.
• Prior experience in trade surveillance or compliance monitoring within financial services.
• Proven ability to analyse complex datasets and present findings clearly.
• Experience with surveillance tools is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily monitoring of trading activity across all business lines.
• Support the development of surveillance models for detecting market abuse.
• Conduct detailed investigations ensuring documentation of findings.
• Produce management information and audit-ready documentation.
• Identify and propose improvements to surveillance tools or processes.

Skills

Strong understanding of capital markets products

Familiarity with Market Abuse Regulation scenarios

Excellent report-writing skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder management skills

Education

Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent

Compliance-related training or certifications

Tools

Surveillance tools

Trade capture systems

Data feeds

Risk systems

Job description

Business type

Types of Jobs - Compliance / Financial Security

Job title

Contract type

Permanent Contract

Job summary

We are seeking a highly motivated Trade Surveillance Officer (Analyst or Associate level) to join our London‑based Compliance Surveillance Team within a leading global Corporate & Investment Bank. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual with strong analytical capability, an investigative mindset, and a passion for market integrity to play a key role in the monitoring of trading activity across multiple business lines.

The Surveillance function is responsible for the design, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of monitoring models and control frameworks covering Global Markets, Global Investment Banking, and Treasury activities. You will contribute to safeguarding the bank from market abuse, conduct risk, and operational irregularities through rigorous analysis, proactive alert handling, and effective escalation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform daily monitoring and testing of trade, order, RFQ, and market data alerts across all business lines.
• Support the development and enhancement of surveillance models, thresholds, and logic to ensure effective detection of market abuse behaviours.
• Conduct detailed investigations, ensuring findings are fully documented, evidenced, and escalated appropriately.
• Produce high‑quality management information, incident reports, and audit‑ready documentation.
• Contribute to the annual Surveillance Book of Work and Compliance Monitoring Plan, including model calibration and validation activities.
• Identify gaps, weaknesses, or emerging risks in monitoring activity and propose improvements to surveillance tools or processes.
• Maintain strong relationships with Front Office, Compliance Advisory, IT, and other stakeholders involved in the surveillance lifecycle.
• Stay informed on regulatory updates (UK & EU) and industry developments impacting monitoring design.
• Support training initiatives for senior management and participate in thematic reviews and ad‑hoc projects.

Geographical area

Europe, United Kingdom

City

London

hybrid

Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent

• Degree within relevant discipline
• Compliance‑related training or certifications (e.g., CISI, FINRA) are desirable

Experience

• Prior experience in trade surveillance, e‑communications surveillance, compliance monitoring, or related regulatory roles within financial services
• Proven ability to analyse complex datasets and present findings clearly in MI or statistical formats
• Experience with surveillance tools, trade capture systems, data feeds, and risk systems is advantageous
• Excellent report‑writing, communication, and stakeholder management skills

Required skills

• Strong understanding of capital markets products (e.g., Credit, Rates, FX, Structured Products, Treasury)
• Familiarity with Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) scenarios including spoofing, layering, wash trades, ramping, and benchmark manipulation

General information

Entity

About Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (Crédit Agricole CIB)

Crédit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, the 10th largest banking group worldwide in terms of balance sheet size (The Banker, July 2022). 8,600 employees in more than 30 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia‑Pacific, the Middle‑East and North Africa, support the Bank's clients, meeting their financial needs throughout the world.

Crédit Agricole CIB offers its large corporate and institutional clients a range of products and services in capital market activities, investment banking, structured finance, commercial banking and international trade.

The Bank is a pioneer in the area of climate finance, and is currently a market leader in this segment with a complete offer for all its clients.

By working every day in the interest of society, we are a Group committed to diversity and inclusion and place people at the heart of all our transformations. All our job offers are open to persons with disabilities.

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By working every day in the interest of society, we are a group committed to diversity and inclusion. All our positions are open to people with disabilities.