Job Description

Join JPMorgan Regional Compliance Surveillance team to uncover market misconduct risks by investigating trading surveillance alerts, and help elevate a high-impact compliance program across asset classes.

As an Associate with Regional Compliance Surveillance team, you will report to manager in Hong Kong. You will be responsible for reviewing alerts generated from various Surveillance system primarily for the Equities, Futures & Options and OTC products to detect instances of potential misuse of material non-public information, breaches of policies and / or where applicable relevant laws and regulations. You will also be part of the bigger Compliance Surveillance team with a chance to get involved in various projects to uplift the Surveillance program and learn about various other asset class

Job responsibilities

• Use trade / communication surveillance tools to analyze system generated alerts across various platforms within the firm and locate any potential breaches of policies and/or where applicable relevant laws and regulations.
• Support analysis conducted through Bloomberg and Internet research, and by maintaining awareness of regional markets and regulatory activity.
• Work closely with regional LOB/Core Functional Compliance Teams, Operations and Technology to understand trading flows and relevant regulations to support analysis.
• Partner with the team and the team lead in referring or escalating any unusual or suspicious cases during the course of alert reviews to the relevant LOB / Country Compliance officers and/or other counterparties in accordance with the defined operational process.
• Ensure escalated cases are followed up and documentations are updated in our case register in a timely manner.
• Participate in market conduct related investigations and ensure responses to enquiries are managed in a timely manner.
• Assist in the delivery of surveillance related projects or initiatives, including establishing internal control processes and developing/updating procedures, communication and trade surveillance system analysis, testing and design.
• Assist in the production and enhancement of MI reporting

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5 plus years’ Surveillance / Control Room / Advisory experience in Equities, FnO at a Tier 1 bank, broker, or regulator.
• Proven expertise using third party trade surveillance tools (e.g. Nasdaq Market Surveillance (SMARTS), Actimize) and market data vendors (e.g. Bloomberg, Reuters).
• Strong product knowledge of exchange traded securities as well as listed derivatives; sound knowledge in OTC products.
• Good knowledge of key Asian markets and key regulations.
• Good understanding of market abuse, sales and trading compliance risks, information barriers and best practice scenarios.
• Understanding of trading jargon and market commentary/color to complement e-communication surveillance.
• Strong knowledge of investment bank operating model.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to details and the ability to manage several simultaneous tasks.
• A self-motivated fast learner with the ability to work independently as well as with a team.
• Adaptability to work under time pressure and resiliency to provide stable and consistent performance.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• A good understanding of the China Equities and F&O markets is desirable but not mandatory.
• Excellent computer skills especially in standard Microsoft Office applications. Knowledge in analytics tools (e.g. Tableau, Alteryx) or programming language (e.g. VBA Macro, Python) will be an advantage.
• Competent in other Asian languages will be an advantage

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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