Trade Surveillance Business Analyst (h/f) in City of Westminster

We are seeking a Trade Surveillance Business Analyst (BA) who will play a pivotal role in strengthening internal compliance and surveillance framework. The position focuses on two key projects aimed at upgrading and enhancing trade surveillance capabilities, including the Trade Surveillance Check-Up and Upgrade. The BA will partner closely with Compliance, Technology, and Surveillance teams to ensure systems, controls, and processes meet regulatory expectations and internal risk standards.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Compliance, Surveillance, and Technology stakeholders to gather, validate, and document business requirements for the Check-Up, upgrade and related surveillance enhancements.
• Manage and deliver successfully across two concurrent surveillance projects, ensuring milestones, timelines, and quality standards are fully achieved.
• Analyse regulatory and compliance benchmarks, providing recommendations to strengthen surveillance workflows, with attention to KYC and AML best practices.
• Support end-to-end project lifecycle activities, including requirement definition, testing coordination, issue resolution, and implementation readiness.
• Strong background in Trade Surveillance (TS), ideally within financial markets or regulated environments.
• Solid knowledge of Compliance frameworks, including market abuse, conduct risk, and surveillance controls.
• Demonstrated business analysis expertise, including requirements gathering, process mapping, and stakeholder engagement.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, delivering on time and to scope in fast-paced environments.
• Knowledge of KYC and AML regulations and their application within surveillance and compliance functions.
• Familiarity with trade surveillance tools, alerting systems, and methodologies (e.g., market abuse models, communication monitoring, exception analytics).

About emagine

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector. We power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions. We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

Values and approach

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.
• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.
• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model.
• Investing in employees' growth through ongoing training and development.
• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise.
• Providing a transparent performance and career management experience.

Consulting focus and capabilities

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction.
• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs.
• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation.