Electronic Communications Surveillance Analyst

About the Team

Bloombergs Legal and Compliance Department plays a critical role in supporting our businesses and operations around the world. We move quickly and thoughtfully to help address a variety of complex legal and compliance issues that come with being the worlds leading financial news and information company. Our team is made up of talented and hardworking professionals who think creatively and work collaboratively in an open environment to deliver results drive innovation and solve difficult problems. Diversity and inclusion are essential to our success and we strive to maintain an environment where our employees are empowered to make an impact. We also recognize the value and importance of giving back to our communities as evidenced by our award-winning pro bono program.

The Employee Compliance Function within Bloombergs Legal and Compliance Department provides coverage for global employee conduct programs including Electronic Communications Surveillance Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Personal Account Dealing Conflicts of Interest Outside Business Activities and Compliance-led investigations. The team partners closely with Legal Human Resources and business stakeholders to promote a strong culture of integrity and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies. Through a risk-based approach the function helps identify assess and address potential employee conduct risks across the firm.

Role overview:

The Electronic Communications Surveillance Analyst is responsible for monitoring reviewing and investigating employee electronic communications to identify potential violations of regulatory requirements firm policies market conduct rules and ethical standards. The role supports the firms compliance and risk management framework by conducting surveillance across email chat messaging platforms and other digital communication channels.

Key Responsibilities:

Surveillance Monitoring

• Review alerts generated by communications surveillance systems
• Monitor employee communications across email Bloomberg Chat Slack and mobile messaging platforms
• Identify indicators of market abuse insider trading bribery and corruption conflicts of interest misconduct or policy breaches
• Perform targeted reviews and ad hoc searches based on emerging risks or regulatory requests

Investigations

• Analyze potentially suspicious communications and related business activity
• Escalate issues to Compliance Legal Human Resources or senior management
• Support internal investigations audits and regulatory examinations

Program Enhancement

• Recommend process improvements to increase surveillance effectiveness
• Participate in system upgrades testing and implementation of new surveillance technologies
• Help tune alert parameters to reduce false positives and improve detection quality

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Bachelors degree
• 13 years of experience in compliance surveillance risk management investigations or financial services
• Strong analytical and investigative skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
• High attention to detail and ability to handle sensitive information confidentially
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel Word and PowerPoint
• Ease with technology and learning new systems

Desirable

• Experience using communications surveillance eDiscovery or compliance monitoring platforms (e.g. Bloomberg Vault Behavox Smarsh Global Relay SteelEye Relativity or similar) is a plus.
• Knowledge of securities regulations and market conduct rules

Personal Attributes

• Investigative mindset
• Critical thinking
• Regulatory awareness
• Risk assessment
• Documentation and report writing
• Time management and prioritization
• Ethical judgment and integrity