Market Abuse Case Officer Equity Manipulation Team

Market Abuse Case Officer

Department - SMO

Division - EMO

Team - Equity Manipulation Team

Salary - National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from 52400 - 65500 and London 57700 - 72000 per annum (Salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.

We have a vacancy for a senior associate within the Equity Manipulation Team (EMT) in the Secondary Market Oversight (SMO) Department. SMO leads the FCAs work to detect investigate and prevent market abuse and EMT specialises in pursuing both criminal and civil cases of market manipulation primarily involving equities and equity-related products.

The EMT team has a vital role in helping the FCA achieve its objectives in ensuring the integrity of markets and protecting those who use them.

What will you be doing

• Conducting trade surveillance activities including reviewing alerts STORs and other indicators of potential market manipulation

• Leading in-depth investigations into potential manipulation including analysis of trading patterns liaising with market participants and making escalation recommendations

• Enhancing surveillance systems by working with developers and in-house tech teams to ensure alignment with evolving market abuse risks

• Providing expertise on financial markets and supporting evidence gathering for triage and enforcement investigations

What will you get from the role

• A unique opportunity to influence the FCAs approach to equity market manipulation and contribute to market integrity

• Development of technical and investigative skills using a wide range of tools and data sources

• Exposure to diverse and complex equity manipulation cases with scope for strategic and technical contributions

• Hands-on experience analysing suspicious behaviours using consolidated order book and transaction reporting data

• Opportunities to build and share professional expertise internally and with external regulatory peers

• Potential to act as an investigator in formal enforcement investigations

Which skills are required

We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore disabled people or individuals with long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. (To learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme Click Here)

Minimum

• Demonstrable professional experience of market abuse monitoring surveillance and investigations within financial services or with a regulator and/or professional exposure to financial markets in particular equities markets and equity derivatives

• Prior experience of using big data tools such as Microsoft Excel and other internal big data applications

• Proven experience in using trade surveillance systems

Essential

• Knowledge of the market abuse legislative framework

• Critical thinking and judgement with ability to make logical and consistent decisions based on the information available to you

• A strong sense of the value of teamwork with an ability to engage effectively and constructively with colleagues

• Ability to communicate complex trading analysis and concepts to a variety of audiences

• Flexibility and drive: being a self-starter with the ability to act on their own initiative and deliver excellent outcomes

• Detailed understanding of the specific vulnerabilities of equity markets to market manipulation

• Programming knowledge is a plus with knowledge and experience of python-based applications and visualisation tools such as tableau

Our Values & Diversity

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and our ambition is to cultivate a culture for all employees that respects their individual strengths views and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation one that makes better decisions drives innovation and delivers better regulation.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.

Did you know 50% of our Executive Committee were the first in their family to attend university.

Benefits of working at the FCA

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays

• Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)

• Private healthcare with Bupa

• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)

• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary

• Income protection

We also have a competitive flexible benefits scheme which gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package tailored to suit your lifestyle.

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements.

Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time staggered hours and job shares. We cant promise to give you exactly what you want but we can explore what might work best for both sides.

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Application Support

We are dedicated to removing barriers and ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.

If you have an accessibility need disability or condition requiring changes to the recruitment process please contact your recruiter using the details below and they will be happy to discuss this further with you.

Useful Information and Timeline

• This role is graded as Regulatory Senior Associate

• Advert Closing Date: 26th October

• CV Review/Shortlist: 27th & 28th October

• Case Study Assessment and video interview: w/c 3rd November

Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role therefore please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.

Got a question

If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact Raimonda Stankute at

Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted.