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About the Opportunity Job TypeApplication 14 July 2025 Title Investment Compliance Monitoring - Senior Associate Department General Counsel Shared Services Location Gurgaon, India Reports To Manager - Investment Compliance Monitoring Level 3 Were proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved thisBy working together - and supporting each other - all over the world. So, join our General Counsel Shared Services Team and feel like youre part of something bigger. General Counsel Shared Services General Counsel (GC) is a trusted advisor to all parts of Fidelity International Limited (FIL), providing high-value independent advisory and assurance expertise through our specialist teams. GC comprises of Legal, Risk, Compliance, Tax, and Public Policy & Strategic Relationship Management. GC Shared Services function is a global centre of expertise currently in Dalian and India, providing operational support and services to the General Counsel function. Global Investment Compliance: The Global Investment Compliance (GIC) function provides advice, support, oversight and challenge to teams across Fidelitys Investment Solutions and Services (ISS) business. Stakeholders include portfolio managers, research analysts, trading desks, corporate finance, institutional teams and their respective support groups. Investment Compliance Monitoring: The Investment Compliance Monitoring team forms a crucial component of Global Investment Compliance department, with teams located in Japan, Hong Kong, London, and Gurgaon. Their primary role is to facilitate the implementation and continuous execution of surveillance activities across communication, trading, and other regulatory surveillance processes. This involves examining alerts, identifying potential market abuse or misconduct, escalating issues, supporting investigations, and strengthening surveillance controls. The team works closely with global stakeholders, aids in system testing and optimisation, and plays a key role in enhancing processes and maintaining thorough documentation. About your role You will be responsible for performing Compliance monitoring. This will include monitoring of communications (emails, Bloomberg messages, Zoom, Teams, Voice) of the firms investment professionals (e.g. traders, portfolio managers, research analysts), and monitoring to detect misconduct, market abuse, or behaviour that is not in accordance with the firms policies. In addition, there will be opportunities to perform other monitoring performed by the firms Investment Compliance function. Key Responsibilities Assist with the performance of periodic and recurring surveillance controls pertaining to FILs investment management and client brokerage activities; Monitoring of electronic communications and trading activities using vendor and proprietary tools. This will primarily consist of reviewing exceptions and performing further investigation where required; Assist with and lead data-driven deep dives and thematic reviews with relation to best execution, conduct of business, customer treatment & conflicts of interest, and market conduct; Identify, escalate, resolve, track and report compliance exceptions in-line with internal policy and regulatory requirements; Ongoing calibration and administration of the monitoring tools and production of management information and reports; Participate in ongoing change management initiatives by contributing to planning, testing, and implementation of systems or procedural changes; Monitor post-implementation performance and flag deviations or unintended consequences; Act as a liaison between Compliance, Technology, and Business teams to ensure seamless adoption of changes; Develop effective working relationships with other functional areas for timely receipt of information required for the completion of tasks; Perform tasks within defined SLAs and assist in other projects or tasks, as required. Experience and Qualifications Required 5-7 years of relevant experience in monitoring and surveillance within the financial services industry; Bachelor of Business or Commerce preferred; Highly motivated, able to think logically, critically and quickly, with an ability to plan, organise, co-ordinate and work well under pressure and remain motivated while completing routine tasks; Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a track record of coordinating and working with teammates and stakeholders across multiple locations to deliver projects and deliverables; Good understanding of concepts and practices relating to trading, investment management and research; Familiarity with data visualisation tools and AI-enabled platforms would be an advantage; Working knowledge of international regulatory frameworks and strong understanding of market abuse typologies; Familiarity with designing systems testing plans and test cases, with a keen interest in emerging technologies.
