Risk and Controls Analyst (Market Abuse / Fixed Income)

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

Our Contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) is one of our service offerings. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

Our client, a major UK retail bank, provides every day banking services to over 17 million retail customers. The banks expertise and services span across Business Services, Corporate banking, Wealth Management, Group Functions, Retail and Investment Banking.

On behalf of this organisation, AMS are looking for Risk and Controls Analyst (Market Abuse / Fixed Income) for a 6 month contract operating on a hybrid basis with one day per week in the London office.

Purpose of the role:
You'll be conducting Market Abuse Risk Assessments on trades and supporting transformation activities arising from review findings. The project will also enhance market abuse controls and make them available to first line supervisors.

What you'll do:

• Create and maintain project and controls documentation.
• Lead and/or support planning, analysis, design, and implementation activities.
• Document, trace, and link business requirements to future state design.
• Redesign business processes to improve consistency and efficiency.
• Facilitate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and support business users during execution.
• Help embed strategic change within the business.
• Apply subject matter expertise to assess trading behaviours, patterns, and anomalies across Fixed Income, FX, and Credit.
• Analyse trade and order data, including execution flows, pricing structures, and order book behaviour.
• Work with large datasets, deriving actionable insights and presenting findings to senior stakeholders.

The skills you'll need:

• Previous experience within Market Abuse, front‑office supervision, business controls, or market abuse surveillance.
• Experience in Fixed Income, FX and Credit.
• Background as an Ex‑Trader, Trader Assistant, or similar front‑office adjacent role is highly advantageous.
• Strong understanding of market abuse regulations and their application across FX, Fixed Income, and Credit products.
• Solid knowledge of trading patterns and behaviours, with the ability to identify and assess anomalous activity.
• Experience in trade and order analytics, including interpretation of execution data and pricing methodologies.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, including advanced functions and data manipulation.
• Awareness of algorithmic and electronic trading (eTrading) workflows.
• Strong analytical mindset with exposure to change initiatives within the financial crime or conduct risk space.
• Strong communication skills, with experience engaging senior stakeholders.

Next steps

This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

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