Head of Emea Surveillance

**About this role**:
The EMEA Compliance Surveillance team ('Surveillance') monitors and analyses the sales, trading and banking activities conducted by Wells Fargo's Corporate & Investment Bank 'CIB' and Commercial Banking business groups in EMEA as well as undertaking the surveillanceof electronic communications and voice communications across both business lines and Enterprise functions internationally.
Managing a team of surveillance analysts operating a range of trade surveillance solutions and electronic communications, across multiple asset classes, jurisdictions and entities. Responsible for the risk assessment process and governance process across surveillancewithin Wells Fargo EMEA. Ensuring consistent practice and processes in the management of surveillance and recommending best practice.
The position reports into the EMEA Head of Markets Compliance and will work closely with the rest of the Regional and Global Surveillance function; Compliance Advisory, Financial Crime Compliance, Risk, Legal and Audit and the Front Office COOs and ControlOffices.
**In this role, you will be responsible for**:

- Developing, enhancing and maintaining a robust surveillance program to across Wells Fargo in EMEA (UK, Ireland, France); working closely with Financial Crime Compliance as well as with colleagues internationally (APAC, Canada and LATAM) and at enterpriselevel (US).
- Leading a team responsible for surveillance activities across EMEA, including recruitment, development and retention of staff.
- Ensuring adherence to applicable regulations, particularly those relating to Market Abuse and Individual and Market Conduct in relation to Corporate & Investment Banking activities.
- Establishing and maintaining Key Performance Indicators, Key Risk Indicators relevant to the performance of the surveillance function and reporting of risk.
- Establishing and maintaining governance processes in respect of market abuse surveillance; alert threshold calibration, risk assessment, data integrity and quality assurance.
- Defining and managing data sourcing and data quality processes, working with relevant stakeholders to review data quality issues and agree remediation priorities.
- Participating in and providing compliance support for regulatory projects and initiatives. Ensuring in the context of regulatory change programmes that surveillance requirements are identified and addressed.
- Engaging in business change initiatives to ensure that surveillance requirements are identified and addressed.
- Escalating and reporting violations of regulatory obligations, including development of a robust STOR process.
- Partnering with Banking, Trading and Sales desk heads, Technology, and support teams to build out robust surveillance scenarios.
- Performing deep dive investigations to identify potential market abuse, including market manipulation, trading on insider information, competition law and market conduct breaches.
- Designing and delivering training on newly implemented trade surveillance capabilities.
- Demonstrating and sharing knowledge of global regulatory developments and providing practical and immediate interpretation of regulations in the context of the firm's business activities.
- Suggesting new processes for identifying and monitoring Compliance and Conduct Risk.
- Supporting Compliance Testing and Internal Audit and where appropriate taking responsibility for addressing corrective action plans in respect of Regulatory Compliance surveillance.
- Identifying opportunities to enhance existing surveillance processes and recommending areas for improvement.
- Ensuring the escalation and championing of EMEA surveillance needs including through close liaison with stakeholders in the US.
- Pro-actively identifying and managing Regulatory Compliance risk.

**Required Qualifications, International**:

- Educated to degree level.
- Industry qualification &/or post graduate qualification desirable.
- Very strong understanding of international regulatory requirements particularly Market Abuse and Conduct obligations.
- US regulatory knowledge desirable
- Previous experience at US headquartered Financial Institution an advantage
- Experienced people manager with ability to provide support and meaningful coaching to grow the team and promote learning and teamwork.
- Willingness to work across different time zones and be flexible and work under high pressure situations.
- Strong knowledge of Corporate & Investment Banking products and services.
- Extensive experience with communications and trade surveillance tools
- Communication - excellent interpersonal, communication (written and oral) skills are essential with an ability to liaise professionally and with diplomacy across all levels of staff.
- Highly IT literate - including Microsoft Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint and other reporting tools but also able to understand use of technology for improving the regulatory control environment.

**We Value Diversity**
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountablefor execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and complianceobligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with thebusiness unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.