Electronic Communications Surveillance Analyst

Electronic Communications Surveillance Analyst

Location: New York

Business Area: Legal, Compliance, and Risk

Reference #: 10054221

About the Team:

Bloomberg’s Legal and Compliance Department plays a critical role in supporting our businesses and operations around the world. We are a team 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. Our 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. This role supports the firm's 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 and monitor employee communications across email, Bloomberg Chat, Slack, and mobile messaging platforms.
• Identification: Identify indicators of market abuse, insider trading, bribery and corruption, conflicts of interest, misconduct, or policy breaches.
• Investigation: Perform targeted reviews and ad hoc searches based on emerging risks or regulatory requests. Analyze potentially suspicious communications and related business activity. Escalate issues to Compliance, Legal, Human Resources, or senior management.
• Support: 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 Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 1–3 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 willingness to learn new systems.

Desirable Experience and Attributes

• Experience using communications surveillance, eDiscovery, or compliance monitoring platforms (e.g., Bloomberg Vault, Behavox, Smarsh, Global Relay, SteelEye, Relativity, or similar).
• Knowledge of securities regulations and market conduct rules.
• Investigative mindset and critical thinking.
• Regulatory awareness and risk assessment skills.
• Strong documentation and report writing abilities.
• Time management, prioritization, ethical judgment, and integrity.

Compensation and Benefits

Salary Range: $130,000 - $160,000 USD Annual + Benefits + Bonus.

Note: The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training, and skill level.

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and provide a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) + match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.