Trade Surveillance Analyst | Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Review and analyse simulated and real-world trading scenarios for indicators of market abuse.
• Evaluate AI-generated surveillance alerts and determine whether escalation, closure, or further investigation is warranted.
• Develop and refine surveillance evaluation rubrics covering Insider Trading, Market Manipulation, Spoofing & Layering, Wash Trading, Front Running, Marking the Close, Cross-Market Manipulation, and Information Leakage.
• Audit trade surveillance workflows and alert investigation methodologies.
• Provide expert feedback on AI-generated case narratives, investigations, and regulatory reasoning.
• Validate whether surveillance conclusions align with applicable regulations and industry best practices.
• Contribute domain expertise to improve AI models used for compliance monitoring and financial crime detection.

Requirements

• Experience in Trade Surveillance, Market Surveillance, Market Abuse Monitoring, Compliance Surveillance, or Regulatory Oversight.
• Hands-on experience with one or more surveillance platforms such as Nasdaq SMARTS, NICE Actimize, Eventus Validus, ACA Sigma, SteelEye, eFlow, OneMarket Surveillance, TradingHub, or similar surveillance solutions.
• Strong understanding of market abuse regulations and frameworks, including SEC and FINRA regulations, MAR (Market Abuse Regulation), MiFID II, FCA market conduct requirements, and exchange surveillance standards.
• Experience investigating surveillance alerts and documenting case outcomes.
• Familiarity with equities, options, futures, fixed income, FX, commodities, or digital asset markets.
• Fluent English communication skills.
• Experience at investment banks, broker-dealers, exchanges, regulatory agencies, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, or surveillance technology providers (preferred).
• Prior involvement in surveillance model tuning, alert calibration, threshold optimisation, or surveillance program design (preferred).
• Experience working directly with regulators or responding to regulatory inquiries and examinations (preferred).
• Knowledge of algorithmic trading, high-frequency trading, and electronic market structure (preferred).
• Certifications such as CAMS, CISI, CFA, FRM, or equivalent compliance-related credentials (preferred).