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About the Role

Join a leading Hedge Fund's Compliance and Surveillance team in London as a Trade Surveillance professional. This role involves daily trade surveillance, investigating potential market abuse, and enhancing detection capabilities through data transformation and automation.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily trade surveillance reviews, investigating potential market abuse, insider trading, and other trading anomalies across multiple asset classes.
• Monitor and triage alerts from surveillance systems, escalating issues where necessary.
• Conduct deep-dive investigations into trading behaviour and document findings in line with compliance procedures.
• Maintain and refine existing surveillance scenarios and thresholds to improve detection accuracy.
• Use SQL (and some Python) to extract, transform, and analyse large trading datasets for enhanced surveillance coverage.
• Collaborate with technology teams to optimise data feeds, logic, and infrastructure supporting surveillance tools.
• Support data transformation projects aimed at improving automation, system scalability, and alert quality.
• Assist with periodic reviews, regulatory requests, and audit queries.
• Contribute to ongoing enhancements of the surveillance framework and data architecture.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience in trade surveillance, compliance monitoring, or control functions at a hedge fund or investment bank (preferred), or asset manager.
• Strong SQL skills with the ability to extract, clean, and manipulate large and complex datasets.
• Familiarity with Python for data analysis, scripting, or process automation.
• Understanding of global market abuse regulations and surveillance practices across asset classes.
• Demonstrated experience balancing BAU surveillance work with data transformation or enhancement projects.

Skills

• SQL
• Python
• Data Manipulation
• Data Transformation
• Trade Surveillance
• Compliance Monitoring
• Market Abuse Regulations
• Data Analysis
• Scripting
• Process Automation

Location

• London

Work Type

• 12 months
• Likelihood of extension

Experience Level

• 5+ years

Salary/Compensations

• To be discussed, based on experience

About the Company

• G MASS Consulting are partnered with a leading Hedge Fund.