About the Role
This role is ideal for someone who combines hands-on trade surveillance experience with strong data manipulation and transformation skills. The role has a combination of BAU surveillance responsibilities, as well as process and data transformation initiatives to enhance detection capabilities, data quality, and automation. Equally important is mindset. The team is small, fast-moving, and highly commercial, and the successful candidate will be someone who takes ownership from day one, works without hand-holding, and actively looks for ways to make the surveillance framework better.
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 and reduce false positives.
- 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.
- Take ownership of process and data improvement initiatives end to end, identifying opportunities proactively rather than waiting for direction.
- Assist with periodic reviews, regulatory requests, and audit queries.
- Contribute to ongoing enhancements of the surveillance framework and data architecture.
- Identify what needs doing, drive it to completion, and hold yourself accountable end to end.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience in trade surveillance, compliance monitoring, or control functions at a hedge fund, investment bank, or asset manager.
- Understanding of global market abuse regulations and surveillance practices across asset classes.
- Strong data analysis and data manipulation capability, including SQL, with the ability to interrogate large datasets and turn findings into practical improvements.
- Demonstrated experience balancing BAU surveillance work with data transformation or enhancement projects.
- Comfortable operating as the bridge between compliance and technology — writing requirements, supporting UAT, and holding technology teams to account.
- Curiosity and a demonstrable track record of improving the processes you inherit rather than simply operating them.
Skills
- SQL
- Trade surveillance
- Compliance monitoring
- Data manipulation
- Data transformation
- Process improvement
- Scenario design
- Rule design
- Alert calibration
- Threshold tuning
Location
- London
Work Type
- 12 months
- Likelihood of extension
- Permanent conversion pathway
Experience Level
- Hands-on experience
Salary/Compensations
- up to £150k
About the Company
- G MASS Consulting are partnered with a leading Hedge Fund, as they seek a Trade Surveillance professional to join its Compliance and Surveillance team.
