Trade Surveillance Expert (Market Abuse & Conduct Monitoring)

1 month, 4 weeks ago
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Senior
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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11-50
Founded 2020

Description

  • Review and analyze simulated and real-world trading activity to identify indicators of potential market abuse.
  • Evaluate AI-generated surveillance alerts and determine whether to escalate, close, or investigate them further.
  • Assess trading patterns across multiple asset classes and flag suspicious behavior for regulatory review.
  • Develop and refine surveillance evaluation methodologies across a range of market abuse scenarios, including insider trading, spoofing, layering, wash trading, and front running.
  • Review surveillance workflows, alert investigation processes, case narratives, and investigative findings.
  • Validate whether surveillance conclusions align with regulatory expectations and industry best practices.
  • Provide expert feedback on surveillance methodologies, escalation frameworks, and case management approaches.
  • Contribute subject matter expertise to improve AI models used for surveillance, compliance monitoring, and financial crime detection.
  • Support the development of regulatory reasoning frameworks and surveillance training datasets.
  • Help improve the accuracy and effectiveness of AI-driven monitoring systems.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Trade Surveillance, Market Surveillance, Compliance Surveillance, Market Abuse Monitoring, Regulatory Oversight, or a related function.
  • Hands-on experience using surveillance platforms such as Nasdaq SMARTS, NICE Actimize, Eventus Validus, ACA Sigma, SteelEye, eFlow, OneMarket Surveillance, TradingHub, or similar technologies.
  • Strong understanding of market abuse regulations and surveillance frameworks, including SEC and FINRA regulations, MAR, MiFID II, FCA Market Conduct Requirements, and exchange surveillance standards.
  • Experience investigating surveillance alerts and documenting findings and case outcomes.
  • Familiarity with one or more asset classes, including equities, options, futures, fixed income, FX, commodities, or digital assets/cryptocurrencies.
  • Strong analytical and written communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate investigative reasoning and regulatory conclusions.
  • Professional fluency in English.
  • Experience working within an investment bank, broker-dealer, exchange, regulatory agency, hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, or surveillance technology provider, preferred.
  • Exposure to surveillance model calibration, threshold tuning, alert optimization, or surveillance program design, preferred.
  • Experience responding to regulatory examinations, inquiries, or enforcement reviews, preferred.
  • Understanding of algorithmic trading, electronic market structure, and high-frequency trading environments, preferred.
  • Professional certifications such as CAMS, CFA, FRM, CISI, or other compliance or financial risk certifications, preferred.

Benefits

  • Compensation of $100 per hour.
  • Fully remote and flexible work arrangement.
  • Project-based assignments with potential for future opportunities based on expertise and performance.
  • Weekly payments through approved payment platforms based on completed work.
  • Independent contractor engagement.

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