G MASS Consulting · 5 hours ago
Trade Surveillance Specialist
New York, NY
Contract
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expG MASS Consulting is partnered with a leading Hedge Fund, seeking a Trade Surveillance professional to join its Compliance and Surveillance team in New York. The role involves performing trade surveillance reviews, monitoring alerts, conducting investigations, and enhancing detection capabilities through data manipulation and transformation initiatives.
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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
Qualification
Required
4+ years' experience in trade surveillance, compliance monitoring, or control functions at a leading hedge fund, asset manager, or investment bank
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
Company
G MASS Consulting
G MASS is part of the Good Together Group. G MASS is a specialist resource augmentation consultancy focused on Financial Services & Insurance.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase