Trade Surveillance Specialist

G MASS Consulting are partnered with a leading Hedge Fund, as they seek a Trade Surveillance professional to join its Compliance and Surveillance team in New York.

This role is ideal for someone who combines hands-on trade surveillance experience with strong data manipulation and transformation skills in SQL (and some Python). This exciting role has a combination of BAU surveillance responsibilities, as well as process and data transformation initiatives to enhance detection capabilities, data quality, 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

• 4+ years’ experience in trade surveillance, compliance monitoring, or control functions at a leading hedge fund (preferred), 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.

Benefits

Salary: to be discussed, based on experience

Length: 12 months, with the likelihood of being made permanent