Trade Surveillance Specialist

G MASSNew York, NY

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Overview

Schedule

Full-time

Career level

Senior-level

Job Description

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 extension.

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