What are the responsibilities and job description for the Trade Surveillance Specialist position at G MASS?
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.
- 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.
Salary: to be discussed, based on experience
Length: 12 months, with the likelihood of extension.