Senior SMARTS Surveillance Analyst

About this role

Our client is seeking an experienced Surveillance Analyst to join a growing Market Surveillance team. The successful candidate will play a key role in monitoring trading activity, identifying potential market abuse, and ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.

This position requires hands-on experience with SMARTS Surveillance and a strong understanding of market conduct, trading behaviours, and regulatory expectations within financial markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct daily market surveillance activities using SMARTS and other monitoring tools.
• Investigate alerts relating to potential market abuse.
• Analyse trading data and identify unusual patterns or suspicious activity.
• Escalate and document surveillance findings in accordance with internal procedures.
• Produce clear and concise investigation reports for management and regulatory review.
• Support regulatory enquiries, audits, and compliance monitoring activities.
• Assist in the calibration, testing, and enhancement of surveillance scenarios and alerts.
• Collaborate with Compliance, Risk, Trading, and Operations teams to strengthen the firm's surveillance framework.
• Contribute to ongoing improvements in surveillance processes, controls, and technology.

Required Experience & Skills

• Proven experience in a Market Surveillance, Compliance Monitoring, Trade Surveillance, or Financial Crime role.
• Demonstrable experience using SMARTS Surveillance .
• Strong understanding of market abuse regulations and surveillance methodologies.
• Knowledge of relevant regulatory frameworks, such as:
• MAR (Market Abuse Regulation)
• FCA regulations
• MiFID II
• Experience analysing complex datasets and trading activity.
• Strong investigative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent report writing and communication abilities.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.

Desirable Qualifications

• Degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Mathematics, Law, or a related discipline.
• Experience within an exchange, broker, investment bank, asset manager, or trading venue.
• Knowledge of equities, fixed income and derivatives products

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