Remote Trade Surveillance Analyst for MAR & Market Abuse

Capitex; Greater London; Remote; GBP 92,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Competitive day rate

Weekly payments

Long-term contract

Job summary

Capitex leads a large-scale Trade Surveillance Alert Review project and is hiring experienced Analysts to review, investigate, and disposition alerts across multiple asset classes, ensuring MAR compliance and regulator-ready rationales.

You will assess potential market abuse behaviours, escalate suspicious activity, and maintain high-quality documentation while achieving throughput targets in a remote, fast-paced remediation programme.

Qualifications

• 2+ years’ experience in a Trade Surveillance, Market Abuse, or Market Monitoring role.
• Strong understanding of MAR and key market abuse typologies.
• Experience using surveillance platforms such as NICE Actimize, SMARTS, Scila, Nasdaq, ACA/OneMars, Behavox, or Mantas.

Responsibilities

• Review and investigate daily trade surveillance alerts across asset classes (equities, fixed income, FX, derivatives).
• Analyse trading patterns to identify insider dealing, market manipulation, wash trades, layering, spoofing, and other forms of market abuse.
• Conduct research including news checks, historical behaviour analysis, and counterparty reviews.
• Write regulator-ready rationales for each alert.
• Escalate potential suspicious activity to Investigations or Compliance Advisory teams.
• Work toward daily and weekly throughput targets with strong accuracy and quality control.
• Contribute to improvements in alert calibration, thresholds, and surveillance processes where appropriate.
• Collaborate with team leads and quality assurance reviewers to maintain consistency and high standards.

Skills

Trade Surveillance

Market Abuse

Market Monitoring

MAR Compliance

Analytical Skills

Regulatory Documentation

Tools

NICE Actimize

SMARTS

Scila

Nasdaq

ACA / OneMars

Behavox

Mantas

Job description

Capitex leads a large-scale Trade Surveillance Alert Review project and is hiring experienced Analysts to review, investigate, and disposition alerts across multiple asset classes, ensuring MAR compliance and regulator-ready rationales.

You will assess potential market abuse behaviours, escalate suspicious activity, and maintain high-quality documentation while achieving throughput targets in a remote, fast-paced remediation programme.