Senior APAC Trade Surveillance Lead

ittihad medical centre; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC is expanding its APAC compliance program. Senior Compliance Officer - Surveillance will own APAC trade surveillance across equities, derivatives and commodities, and work hands-on with Trading, Technology, Compliance and Legal to build robust controls.

You will design alerts, analyze data, investigate findings, and communicate decisions clearly to traders, regulators and management. APAC regulations knowledge and market microstructure insight are essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on APAC trade surveillance experience in a trading environment.
• Experience designing surveillance alerts from scratch.
• Strong Python/SQL skills to interrogate order, trade, and market data.
• Ability to validate outputs and challenge vendors/tech teams with independent view.
• Clear investigation methodology distinguishing false positives from deeper matters.
• Strong equities knowledge and understanding of market microstructure.
• Knowledge of APAC regulatory requirements (SFC CSRC ASIC).
• Experience across APAC markets; familiarity with OneTick/SMARTS is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Developing the APAC trade surveillance roadmap across markets, products and strategies.
• Identifying market-abuse risks and translating regulations into surveillance controls.
• Applying a structured investigation framework to alerts and documenting evidence for closure or escalation.
• Designing surveillance alerts from first principles, including logic, inputs, calculations and thresholds.
• Writing functional specifications and coordinating with developers to implement tooling.
• Using Python/SQL to interrogate data, prototype analyses and assess alert performance.
• Reviewing model logic and vendor-provided surveillance; challenge systems as needed.
• Managing alert queues and reducing false positives without weakening coverage.
• Collaborating with traders to understand strategies and potential misconduct.
• Supporting regulatory inquiries with clear, evidence-based analysis.

Skills

Trade surveillance

Alert design

Python

SQL

Investigation methodology

Equities knowledge

Market microstructure

APAC regulations

Vendor management (OneTick/SMARTS)

Technical communication

Tools

OneTick

SMARTS

Nice Actimize

Job description

IMC is expanding its APAC compliance program. Senior Compliance Officer - Surveillance will own APAC trade surveillance across equities, derivatives and commodities, and work hands-on with Trading, Technology, Compliance and Legal to build robust controls.

You will design alerts, analyze data, investigate findings, and communicate decisions clearly to traders, regulators and management. APAC regulations knowledge and market microstructure insight are essential.