Market Oversight Leader - Overnight & 24x5

LSEG; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement benefits

Job summary

LSEG is seeking a Market Supervision professional to co-lead coverage for the 24x5 extended trading model, ensuring orderly and compliant activity across venues during non-UK hours. You will supervise live market activity, manage halts, cancellations and abnormal trading, and collaborate with member firms and internal teams to document incidents and escalate where needed.

The role requires clear judgment, leadership and timely decision-making, with involvement in scenario testing, playbooks, and

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience required.
• Experience in market supervision, trading venue operations, compliance, risk, front-office trading, surveillance, exchange operations or similar regulated financial markets environment.
• Strong understanding of secondary market trading, market structure, trading rules, order and trade lifecycle, and venue control frameworks.
• Experience managing or escalating live market events such as trading halts, disorderly trading conditions, trade cancellations, technical incidents or participant issues.
• Strong working knowledge of regulation relevant to UK and European trading venues including MiFID, MiFIR and MAR.
• Proven ability to lead teams, manage workflow and maintain effective decision-making in time-critical situations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to interact with member firms, technology, operations, compliance, legal, risk and senior management.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills with ability to produce concise incident summaries and regulatory-ready explanations.

Responsibilities

• Lead real-time and post-trade supervision of LSE 24 activity with oversight of trading behaviour, market quality, system events and participant activity.
• Act as a senior Market Supervision presence during non-UK hours, managing trading halts, trade cancellations, and other market events.
• Develop, test and improve procedures, playbooks, and escalation paths for overnight supervision.
• Provide senior input into surveillance coverage, controls calibration, market event handling and readiness for LSE 24.
• Support readiness activities including scenario testing, dress rehearsals and incident simulations.
• Interact with member firms and market participants on supervisory matters, including rule application and information requests.
• Investigate and escalate unusual trading patterns or potential market abuse indicators with regulatory-ready materials.
• Contribute to future expansion planning for LSE 24 and broader operating model refinement.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Decision making under pressure

Regulatory knowledge

Strong communication

Leadership

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Surveillance tools

Trading platforms

Incident management tools

Large trading datasets

Job description

LSEG is seeking a Market Supervision professional to co-lead coverage for the 24x5 extended trading model, ensuring orderly and compliant activity across venues during non-UK hours. You will supervise live market activity, manage halts, cancellations and abnormal trading, and collaborate with member firms and internal teams to document incidents and escalate where needed.

The role requires clear judgment, leadership and timely decision-making, with involvement in scenario testing, playbooks, and