Senior Market Surveillance Lead, 24x5 Trading

LSEG; King (WV); On-site; USD 119,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement planning

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is seeking a Manager-level Market Supervision professional to co-lead oversight of 24x5 trading activities for LSE’s extended hours, ensuring orderly markets outside UK hours and adherence to venue rules.

You will manage real-time and post-trade supervision, escalate during market events, and help develop playbooks for cross-time-zone operations. A strong regulatory background and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience in market supervision, trading venue operations, compliance, risk, front-office trading, surveillance, exchange operations or a 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 applicable 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, including the ability to interact confidently with member firms, technology, operations, compliance, legal, risk and senior management.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce concise incident summaries, escalation notes, decision records and regulatory-ready explanations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage real-time and post-trade supervision of LSE 24 activity ensuring effective oversight of trading behaviour, market quality, system events and participant activity.
• Act as a senior Market Supervision presence during non-UK working hours, providing experienced judgement and management of trading halts, trade cancellations, potential disorderly trading conditions and other market events.
• Drive the development, testing and continuous improvement of procedures, playbooks and escalation paths for overnight and cross-time-zone supervision.
• Provide senior input into surveillance coverage, controls calibration, market event handling and operational readiness for LSE 24
• Support readiness activity ahead of launch, including scenario testing, dress rehearsals, incident simulations, communication templates, regulatory evidence packs and lessons-learned processes.
• Interact with member firms and market participants on supervisory matters, including rule application, trade queries, incident follow-up and requests for information.
• Identify, investigate and elevate unusual trading patterns or potential market abuse indicators, including preparation of appropriate internal analysis and potential regulatory referral materials.
• Contribute to future expansion planning for LSE 24, including any broadening beyond the initial ETP scope, further operating model refinement, and potential interaction with future digital market infrastructure.

Skills

Market supervision

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Surveillance tools

Trading platforms

Job description

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is seeking a Manager-level Market Supervision professional to co-lead oversight of 24x5 trading activities for LSE’s extended hours, ensuring orderly markets outside UK hours and adherence to venue rules.

You will manage real-time and post-trade supervision, escalate during market events, and help develop playbooks for cross-time-zone operations. A strong regulatory background and leadership are essential.