Trade Surveillance Specialist

G MASS Consulting; New York (NY); On-site; USD 127,305 - 212,175; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site in New York

12-month contract with extension path

Permanent conversion pathway possible

Job summary

G MASS Consulting partners with a leading Hedge Fund to hire a Trade Surveillance professional in New York. You will join the Compliance and Surveillance team, performing daily reviews and deep investigations across asset classes, with a focus on data quality and automation.

The role combines BAU surveillance work with data transformation projects, ownership from day one, and a fast, commercially driven environment. On-site in NY office.

Qualifications

• Hands-on trade surveillance experience in hedge funds, banks, or asset managers.
• Strong data analysis and manipulation skills with SQL ability.
• Familiarity with market regulation regimes and surveillance practices.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily trade surveillance reviews across asset classes and investigate anomalies.
• Monitor alerts, triage issues, and document findings per procedures.
• Refine surveillance scenarios and thresholds to reduce false positives.
• Collaborate with technology teams to optimize data feeds and infrastructure.
• Drive data transformation initiatives to improve automation and scalability.
• Own end-to-end process improvements and respond to regulatory requests.
• Support audits and contribute to ongoing surveillance framework enhancements.

Skills

Ownership mindset

Trade surveillance

Data analysis

SQL

Dataset interrogation

Tools

Actimize

SMARTS

SQL tooling

Job description

G MASS Consulting are partnered with a leading Hedge Fund, as they seek a Trade Surveillance professional to join its Compliance and Surveillance team in New York.

This role is ideal for someone who combines hands‑on trade surveillance experience with strong data manipulation and transformation skills. The role has a combination of BAU surveillance responsibilities, as well as process and data transformation initiatives to enhance detection capabilities, data quality, and automation.

Equally important is mindset. The team is small, fast‑moving, and highly commercial, and the successful candidate will be someone who takes ownership from day one, works without hand‑holding, and actively looks for ways to make the surveillance framework better.

This position is based in the firm's New York office, five days per week on site.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily trade surveillance reviews, investigating potential market abuse, insider trading, and other trading anomalies across multiple asset classes.
• Monitor and triage alerts from surveillance systems, escalating issues where necessary.
• Conduct deep‑diving investigations into trading behaviour and document findings in line with compliance procedures.
• Maintain and refine existing surveillance scenarios and thresholds to improve detection accuracy and reduce false positives.
• Collaborate with technology teams to optimise data feeds, logic, and infrastructure supporting surveillance tools.
• Support data transformation projects aimed at improving automation, system scalability, and alert quality.
• Take ownership of process and data improvement initiatives end to end, identifying opportunities proactively rather than waiting for direction.
• Assist with periodic reviews, regulatory requests, and audit queries.
• Contribute to ongoing enhancements of the surveillance framework and data architecture.

Requirements

• A genuine ownership mindset. The team is deliberately lean and does not operate with close supervision: you will be expected to identify what needs doing, drive it to completion, and hold yourself accountable end to end. This is the single most important criterion for the role.
• Hands‑on experience in trade surveillance, compliance monitoring, or control functions at a hedge fund, investment bank, or asset manager.
• Understanding of US and global market abuse regulations and surveillance practices across asset classes, including familiarity with the SEC and FINRA regulatory framework.
• Strong data analysis and data manipulation capability, including SQL, with the ability to interrogate large datasets and turn findings into practical improvements.
• Demonstrated experience balancing BAU surveillance work with data transformation or enhancement projects.
• Comfortable operating as the bridge between compliance and technology — writing requirements, supporting UAT, and holding technology teams to account.
• Exposure to surveillance platforms such as Actimize or SMARTS, including scenario and rule design, alert calibration, and threshold tuning, is advantageous.
• Curiosity and a demonstrable track record of improving the processes you inherit rather than simply operating them.

Benefits

• Rate: up to $1150/d
• Length: 12 months, with the likelihood of extension or a strong permanent conversion pathway. Standout performers have a genuine route to permanent positions