Trade Surveillance Lead: Data & Automation

G MASS Consulting; New York (NY); On-site; USD 184,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Rate: up to $1150/d

12-month contract

Job summary

G MASS Consulting is partnered with a leading Hedge Fund in New York seeking a Trade Surveillance professional to join its Compliance and Surveillance team. The role combines hands-on surveillance with data manipulation and transformation to enhance detection, data quality, and automation.

The successful candidate will work in a small, fast-moving team, taking ownership from day one and driving improvements across the surveillance framework.

Qualifications

• Ownership mindset: take initiative and drive tasks end-to-end.
• Hands-on trade surveillance and compliance monitoring in finance.
• Familiarity with US/global market abuse rules incl. SEC/FINRA.
• Strong data analysis and SQL capabilities; interrogate large datasets.
• Ability to balance BAU work with data transformation projects.
• Bridge between compliance and technology; write requirements and support UAT.
• Exposure to surveillance platforms such as Actimize or SMARTS.
• Proactive mindset to improve processes in inherited workflows.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and review daily surveillance alerts across client-facing and proprietary flows.
• Investigate market abuse, insider trading, and trading anomalies; escalate as needed.
• Deep-dive analysis of trading activity underpinning alerts with data synthesis.
• Document findings per compliance procedures.
• Drive changes to refine alert parameters and reduce noise.
• Collaborate on design/development of internal tooling to streamline governance.
• Work with tech teams to optimize data feeds and surveillance infrastructure.
• Own end-to-end data/process improvement initiatives.
• Assist with regulatory requests and audit queries.
• Contribute to ongoing enhancements of the surveillance framework.

Skills

Ownership mindset

Trade surveillance

Compliance monitoring

SQL

Regulatory knowledge

Data analysis

Data transformation

UAT liaison

Actimize/SMARTS

Job description

G MASS Consulting is partnered with a leading Hedge Fund in New York seeking a Trade Surveillance professional to join its Compliance and Surveillance team. The role combines hands-on surveillance with data manipulation and transformation to enhance detection, data quality, and automation.

The successful candidate will work in a small, fast-moving team, taking ownership from day one and driving improvements across the surveillance framework.