Trade Surveillance Specialist - G MASS Consulting

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 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

• Monitor and review daily surveillance alerts across both client-facing and proprietary business flows, ensuring timely and accurate disposition.


• Investigate potential market abuse, insider trading, and other trading anomalies across multiple asset classes, escalating issues where necessary.


• Conduct deep-dive analysis of the trading activity underpinning alerts, synthesising transactional data, market data, market context, client risk profiles, execution timing, and other potential risk factors.


• Document investigation findings in line with compliance procedures.


• Feed into and drive change initiatives to refine alert parameters, tune detection logic, and where necessary rewrite alert definitions outright - covering risk while aggressively minimising noise.


• Collaborate on the design and development of internal tooling to streamline governance, automate operational workflows, and stand up auxiliary monitoring platforms.


• Work with technology teams to optimise the data feeds, logic, and infrastructure supporting surveillance tools.


• 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.


• 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 Actimise 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, dependent on experience

Length: 12 months, with the likelihood of extension or a strong permanent conversion pathway. Standout performers have a genuine route to permanent positions