Senior Market Supervision Surveillance Specialist

Overview

In this role you will help identify and analyse potential market abuse and financial crime across LSEG secondary markets. You will work with post-trade trading data to detect unusual patterns and support investigations for potential referrals. The role combines hands-on data analysis with developing the team’s data-analytic capabilities, in a collaborative, quality-driven environment. You will engage with stakeholders, present cases, and contribute to maintaining orderly, compliant markets and effective surveillance. This is a senior, impact-focused position within Market Supervision that emphasizes growth in data skills and practical regulatory insight.

Pay / Benefits

• healthcare
• retirement planning
• paid volunteering days
• wellbeing initiatives
• tailored benefits and support

Responsibilities

• Identify and analyse potential market abuse and financial crime in secondary markets
• Conduct detailed post-trade trading analysis for LSEG venues
• Help develop capabilities to manipulate and visualise large data sets
• Raise trading queries with members, present cases at team meetings, and submit STORs when needed
• Identify and implement improved methods for data manipulation/analysis using BI tools, Excel, or with the Quantitative Surveillance and Technology team
• Optimise and develop surveillance alerts
• Keep team documentation up-to-date (alert versions, procedures, thresholds)

Key requirements

• Experience with large datasets and identifying unusual trading patterns
• Experience in automating manual tasks and introducing new tools/techniques
• Experience in trading analysis related to market misconduct, especially market abuse
• Awareness of UK/European market abuse legislation
• Knowledge of secondary markets and trading across equities, FICC, and related derivatives
• Strong analytical and data manipulation skills
• Good organisation, prioritisation and ability to progress issues in a timely manner
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to present effectively in writing and speaking

• Proactive attitude
• Strong team player
• Good stakeholder management and regular communication
• SQL (Desirable)
• VBA (Desirable)
• Python data packages (Desirable)

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