Global Head of Market Surveillance Compliance, Managing Director

Who We Are Looking For

The Global Head of Market Surveillance Compliance is a senior leadership role responsible for designing, overseeing, and continuously enhancing the firm’s global market surveillance compliance framework across trade and electronic communications surveillance. This role provides strategic direction, independent oversight, and governance to ensure the surveillance program is robust, risk-based, technology-enabled, and aligned with applicable regulatory expectations across jurisdictions. The role partners closely with Compliance, Legal, Risk, Front Office, Operations, and Technology stakeholders to identify emerging risks, assess surveillance effectiveness, drive program enhancements, and support a strong culture of compliance and market integrity.

The Global Head of Market Surveillance Compliance is a senior leadership role responsible for designing, overseeing, and continuously enhancing the firm’s global market surveillance compliance framework across trade and electronic communications surveillance. This role provides strategic direction, independent oversight, and governance to ensure the surveillance program is robust, risk-based, technology-enabled, and aligned with applicable regulatory expectations across jurisdictions. The role partners closely with Compliance, Legal, Risk, Front Office, Operations, and Technology stakeholders to identify emerging risks, assess surveillance effectiveness, drive program enhancements, and support a strong culture of compliance and market integrity.

The team you will be joining plays an important role in the overall success of the organization. Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. To make that happen we need teams like yours to help navigate employees and the organization as a whole. In your role you will strive for cutting-edge solutions, that are straightforward and scalable.

You will help us build resilience and execute day to day deliverables at our best. Join us if making your mark in the financial services industry from day one is a challenge you are up for.

• Lead the global market surveillance compliance program, including trade surveillance and electronic communications surveillance, across relevant business lines, products, and jurisdictions.
• Manage day-to-day operations of market surveillance team across trade and communications surveillance
• Oversee alert review, investigation, escalation, documentation, and thematic analysis processes to ensure consistency, quality, and defensible regulatory outcomes.
• Establish and maintain a comprehensive surveillance governance framework, including policies, procedures, standards, escalation protocols, quality assurance, and management reporting.
• Drive the strategic development and ongoing enhancement of surveillance controls, scenarios, lexicons, models, and workflows to address market abuse, misconduct, and emerging regulatory risks.
• Coordinate with project managers to deliver requirements for surveillance tools and enhancements
• Provide independent oversight and challenge of first-line activities, ensuring surveillance coverage remains aligned to the firm’s business model, trading activity, and regulatory obligations.
• Partner with Technology, Data, and Operations teams to improve surveillance platforms, data quality, model performance, workflow automation, and management information capabilities as well as to ensure success of long-term strategic vision for surveillance initiatives
• Create, test and develop innovative monitoring methods that improve surveillance efforts and align with regulatory expectations
• Develop and deliver meaningful and accurate metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting on surveillance risks, trends, issues, remediation activities, and program effectiveness.
• Monitor regulatory developments, enforcement trends, and industry practices across key jurisdictions, and translate them into actionable program enhancements and policy updates.
• Lead responses to regulatory inquiries, examinations, audits, and…