Market Surveillance VP

Join Barclays as a Market Surveillance VP, where you will play a key role in strengthening and enhancing the firm’s global market surveillance program. In this role, you will assess surveillance models, identify emerging market risks, and support the detection and prevention of market abuse and misconduct. You will leverage data analytics and risk-based methodologies to optimize surveillance scenarios, improve monitoring effectiveness, and strengthen regulatory compliance.

Collaborating with Technology and business stakeholders, you will support surveillance enhancements, regulatory initiatives, and risk management strategies. This is an opportunity to drive continuous improvement, influence critical decisions, and contribute to a robust and effective market surveillance framework.

To be successful as a Market Surveillance VP, you should have:

• Experience supporting, maintaining, and enhancing market surveillance programs within a financial services or investment banking environment
• Understanding of market surveillance risks, trading activities, transaction flows, and market abuse typologies across financial products
• Knowledge of market manipulation, insider trading, and other forms of market misconduct
• Experience assessing, testing, and optimizing surveillance models, monitoring scenarios, and alert-generation processes
• Analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex trading data, identify suspicious patterns, and evaluate surveillance effectiveness

Other highly valued skills include:

• Comprehensive knowledge of applicable market surveillance regulations, including MiFID II, MAR, and relevant regulatory requirements
• Experience conducting surveillance investigations, identifying emerging risks, and supporting regulatory inquiries and audit requests
• Understanding of Compliance functions, risk management principles, internal controls, and regulatory governance frameworks
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including Compliance, Surveillance Operations, Technology, and business leadership
• Excellent decision-making, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to present findings, recommend improvements, and manage competing priorities

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in Whippany, NJ.

Minimum Salary:$145,000

Maximum Salary:$200,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

To monitor and analyse market activity for potential signs of abuse or manipulation, verifying that there is adherence to regulatory requirements and internal policies and taking action to mitigate market misconduct.

• Monitoring market activities continuously, including order flows, prices, trading volumes and communications to identify potential irregularities or market misconduct.
• Conducting in-depth investigations to gather evidence and assess the risk of market manipulation, insider trading, or other misconduct.
• Business support in projects related to the firm’s market surveillance framework.
• Regulatory query and internal/external audit support.
• Provision of accurate and timely reports to regulatory authorities, internal stakeholders, and management regarding market surveillance activities, incidents, and trends.
• Execution of appropriate controls aligned to the Barclays control framework and related firm-wide standards.
• Control environment support in relation to data quality, model effectiveness and efficiency.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay…