Surveillance Officer Hedge Fund

OCR Alpha is working with a leading global investment firm, who is looking to hire a Trade Surveillance Lead to join its growing Compliance function in London.

This is a broad and high-impact role for an experienced surveillance professional who enjoys working closely with investment teams, Technology and Compliance, and who is interested in helping to develop and enhance a sophisticated surveillance framework.

This role will be in the office four days/week.

You will take ownership of the firm's trade surveillance activities, with responsibility for monitoring potential market abuse and ensuring adherence to regulatory and internal requirements.

The role will include:

• Conducting trade surveillance across multiple asset classes, identifying potential market abuse including spoofing, wash trading and insider dealing
• Monitoring best execution, trade allocation and cross-trading activity
• Reviewing and enhancing existing surveillance scenarios, controls and calibration to improve effectiveness and reduce false positives
• Supporting the development and integration of electronic communications surveillance
• Working closely with Technology and external vendors on surveillance systems, data and platform enhancements
• Supporting regulatory monitoring around short positions and shareholder disclosure requirements
• Conducting thematic reviews and identifying areas of compliance risk or control weakness
• Working closely with Front Office, Operations, Risk and other stakeholders on surveillance and market conduct matters
• Contributing to surveillance policies, procedures, MI and broader Compliance projects

We're looking for someone with 5+ years' experience in trade or market abuse surveillance, ideally gained within an investment bank, asset manager, hedge fund or other sophisticated trading environment.

You should have:

• Strong knowledge of market abuse regulation and surveillance methodologies
• Experience across trade surveillance and ideally best execution monitoring
• A good understanding of surveillance systems, scenario design, calibration and control testing
• The confidence to work closely with traders, technology teams and senior Compliance stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with excellent attention to detail
• A proactive approach and genuine interest in improving surveillance frameworks rather than simply operating existing processes
• Experience with Excel and project/workflow management tools

Technical skills are desirable rather than essential.

Exposure to Python, VBA, SQL, Power BI or other data/automation tools would be advantageous, particularly for candidates interested in using technology to improve surveillance effectiveness.

This is an opportunity to join a lean, collaborative Compliance team within a sophisticated global investment business, with significant scope to take ownership of the surveillance function and help shape its future development.