FX Market Surveillance Product Director

Role profile

The FX Market Surveillance Product Director will own end-to-end design, delivery, and evolution of FX trade surveillance across Spot, Forward, Swap, NDF, Options, and emerging FX-linked products. The role ensures compliance with regulatory requirements and internal risk standards across our FX Trading Platforms, bridging business, compliance, and technology teams to build monitoring tools that detect market abuse, misconduct, and anomalies.

Key Responsibilities

• Own product strategy, design, and business and functional requirements for FX market surveillance systems, aligning with regulatory obligations and industry developments.
• Define and secure product roadmaps and budgets, communicating vision to senior leadership.
• Collaborate with senior Compliance, Risk, Technology, Business and Engineering teams to gather requirements, prioritise features, and drive implementation.
• Set performance indicators for surveillance effectiveness, present findings at board and governing forums.
• Contribute to wider business product strategy beyond own product line and business unit.

Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrable experience designing, delivering, or governing trade surveillance for FX or closely related asset classes.
• Strong background in market abuse and misconduct surveillance alert requirements, including end‑to‑end logic definition.
• Proven knowledge of global market abuse regulatory typologies, especially in FX markets.
• Good knowledge of regulatory requirements governing FX trading (e.g., MAR, MiFID II, FX Global Code).
• Experience operating in a regulated environment with exposure to regulatory exams, audits, or supervisory reviews.
• Familiarity with data analytics tools, SQL, and preferably machine learning concepts.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Prior FX trading experience desirable but not required.

Career Stage

Director

Benefits

LSEG offers healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

Equal Opportunities Employer

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on any basis protected under applicable law and we can accommodate religious practices and disability needs.

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