Surveillance Analyst

Surveillance Analyst | Market Abuse | Market Surveillance | Trade Surveillance

Overview

Company | Capital markets, regulated trading infrastructure

What you’ll be doing | Monitoring live trading activity, investigating market behaviour

Impact | Market integrity, regulatory oversight, market abuse detection

Size | Mid-sized business, specialist and lean

What you’ll use | Market surveillance, FCA rule knowledge, Bloomberg / Refinitiv, equity market structure

Location | London

Hybrid | Hybrid working - 3 days in office

Offer | Salary available on request

Why this is worth a look | Real market exposure, direct regulatory work, broad surveillance remit, close access to senior stakeholders, and the chance to help improve the surveillance tooling rather than just live inside it

The work

If you like being close to the market, this is the kind of seat that gives you a proper view of what’s actually going on.

You’ll be part of a surveillance team inside a regulated trading environment, monitoring live and T+1 activity across listed securities and helping protect the integrity of the market. That means reviewing alerts, spotting unusual behaviour, handling regulatory follow-up, and knowing when something is noise and when it deserves real attention.

You won’t be boxed into a narrow monitoring-only seat either.

You’ll get involved in how the surveillance function actually runs. That includes working on enhancements to the in-house surveillance system, helping test changes, supporting reporting, speaking with external clients, and contributing to investigations, governance, and control work that matters.

If your current seat feels too procedural, this gives you more range.

Three things stand out here:

1️⃣ You’ll work close to the market — not buried in a back-office admin process, but actively supervising trading activity and market behaviour.

2️⃣ You’ll get variety — alerts, investigations, client queries, regulatory documentation, system enhancement work, and broader surveillance support across asset classes.

3️⃣ You’ll be in a business where surveillance is part of the product and the infrastructure — which means your input carries more weight than it does in firms where surveillance is just a control function bolted on at the side.

What you’ll be doing day to day

You’ll spend your time across a mix of live surveillance, regulatory support, and operational control work, including:

• Monitoring client activity across trading platforms in real time and T+1
• Reviewing alerts, identifying potential market abuse risks, and escalating where needed
• Supporting STOR-related work, investigations, and regulatory documentation
• Working with internal teams on surveillance system issues, testing, and enhancements
• Handling queries from clients around surveillance processes and tooling
• Maintaining core control items such as holiday calendars, reference prices, stock status, and trading notices
• Supporting governance work including weekly reporting, quarterly reporting, monitoring programme deliverables, and incident documentation

What you’ll need

This won’t suit someone trying to learn surveillance from scratch. You’ll need to have done this before in a relevant market environment.

The three big things they care about are:

• Market surveillance experience from a bank, broker, exchange, venue, or similarly relevant trading environment
• Strong understanding of FCA and exchange rules, market abuse risk, and the MAR5 risk analysis process
• Good grasp of equities and equity-related products, with the confidence to work across stakeholders and manage work without heavy supervision

Useful background includes experience with Bloomberg, Refinitiv, regulatory reporting, STOR workflows, and handling external client interaction.

Why you might move

A lot of surveillance seats are repetitive. Same alerts. Same process. Same escalation path.

This one gives you more breadth.

You’ll sit in a regulated market setting, work closely with senior surveillance leadership, deal with real external stakeholders, and get exposure to both the control side and the technology side of surveillance. That’s a better platform if you want to sharpen your judgment, not just process tickets.

Interview process

Process | Introductory call with us > shortlist review > client interviews > offer

What next

If you’ve worked in market surveillance and want a seat closer to the market, the regulator, and the underlying surveillance infrastructure, apply and we can talk you through it properly in confidence.