About the position
We are looking for a Surveillance Analyst to join Jane Street’s London Legal and Compliance team. This role is an opportunity to gain exposure to various aspects of global trading and international regulations.
You will closely monitor Jane Street’s trading activity to detect any potentially manipulative or problematic behaviours. Our regulatory landscape is complex and evolving, and you will ensure we remain in compliance by investigating any potential issues and documenting findings as appropriate.
As our firm continues to grow, you’ll work closely with our broader Legal and Compliance team (along with Trading, Operations and others) to ensure that we maintain a deep commitment to regulatory protocol and continue to meet our high standards across the firm.
Additional responsibilities of the role will include:
- Reviewing and managing surveillance alerts
- Liaising with front office Trading and Technology staff in relation to surveillance alerts
- Maintaining and reviewing surveillance alert parameters
- Contributing to the design and development of surveillance systems
- Analysing data and creating management information in relation to surveillance alerts
- Contributing to and maintaining Jane Street policies and procedures in relation to compliance and surveillance
- Developing improvements to the efficiency of the Surveillance team’s processes
About you
- Have an undergraduate degree; 1-5 years of compliance and/or surveillance experience in financial services is preferred
- Proactive, curious, organised and detail-oriented
- Able to manage competing priorities in a challenging and fast-paced environment
- Have excellent people and communication skills; you are comfortable interacting with members of several different teams across the firm
- Willing to learn from mistakes and accept constructive criticism
- Can easily navigate Excel and love to find better ways to process data
- Understanding Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and MiFID II is preferred
- Having experience with SQL is a plus
- Fluent in English
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What We Do
Jane Street works differently. As a liquidity provider and market maker, we trade on more than 200 trading venues across 45 countries and help form the backbone of global markets. Our approach is rooted in technology and rigorous quantitative analysis, but our success is driven by our people. Our bright, beautiful offices in the heart of New York, London, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam are open and buzzing with conversation. We come from many backgrounds and encourage travel between offices to share perspectives. Some of our best ideas come from bumping into a visiting colleague at the office coffee bar. Markets move fast. Staying competitive as we’ve grown has required constant invention—of new trading strategies, technology, and processes. We’ve found this is easier when you hire humble, kind people. They tend to help each other, and prioritize teamwork over titles. We invest heavily in teaching and training. There’s a library and a classroom in every office, because deepening your understanding of something is considered real work. Guest lectures, classes, and conferences round out the intellectual exchanges that happen every day. People grow into long careers at Jane Street because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test. More than twenty years after our founding, it still feels like we’re just getting started.
