Trade Surveillance - Analyst

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Chicago, IL, USA
In-Office
70K-90K Annually
Junior
Financial Services
The Role
Conduct account activity and trading reviews to identify suspicious patterns and ensure compliance with AML, sanctions, securities, and financial regulations. Analyze data and trends, prepare regulatory filings, advise management, and improve surveillance processes. The role requires strong financial-market knowledge, analytical skills, attention to detail, communication abilities, and comfort with technology.
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About the Company

 

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBKR), a member of the S&P 500, is a global financial services company headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, with offices in over 15 countries. Through its affiliates, Interactive Brokers provides automated trade execution and custody of securities, commodities, foreign exchange, and prediction markets on over 170 markets in numerous countries and currencies.

 

For more than four decades, Interactive Brokers has focused on technology, automation, and innovation to provide clients worldwide with a sophisticated, unified platform to manage their investment portfolios. We serve individual investors, hedge funds, proprietary trading groups, financial advisors, and introducing brokers.

 

Our culture is driven by problem-solving, efficiency, and continuous improvement. We look for individuals who are intellectually curious, collaborative, and motivated to contribute to technology that helps simplify and enhance access to global financial markets. Interactive Brokers has consistently been recognized as a top broker by respected industry sources including Barron’s, Investopedia, Stockbrokers.com, and others.

 

This is a hybrid role (4 days in the office/ 1 day remote).

Interactive Brokers seeks Trade Surveillance Analysts for its Chicago, Illinois, office. This entry-level position has excellent growth potential for highly motivated and exceptional performers. Analysts will report to a Compliance Manager and help ensure the firm complies with the Bank Secrecy Act, USA PATRIOT Act, anti-terrorist financing, sanctions, industry anti-money laundering, and securities laws and regulations.

Responsibilities
  • Conducting account activity reviews, including trading, deposit, withdrawal, and public domain activity, to determine if the activity aligns with IBKR policy.
  • Advising management by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends. 
  • Preparing regulatory filings.
  • Contribute to streamlining current processes and identifying areas for improvement.
  • Review trading data for suspicious activity or patterns of unusual trading.

The ideal candidate will have 1-3 years of regulatory compliance experience working for an exchange, a regulatory organization, a broker-dealer (BD), a futures commission merchant (FCM) or a similar organization. Alternatively, experience in internal audit, legal, accounting, or other control functions of a financial services firm or regulator would be beneficial. Absent direct industry experience, we will also consider applicants with excellent bachelor-level educational credentials, some background in finance, economics, data analytics, or similar areas, and strong analytical and quantitative skills.

Qualifications, Skills, Attributes: 
  • Strong product knowledge of equity or exchange-traded derivative markets, or, preferably, both
  • High degree of comfort and fluency with computers and technology, and understanding of how technology is applied to business and regulatory problems
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Detail-oriented with outstanding organizational and project management skills
  • Ability to work both independently as well as in a small team environment, and to multitask with minimal supervision
  • ACAMS, CFE, CFCS, Series 7, or other FINRA licenses or certifications are a plus

To be successful in this position, you will have the following:

  • Self-motivated and able to handle tasks with minimal supervision.
  • Superb analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication (Verbal and written) skills.
  • Outstanding organizational and time management skills.

Company Benefits:

  • Competitive salary, annual performance-based bonus, and stock grant awards
  • 401(k) retirement plan with competitive company match
  • Excellent health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, and vision benefits. 100% employer-paid medical premiums, with generous employer contributions to dental & vision plans as well.
  • Wellness screening and assessments, health coaches, and counseling services through an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Generous paid parental leave (up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for eligible employees)
  • Company-paid basic life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D), and short- and long-term disability coverage
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, and Commuter FSAs)
  • Quarterly fitness stipend to offset costs associated with traditional gym and fitness memberships or fees
  • Education reimbursement and professional development opportunities
  • Legal services, telehealth access, and voluntary insurance options
  • Backup child and adult care support through Care.com
  • Daily lunch allowance and fully stocked kitchen with healthy breakfast and snack options

 


Skills Required

  • Bachelor-level educational credentials, preferably with a background in finance, economics, data analytics, or a similar field
  • Strong product knowledge of equity or exchange-traded derivative markets
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Comfort and fluency with computers and technology
  • Detail-oriented with strong organizational and project management skills
  • Ability to work independently and in a small team environment
  • Ability to multitask with minimal supervision
  • One to three years of regulatory compliance experience, or relevant experience in internal audit, legal, accounting, or financial-services control functions
  • ACAMS, CFE, CFCS, Series 7, or another FINRA license or certification

Interactive Brokers Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Interactive Brokers and has not been reviewed or approved by Interactive Brokers.

  • Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with company-covered premiums available in some plans, plus dental and vision. Wellness incentives and accessible care benefits contribute to the perceived value of the package.
  • Strong & Reliable Incentives — Total compensation commonly includes discretionary bonuses and stock grants that enhance earnings. These elements are frequently cited as meaningful parts of overall pay.
  • Pay Growth & Progression — Annual pay increases are mentioned across multiple roles. This supports a perception of steady early-stage progression.

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The Company
HQ: Greenwich, CT
2,441 Employees

What We Do

Rated #1 Best Online Broker in 2022 for 5 consecutive years by Barron's. Interactive Brokers Group (Nasdaq: IBKR) and its predecessor companies have been building trading technology for over 44 years. Interactive Brokers Group’s consolidated equity capital exceeds $10 billion. Throughout its history, the company’s mission has remained unchanged: Create technology to provide liquidity on better terms. Compete on price, speed, size, diversity of global products and advanced trading tools. Interactive Brokers LLC is a member of NYSE, FINRA, SIPC. For more information, visit: ibkr.com

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