We are looking for an experienced Trade Surveillance professional to strengthen our Compliance function and ensure market integrity through proactive monitoring, investigation, and regulatory compliance.
Key Responsibilities- Monitor trading activities and surveillance alerts to identify potential market abuse, including spoofing, layering, wash trades, front-running, insider trading, and market manipulation.
- Conduct investigations into suspicious trading patterns and prepare detailed case documentation.
- Review and close surveillance alerts generated through internal and external monitoring systems.
- Liaise with Compliance, Risk, Operations, Product, and Technology teams on surveillance matters and escalations.
- Prepare regulatory reports and responses for exchanges, regulators, and other stakeholders, where applicable.
- Perform periodic reviews of surveillance scenarios, thresholds, and monitoring frameworks to enhance effectiveness.
- Analyze trading behavior across spot, derivatives, and options products to identify emerging risks.
- Maintain MIS, dashboards, and surveillance metrics for management reporting.
- Stay updated on regulatory developments, exchange circulars, and industry best practices.
- Support audits, inspections, and compliance reviews related to market surveillance activities.
- Drive automation and process improvement initiatives to strengthen the surveillance framework.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Commerce, Economics, Law, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in Trade Surveillance, Market Surveillance, Compliance Monitoring, or Market Abuse Investigations.
- Prior experience with a Stock Broking firm, Capital Markets organization, Exchange, or Trading Platform is mandatory.
- Strong understanding of securities markets, derivatives, market conduct regulations, and surveillance methodologies.
- Hands-on experience investigating trading alerts and suspicious market activities.
- Familiarity with surveillance tools such as SMARTS, Actimize, Compass or similar monitoring systems is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements, exchange rules, and market abuse monitoring frameworks.
- Excellent analytical, investigative, and report-writing skills.
- Ability to independently manage complex investigations and interact with senior stakeholders.
- Experience in derivatives, futures, options, and leveraged trading products.
- Knowledge of AML, Financial Crime, and Fraud Monitoring frameworks.
- Proficiency in SQL, Excel, data analytics, or surveillance reporting tools.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Commerce, Economics, Law, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in Trade Surveillance, Market Surveillance, Compliance Monitoring, or Market Abuse Investigations
- Prior experience with a Stock Broking firm, Capital Markets organization, Exchange, or Trading Platform
- Strong understanding of securities markets, derivatives, market conduct regulations, and surveillance methodologies
- Hands-on experience investigating trading alerts and suspicious market activities
- Strong analytical, investigative, and report-writing skills
- Ability to independently manage complex investigations and interact with senior stakeholders
- Familiarity with surveillance tools such as SMARTS, Actimize, Compass or similar monitoring systems
- Experience in derivatives, futures, options, and leveraged trading products
- Knowledge of AML, Financial Crime, and Fraud Monitoring frameworks
- Proficiency in SQL, Excel, data analytics, or surveillance reporting tools
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
What We Do
Delta Exchange is a high-performance digital asset derivatives exchange. Founded in 2018, Delta is backed by marquee investors like Aave, Kyber Network, SinoGlobal Capital, QCP, LuneX, Gumi Cryptos, BR Capital, CoinFund and more. Delta offers Futures, Perpetuals & Options trading across Bitcoin and leading Altcoins with up to 100x leverage. Delta also has a suite of innovative product offering like Interest Rate Swaps, Calendar Spreads, Turbo Options and Robo Trading Strategies. Our mission is to accelerate the advancement of the cryptocurrency financial system by building a highly-liquid and trusted derivatives trading platform developed to serve both retail and institutional traders. With a powerful matching engine, an intuitive interface, advanced order types and lightning-fast APIs, Delta provides access to an institutional-grade trading platform built for the digital asset markets.
