Our client is a unique proprietary trading firm specialising in market making, volatility trading and arbitrage across major global exchanges. Leveraging cutting-edge, in-house developed strategies, they identify market opportunities while providing liquidity and enhancing market efficiency.
They are looking for a Trading Surveillance Analyst to join their compliance team. This role focuses on monitoring and surveillance. You will work closely with the wider compliance team and business stakeholders in a high-performance trading environment, across both traditional finance (such as stocks and derivatives) and digital assets. It suits someone who wants broad exposure to the compliance function. The role is based in the Amsterdam office.
They offer a dynamic work environment where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company.
Responsibilities
- Perform ongoing monitoring and surveillance of trading activity to identify, assess and escalate potential compliance risks.
- Investigate and document alerts generated by surveillance systems, and help refine and calibrate surveillance rules and thresholds.
- Build out and improve the surveillance stack, combining third-party tools with in-house developed systems.
- Support the wider compliance team on day-to-day tasks, including regulatory requests, audits, inspections and internal reviews.
- Help prepare compliance reporting and management information.
Requirements
- A university degree, preferably in law, finance, economics or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in trading surveillance, compliance, regulatory or a related quantitative role.
- Comfortable working with large volumes of trading and system data.
- Proficient with MS Office, in particular Excel. Basic SQL and/or Python for data analysis is a plus, as is a willingness to learn.
- Demonstrable affinity with financial markets and a genuine interest in how trading and market structure work.
- Strong analytical skills with an eye for detail.
- A proactive, curious mindset and a willingness to take ownership.
- Comfortable working in a technology-driven trading environment. An interest in AI and new technology is a strong plus.
- Fluent in English. Dutch is a plus but not required.
