Associate Director - Surveillance
Job Description
Compliance Surveillance Calibration, London, Banking, Contract
Compliance Surveillance Calibration Specialist(Contract)
OverviewWe are partnering witha leading global financial institution to hire a SurveillanceCalibration Specialist to join their Compliance function. This is ahighly technical role focused on optimising trade surveillance models,improving alert quality, and enhancing detection frameworks through data-ledcalibration and validation. Key Responsibilities
- Perform calibration and re-calibration of trade surveillance scenarios, adjusting thresholds and parameters to improve alert effectiveness
- Conduct validation and effectiveness reviews of surveillance models, ensuring adequate regulatory and risk coverage
- Analyse alert outputs to identify opportunities for false positive reduction and optimisation
- Apply quantitative and statistical techniques to enhance surveillance performance
- Partner with stakeholders across Compliance, Surveillance, and Technology to implement improvements
- Develop and maintain metrics, dashboards and reporting to track model performance and risk outcomes
- Contribute to the ongoing development of surveillance calibration and validation frameworks
- Hands-on experience with trade surveillance systems (e.g. SMARTS or equivalent)
- Strong background in surveillance calibration, optimisation, or model validation
- Demonstrated experience in:
- Adjusting thresholds and surveillance parameters
- Performing backtesting / scenario testing
- Reducing false positives and improving alert quality
- Ability to clearly articulate quantitative outcomes (e.g. improvements in efficiency or detection rates)
- Experience within financial services (investment banking or similar institutional environments)
- Experience within tier-1 investment banks or large global financial institutions
- Exposure to market abuse surveillance frameworks
- Strong understanding of trade lifecycle and regulatory expectations
- Experience working in global or cross-regional teams
- Analytical mindset with strong data interpretation skills
- Ability to work with large datasets and complex surveillance outputs
- Strong stakeholder engagement across technical and non-technical teams
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced, project-driven environment #4802146
Required Experience
Preferred Background
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