Bitvavo
Senior Trade Surveillance Officer
Headquarters. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will own the trade surveillance program end to end. This includes conducting market abuse risk assessments, designing detection coverage, and investigating suspicious orders and transactions.
What you will do
- Own the market abuse risk assessment across products, venues, client types, trading strategies and market structure
- Improve the trade surveillance framework covering insider dealing, unlawful disclosure, and market manipulation
- Assess and extend surveillance coverage against new products, services, trading venues and market structure changes
- Manage the quality and completeness of order, trade, reference and communications data
- Monitor feed latency and alert generation latency
- Triage alerts, investigate suspicious orders and transactions, and decide on and file STORs
- Drive cross functional projects like surveillance system tuning and transaction reporting quality reviews
- Own maintenance of the trade surveillance policy, insider list, personal account dealing controls, alert logic, and management information
- Partner with Trading, Legal, Risk, and Product to deliver strategic compliance outcomes
Required qualifications
- Hands-on experience running, tuning and calibrating trade surveillance systems
- Experience leading market abuse investigations from alert to closure, including STOR decision-making
- 6+ years of relevant compliance/surveillance/regulatory experience
- Strong focus on market abuse in a MiFID II or MICAR regulated company
- Comfortable working directly with order book, trade and communications data
- Deep, practical knowledge of MAR, MiFID II/MiFIR, and related technical standards
- Comfortable engaging directly with regulators and senior stakeholders
- Excellent written communication skills
Nice to have
- SQL or Python
- Some knowledge of MiCAR
About the company
Bitvavo launched its digital assets trading platform in 2018 to bridge the gap between traditional currencies and digital assets. It is the market leader in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe.