Associate - Trade Surveillance

The role

The Surveillance Associate conducts daily trade surveillance reviews for the Firm's active trader client base. This role focuses on detecting, reviewing and escalating potential market manipulation and abusive trading activity using Nasdaq Trade Surveillance.

What you will do

• Review order lifecycle data to assess intent and impact
• Analyze activity to identify potential manipulation and abusive practices
• Perform cross-product surveillance across equities and listed options
• Independently review and disposition NTS alerts through trade reconstruction, order book analysis and market context review
• Document findings clearly and concisely in surveillance case management systems
• Escalate potential to senior surveillance personnel with clear supporting analysis
• Assist in preparing case summaries for month Trade Surveillance Committee meetings
• Provide feedback to senior team members on alert performance, false positives and recurring patterns observed in NTS
• Identify surveillance caps or emerging risks associated with new products, order types or customer trading behavior

Required qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience using NTS in a broker-dealer or exchange environment
• Demonstrated experience identifying and investigating layering, spoofing, momentum ignition, coordinated trading, and other market manipulation alerts
• Strong understanding of equities and listed options markets, including order types, routing, execution mechanics and common trading strategies
• Ability to assess trading intent and distinguish legitimate strategies from abusive conduct
• Experience supporting active retail trading environments
• Strong analytical, investigative and documentation skills

Benefits

• company equity
• 401k matching
• gender neutral parental leave
• full medical, dental and vision insurance
• lunch stipends
• fully stocked kitchens
• happy hours

About the company

Clear Street’s mission is to give every sophisticated investor access to every asset, in every market, through a unified platform built for speed, transparency and scale. Their single, cloud-native, end-to-end capital markets platform powers investor growth today and is transforming how they can interact with markets tomorrow.