2027 - Internship, Surveillance

The role

As a Surveillance Intern, you will join the Compliance department to monitor trading activity across global markets. You will work with Compliance Advisory, Risk, Trading and Technology teams to identify potential market abuse and support regulatory obligations.

What you will do

• Reviewing trade surveillance alerts and helping investigate unusual or potentially suspicious trading activity.
• Developing an understanding of market-abuse typologies, including spoofing, layering and insider dealing.
• Analysing trading activity across multiple asset classes, markets and jurisdictions.
• Helping integrate new markets, products, and data sources into the surveillance framework.
• Working with technology and data teams to improve monitoring tools and surveillance processes.
• Analysing order and trade data to identify patterns that may indicate suspicious or disorderly trading.
• Analysis of flagged electronic or voice communications.
• Testing and calibration of surveillance alerts, thresholds and detection logic.
• Building data-analysis or automation tools to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of surveillance reviews.
• Working with Compliance, Trading, Risk and Technology colleagues to understand trading behaviour and resolve data or surveillance issues.

Required qualifications

• Penultimate or final year students pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in a STEM discipline
• On track for a 2:1 or above
• Interest in financial markets and electronic trading
• Basic knowledge of different asset classes such as equities, derivatives, fixed income and cryptocurrencies
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with Python or SQL
• Familiarity with data analysis, automation or the use of emerging coding and AI-assisted programming applications
• Good communication skills
• Writing skills

Benefits

• Initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance

Before you apply

• Submit your application online
• Shortlisted candidates will take part in interviews, either on-site or via Microsoft Teams

About the company

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager operating across liquid asset classes and markets worldwide. They bring together data, research, technology and trading expertise to develop and run systematic strategies.