The position is accountable for contributing to the market integrity through the provision of trade surveillance, detection, and referral of violations of UMIR market rules and policies.
Key Responsibilities: - Conduct trade surveillance of cross-assets trading activity into alleged UMIR or Canadian Securities law violations, compiling relevant evidence and conducting trading analysis
- Monitor trading activity to ensure compliance with Universal Market Integrity Rules (UMIR) using trade surveillance systems as well as analysis of historical activity.
- Analyze trading patterns to identify breaches of the trading rules, including illegal insider trading.
- Assist in developing new detection tools and responding to evolving trading patterns and exchange facilities.
- Stay up to date on industry trends through education sessions and industry seminars
- Engage teams across functional areas, most notably market policy, analytics, trade review/analysis and other surveillance product mixes.
- Develop and maintain cooperative relationships with other regulatory and investigative departments
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the Department in meeting its objectives and long-term strategies
- Provide coverage and assist other T+1 surveillance teams (Crypto, Equity, etc.)
- Perform deep analysis into reference data. Activities include but are not limited to gap analysis, discrepancy identification, pattern identification, and categorization verification
Education/Experience: - Post-secondary degree or diploma in combination with lengthy industry experience
- At least 2-3 years of trading, compliance, supervision experience or in a technology support role in a trading environment
- Completion of the Canadian Securities, Trader Training and Derivatives Fundamentals courses
- Completion of (or enrolment in) the Chartered Financial Analyst ("CFA") designation an asset
- Bilingual French/English is mandatory
Key Skills and Competencies: - Deep understanding of Derivatives and its trading practices
- Knowledge of market regulation trading rules and operations
- Knowledge of trading systems and Canadian market structure
- Must have confidence and experience working with large data sets, using business tools
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent organizational and analytical skills
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Experience with crypto-assets trading and/or regulation would be an asset
- Exposure to programing (such as Python, Jupyter notebooks, SQL or others) would be an asset
What we offer:- Competitive base salary in alignment with market
- Performance based bonus *
- Hybrid work environment
- Employer paid Health Benefits and Spending Account that offer flexibility to meet your individual or family needs as of day one
- Defined Contribution Pension Plan with company matching that starts on your first day of employment *
- Paid flex days and sick days *
- Vacation days
- Maternity Leave Of Absence/Paternity Leave Of Absence top up *
- Paid continuous learning and continuing development including designations
*Asterisked offerings are not applicable to contracts
OurRecruitment Process:- This posting reflects an active vacancy on our team
- We use automated (AI) tools toassistwith candidate sourcing and communications. Applications are reviewed by our hiring team and hiring decisions are made by people.
- This role has a hiring range of $85,000 - $95,000 with the placement and offered salary being based on knowledge, skills, education/training and experience, as well as external market conditions and internal equity.
While we appreciate receiving applications, only those applicants who closely meet the position requirements will be contacted. #LI-HYBRID#Hiring
