About the role

PwC is strengthening its capabilities in Financial Services Market Abuse & Surveillance, in response to demand for trade and communications surveillance implementation and optimisation expertise.

Our UK Financial Crime team works with clients to investigate and remediate issues, transform financial crime functions and prepare for, and respond to, regulation and regulatory scrutiny. Our team comprises financial services industry, regulatory, policy and technology expertise. This expertise allows us to provide responsive and robust investigations driven by analytics, remediation built around technologies to improve efficiency and a data-driven technology responses to regulation and regulation enforcement.

We are looking for an experienced manager with expertise in the domain of market abuse and surveillance. Specifically, we are seeking an individual with hands on experience working with trade and order transactional data, familiarity with the implementation of surveillance vendor technology, knowledge of MAR and MiFID II.

You’ll bring advanced analytical skills, a keen interest in technology, and the leadership needed to shape our growing market abuse and surveillance offering.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex data challenges, working directly with clients, and managing teams.

We have ambitious plans and are looking for individuals who can expand our data and technology capabilities while strengthening our surveillance services.

What your days will look like

• Vendor evaluations and support for surveillance strategic roadmaps

• Market abuse surveillance implementation and calibration (e.g. detection scenarios, instance identification, parameter setting and tuning)

• Data driven surveillance effectiveness review and optimisation

• Reviewing end-to-end data and process flow supporting surveillance implementations

• Holistic surveillance approach and advice across, voice, eComms, trades and orders

• Assistance in responding to regulatory enquiries

• Supporting the scoping and delivery of complex data driven surveillance engagements including surveillance solution implementation

• Deployment of advanced analytical techniques to risk score alerts and reduce volumes of trade surveillance false positive populations

• Actively contributing on client-facing project work, being self-starting and motivated to produce the required high standard of deliverables

• Supporting the development of Financial Crime propositions and delivery methodologies

• Input to the development of the technical architecture behind our surveillance offerings

• Building and maintaining relationships both internally within the PwC network and externally with clients

• Supporting sales through work on bids, proposal responses and developing opportunities

The role is for you if

• You have an understanding of the relevant Market Abuse regulations in the UK, US, and ideally in other jurisdictions

• You have hands-on experience implementing or optimising trade surveillance tech (e.g. Trading Hub MAST, Smarts, Scila, Actimize, KX)
• You have hands-on experience implementing or optimising communications surveillance tech (e.g. Shield, Behavox, Global Relay, Smarsh, other LLM technology)

• You are proficient in data analytics tools and techniques (e.g. Python, PySpark, vector-based methods)

• You have experience working with various data storage and processing engines (row, column, key-value)

• You have experience of analysis and sourcing data using relational, and NoSQL sources

• You have experience in data visualisation using tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, D3, or Bokeh.

• You are able to clearly articulate technical approaches and concepts to clients and non-technical audiences

• You have a track record of data and systems implementation project delivery and project teams including ability to meet deadlines, overcome challenges, manage stakeholder expectations and produce project deliverables

What you’ll receive from us:

No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions.

We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.