About Tradeweb
Tradeweb is a global leader in electronic trading for rates, credit, equities, and money markets. As financial markets become increasingly interconnected, our technology enables efficient, multi-asset trading on a global scale. We serve more than 3,000 clients in more than 85 countries, including many of the world’s largest banks, asset managers, hedge funds, insurers, corporations, and wealth managers.
Creative collaboration and sharp client focus have helped fuel our organic growth. We facilitated average daily trading volume (ADV) of more than $2.2 trillion over the past four fiscal quarters, topping $2.5 trillion in ADV for the first quarter of 2025.
Since our IPO in 2019, Tradeweb has completed four acquisitions and doubled our revenues – and 2024 was our 25th consecutive year of record revenues.
Tradeweb is a great place to work, recognized in 2024 by Forbes as one of America’s Best Companies (2024) and by U.S. News & World Report as one of the Best Financial Services Companies to Work For.
Tradeweb Markets LLC ("Tradeweb") is proud to be an EEO Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled/Affirmative Action Employer.
Mission: Move first and never stop. Collaborate with clients to create and build solutions that drive efficiency, connectivity, and transparency in electronic trading.
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About the role
This role sits at the centre of Tradeweb’s surveillance operating model, bridging day-to-day surveillance operations with control oversight and continuous improvement. While maintaining responsibility for alert review and case management, the position places strong emphasis on quality assurance, optimisation of the alert lifecycle, and ensuring effective surveillance coverage across new and evolving business activities.
Working closely with the Global Head of Surveillance and stakeholders across Compliance, Risk, Technology, and the business, the successful candidate will play a key role in strengthening control effectiveness, enhancing data-driven decision-making, and supporting the scalability of the surveillance framework. This is a hybrid VP role combining operational oversight, governance, and advisory responsibilities, distinct from purely operational roles and from dedicated scenario design, analytics and AI-focused positions.
This role offers a strong opportunity for a highly capable individual to influence and drive the evolution of Tradeweb’s surveillance programme. Working in partnership with senior stakeholders, you will help establish the standards, tools, and strategic direction that ensure Tradeweb continues to meet regulatory expectations while supporting the expansion of its global platform.
Key responsibilities
Surveillance & Alert Disposition
- Lead the review and analysis of daily surveillance alerts, ensuring timely escalation and robust case management.
- Act as an escalation point for complex or sensitive alerts and investigations.
- Ensure consistent, high-quality documentation and rationale for alert closures and escalations.
Quality Assurance & Control Oversight
- Own and enhance the surveillance quality assurance framework to ensure consistency, accuracy, and adherence to procedures.
- Set standards for QA reviews across the team and ensure consistency of outputs.
- Perform and oversee QA reviews of closed alerts, identifying trends, gaps, and areas for improvement.
- Establish feedback loops into alert calibration, procedures, and training to improve overall control effectiveness.
Business Integration & Surveillance Coverage
- Lead the integration of new business initiatives, products, and workflows into the surveillance framework.
- Ensure appropriate mapping between risks, controls, and surveillance coverage for new and evolving activities.
- Partner with business, technology, and compliance stakeholders to maintain comprehensive and forward-looking monitoring.
Regulatory Reporting & Engagement
- Oversee the preparation and submission of market abuse notifications to relevant regulatory authorities.
- Engage with regulators, including responses to information requests and supervisory queries.
- Ensure regulatory deliverables are accurate, complete, and aligned with expectations.
Management Information & Data Insights
- Own the production and enhancement of management information (MI) for internal governance, senior management, and board-level reporting.
- Define and monitor key surveillance metrics (e.g. alert volumes, false positives, ageing, QA outcomes).
- Leverage data and dashboards to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
Continuous Improvement & Optimisation
- Drive enhancements to the surveillance alert lifecycle, improving efficiency, effectiveness, and scalability.
- Provide structured feedback into alert design, calibration, and system enhancements.
- Escalate and address issues relating to surveillance effectiveness, ensuring timely remediation and ongoing enhancement.
Required skills:
- Strong knowledge of Fixed Income markets and products, including bonds, repos, credit derivatives, interest rate swaps, and related products.
- Strong understanding of Fixed Income pricing, market structure, liquidity dynamics, and trade execution workflows.
- Awareness of digital assets and blockchain markets, with the ability to assess surveillance implications.
Product and Market Knowledge
- Strong knowledge of Fixed Income markets and products, including bonds, repos, credit derivatives, interest rate swaps, and related products.
- Strong understanding of Fixed Income pricing, market structure, liquidity dynamics, and trade execution workflows.
- Awareness of digital assets and blockchain markets, with the ability to assess surveillance implications.
Trade Surveillance and Market Abuse Expertise
- Significant hands-on experience in Fixed Income trade surveillance, including alert disposition and case management.
- Strong understanding of market abuse typologies, including insider dealing, unlawful disclosure, and market manipulation.
- Good knowledge of UK and EU Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), including regulatory frameworks, guidance, and expectations.
- Experience supporting regulatory notifications and conducting market abuse investigations.
Quality Assurance and Control Skills
- Experience designing or operating QA frameworks within surveillance or compliance functions.
- Ability to assess control effectiveness, identify weaknesses, and implement improvements.
- Strong attention to detail and consistency in reviewing and challenging case outcomes.
Alert Design and Calibration (Advisory)
- Practical experience contributing to the design, tuning, and optimisation of surveillance alerts.
- Ability to provide feedback on alert performance, including false positives and detection gaps.
- Experience working with surveillance systems such as Nasdaq SMARTS; familiarity with KRM22 is advantageous.
Data and Dashboard Analysis
- Experience using Tableau dashboards for data analysis, MI, and regulatory reporting.
- Ability to manipulate and analyse datasets to derive insights and support decision making.
- Capability to enhance or build dashboards and improve data presentation.
- Strong Excel skills, including advanced formulas and data analysis techniques.
AI & Digital Assets Skills
- Strong motivation to develop AI and digital asset knowledge to support emerging Surveillance initiatives.
Personal Skills
- Strong team ethic with the ability to work collaboratively and productively across departments.
- Strong communication and interpersonal abilities, with the capacity to convey technical concepts clearly and succinctly, both verbally and in writing.
- Sound judgment and decision-making skills, with the ability to make evidence-based recommendations and adapt to evolving priorities.
- Self-motivated and proactive, with a strong commitment to continuous learning and effective workload management.
- Ability to prioritize competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
