Senior Compliance Analyst (Surveillance)

Are you looking for a team where you can make a real difference and contribute directly? Do you want to be surrounded by people who want to succeed in everything they do? Do you enjoy working with people you can laugh and work hard with? Do you think that laws and regulations should be business enablers and stimulators? Do you feel energized when challenged to enter unchartered territories? Then you could be just the one we’re looking for!

Who we are:

Optiver is a tech-driven trading firm and leading global market maker. As one of the oldest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe. Our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilising force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates.

Optiver Chicago’s culture parallels the energetic city we’re immersed in. Home to the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago has established itself as the trading capital of the US. Active on leading US exchanges, Optiver’s Chicago office trades a wide range of products from listed derivatives to cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign exchange.

What you’ll do:

We aim to hire smart people so they can tell us what best to do. Your job within the Compliance Department at Optiver Europe is what you will make of it, but your tasks and responsibilities will at least include:

• Review and follow up on market abuse trade surveillance alerts;
• Review and follow up on electronic communication surveillance alerts;
• Continuously contribute to the execution and improvement of the Compliance monitoring and surveillance framework;
• Analysing large sets of market and trade data to detect and evaluate unwanted trading patterns, and assess potential risks;
• Combining technology with a good understanding of the regulatory framework to ensure our control framework is up to standard and can continuously improve;
• Designing and building controls to prevent and detect unwanted behaviour;
• Test and review existing tools, systems and controls;
• Advising on and Supporting the implementation process of compliance requirements;
• Propose and implement ways to improve compliance processes;
• Identify strategic deficiencies as well as major improvements on quality and effectiveness of our overall surveillance framework and push these to be closed respectively implemented to mitigate the firm’s biggest risks and enabling growth;
• Assessing the business risks for our trading operations in a thorough, sensible and compliant manner with integrity;
• Analysing and assessing the strategic risks and opportunities arising from the relevant developments in the market as well as regulatory framework in an accurate but pragmatic manner to enable business to grow in a controlled environment;
• Build bridges with other functions for solid communication lines to improve collaboration and bring Optiver to the next level;

Who you are:

• Academic degree;
• 3+ years of relevant working experience, including market abuse trade surveillance;
• A keen interest in financial markets, trading and technology;
• Strong sense of integrity and the ability to balance business interests with the need to exercise independent judgment
• A strong affinity for technology and data handling;
• Experience with Query Languages (SQL, Python) recommended;
• An analytical and investigative mind with a good eye for detail;
• A pro-active, assertive and results-driven personality;
• A strong focus, especially when dealing with reoccurring tasks;
• Experience working at or with exchanges and regulators would be a big plus;

What you’ll get:

• Work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.
• Performance based bonus structure that is unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool fostering a truly collaborative environment to work in.
• Ownership over initiatives that directly solve business problems.  

Alongside this you will get great other benefits such as 25 paid vacation days and market holidays, fully paid commuting expenses and health insurance, daily breakfast and lunch, training opportunities, 401(k) match up to 50% and charitable match opportunities, regular social events and clubs, and many more.