Trade Surveillance Analyst

Interactive Brokers is looking to hire a Compliance Analyst at the Chicago Office. This is a position with excellent growth potential for highly motivated and exceptional performers. Analysts will report to a Compliance Manager and will assist with ensuring the firm complies with Bank Secrecy Act, USA PATRIOT Act, anti-terrorist financing, sanctions, industry AML, and securities laws and regulations.

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Conducting reviews of account activity, including trading activity, deposit and withdrawal activity, and public domain activity, to determine if activity is in line with IBKR policy
• Advising management by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends. 
• Preparing regulatory filings
• Contribute to streamlining current processes and identifying areas for improvement
• Review trading data for suspicious activity or patterns of unusual trading

The ideal candidate will have 2-5 years regulatory compliance experience working for an exchange, a regulatory organization, a Broker Dealer (BD), a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) or similar organization. Alternatively, experience in internal audit, legal, accounting or other control function of a financial services firm or regulator would be beneficial. In the absence of direct industry experience, we will also consider applicants with excellent Bachelor’s-level educational credentials who have some background in law, accounting, data analytics or similar areas with strong analytical and quantitative skills.

• High degree of comfort and fluency with computers and technology and understanding of how technology is applied to business and regulatory problems.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Detail-oriented with outstanding organizational and project management skills
• Ability to work both independently as well as in a small-team environment, and to multi-task with minimal supervision
• ACAMS, CFE, CFCS, Series 7, or other FINRA licenses or certifications a plus
• Capital Markets