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Senior Compliance Officer – Surveillance

IMC Trading
🇭🇰Hong Kong🇦🇺SydneySeniorFull-timePosted August 9, 2026

About the Role

IMC's APAC Compliance team manages regulatory risks of trading activities across multiple jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region. As Senior Surveillance Lead, you will set the strategic direction for APAC trade surveillance while remaining hands-on across the full scope of day-to-day surveillance work. You will own the surveillance programme across IMC's APAC trading entities—covering equities, derivatives, and commodities across multiple markets—and lead a team of surveillance professionals with the opportunity to grow that team as the business scales.

  • Setting strategic roadmap for APAC trade surveillance with long-term coverage priorities
  • Investigating and resolving trade surveillance alerts across market abuse typologies
  • Managing alert queues and ensuring timely investigation and closure
  • Owning responses to regulatory and exchange inquiries
  • Designing and calibrating surveillance alert parameters as new markets come online
  • Leading and developing a team of surveillance professionals

Requirements

  • Significant experience in trade surveillance within financial services, with a background at a proprietary trading firm, market maker, or HFT/systematic firm preferred
  • Demonstrated ability to lead a surveillance function or team, with experience managing, mentoring, or developing junior surveillance staff
  • Solid understanding of core market abuse typologies (spoofing, layering, ramping, wash trading, insider trading)
  • Knowledge of CSRC program trading rules, SFC Code of Conduct, or ASIC Market Integrity Rules
  • Experience with at least one surveillance platform (OneTick, SMARTS, Nice Actimize, or equivalent)
  • Experience designing or calibrating surveillance alerts from scratch
  • Ability to work with trading data using Python, SQL, or equivalent tools
  • APAC markets experience across any combination of Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Australia, China, or Singapore
  • Experience with equities surveillance, derivatives or commodities is preferred
  • Commercial awareness: an understanding of trading strategies and market microstructure
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; regulatory inquiry responses require clear, precise writing