Startups

Associate - Trade Surveillance

Clear Street · New York, NY · On-site

← All jobs
About Clear Street

Speed, Transparency and Scale for Sophisticated Investors.™.

About the role

The Compliance Team seeks a detail-oriented and motivated Surveillance Associate to be responsible for conducting daily trade surveillance reviews for the Firm’s active trader client base. This role focuses on detecting, reviewing and escalating potential market manipulation and abusive trading activity using Nasdaq Trade Surveillance (NTS) with primary coverage of equities and listed options.

What they're looking for

  • 3-5 years of hands-on experience using NTS in a broker-dealer or exchange environment
  • Demonstrated experience identifying and investigating layering, spoofing, momentum ignition, coordinated trading, and other market manipulation alerts
  • Strong understanding of equities and listed options markets, including order types, routing, execution mechanics and common trading strategies
  • Ability to assess trading intent and distinguish legitimate strategies from abusive conduct
  • Experience supporting active retail trading environments
  • Strong analytical, investigative and documentation skills
More about this role

Clear Street is modernizing the brokerage ecosystem. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets.

We started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today’s complex, global market. Clear Street’s proprietary prime brokerage platform adds significant efficiency to the market, while focusing on minimizing risk, redundancy, and cost for clients. Our goal is to create a single source-of-truth platform for every asset class, in every country, and in any currency.

By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we’re building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets.

The Compliance Team seeks a detail-oriented and motivated Surveillance Associate to be responsible for conducting daily trade surveillance reviews for the Firm’s active trader client base. This role focuses on detecting, reviewing and escalating potential market manipulation and abusive trading activity using Nasdaq Trade Surveillance (NTS) with primary coverage of equities and listed options. The position requires strong...

Read the full posting on Clear Street's site ↗

Compliance

Build your edge while you search

Free tools for founders and investors, plus VC Unfiltered, our take on startups, venture and the people who build them.