Description
The FX Market Surveillance Product Director will be responsible for the end-to-end ownership, design, and evolution of FX trade surveillance across Spot, Forward, Swap, NDF, Options, and emerging FX-linked products.
The role will entail defining, delivering, and continuously improving surveillance solutions that ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal risk standards across our FX Trading Platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
- Owns product strategy, design, and business and functional requirements for the FX market surveillance systems, ensuring alignment with relevant regulatory obligations and industry developments.
- Implements and helps define the vision and devising business plans for budgetary approval and product roadmaps, communicating their vision to different teams and senior leadership.
- Collaborates with senior Compliance, Risk, Technology, Business and Engineering teams to gather requirements, prioritise features and implement.
- Define key performance indicators for surveillance effectiveness and emerging trends. Present at relevant Board meetings and other governing forums.
- Works beyond own product line/business unit by developing knowledge and contributing to wider business product strategy, identifying opportunities for growth or efficiency.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Demonstrable experience designing, delivering, or governing trade surveillance for FX or closely related asset classes.
- Strong background in providing market abuse and misconduct surveillance alert requirements, including end-to-end logic definition.
- Proven knowledge of global market abuse regulatory typologies, especially in FX markets.
- Good knowledge of global regulatory requirements governing FX trading (e.g., MAR, MiFID II, FX Global Code).
- Experience operating in a regulated environment with direct exposure to regulatory exams, audits, or supervisory reviews.
- Familiarity with data analytics tools, SQL, and ideally machine learning concepts.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Previous FX trading experience desirable but not essential.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.