Surveillance & Market Abuse Technology- Financial Crime-Senior Manager

About our team

PwC is strengthening its capabilities in Financial Services Market Abuse & Surveillance in response to demand for trade surveillance technology expertise.

Our UK Financial Crime team works with clients to investigate and remediate issues transform financial crime functions and prepare for and respond to regulation and regulatory scrutiny. Our team comprises financial services industry regulatory policy and technology expertise. This expertise allows us to provide responsive and robust investigations driven by analytics remediation built around technologies to improve efficiency and a data-driven technology responses to regulation and regulation enforcement.

Who we are looking for:

We are looking for a Senior Managerwith deep expertise in market abuse and surveillance and strong hands-on experience with trade and order data. Youll be comfortable working across multiple surveillance vendor technologies and understand the regulatory landscape including MAR MiFID II.

Youll bring advanced analytical skills a keen interest in technology and the leadership needed to shape our growing market abuse and surveillance offering.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex data challenges working directly with clients and helping build a team and capability from the ground up.

We have ambitious plans and are looking for individuals who can expand our data and technology capabilities while strengthening our surveillance services.

We support our clients with a range of services:

• Vendor evaluations and support for surveillance strategic roadmaps

• Market abuse surveillance implementation and calibration (e.g. detection scenarios instance identification parameter setting and tuning)

• Data driven surveillance effectiveness review and optimisation

• Reviewing end-to-end data and process flow supporting surveillance implementations

• Holistic surveillance approach and advice across voice eComms trades and orders

• Assistance in responding to regulatory enquiries

Your main responsibilities:

• Leading the delivery of complex data-driven surveillance projects managing scope budgets risks and outcomes

• Leading on deployment of advanced analytical techniques to risk score alerts and reduce volumes of trade surveillance false positive populations

• Producing high-quality client deliverables and contribute actively to project teams

• Developing and owning Financial Crime propositions and delivery methodologies

• Development of the technical architecture behind our surveillance offerings

• Building and maintaining relationships both internally within the PwC network and externally with clients

• Supporting sales through work on bids proposal responses and developing opportunities

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Strong understanding of market abuse regulation in the UK US and ideally globally

• Hands-on experience implementing or optimising surveillance tech (e.g. Trading Hub MAST Smarts Scila Actimize KX)

• Proficiency in data analytics tools and techniques (e.g. Python PySpark vector-based methods)

• Experience working with various data storage and processing engines (row column key-value)

• Familiarity with data visualisation tools like PowerBI Tableau D3 or Bokeh

• Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Proven ability to manage teams and deliver complex data projects under pressure

• Strong stakeholder management and excellent written and verbal communication