Trade Surveillance Manager

A leading international trading platform is looking to hire a Compliance Manager to join its growing team in Abu Dhabi. The business operates across global markets and is continuing to expand its international presence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the continued development and enhancement of the company’s global compliance framework across multiple jurisdictions and trading activities
• Lead and oversee trade surveillance activities across physical, freight, and derivatives markets
• Monitor and investigate trading activity, identifying potential market abuse, manipulation, or other compliance concerns
• Define surveillance governance standards, escalation procedures, alert calibration, and documentation processes
• Ensure adherence to exchange rules, reporting obligations, and relevant regulatory requirements
• Conduct compliance risk assessments across trading activities and business practices
• Provide regulatory and compliance guidance to internal stakeholders and trading teams
• Support the development and implementation of compliance policies, procedures, and internal controls
• Assist with KYC and enhanced due diligence reviews involving higher-risk counterparties
• Support interactions with regulators, exchanges, and external authorities where required
• Participate in internal investigations and support whistleblowing and ethics-related processes
• Build strong working relationships across Front Office, Risk, Legal, and senior management functions

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Law, Business, or a related discipline
• Approximately 5–10 years of relevant compliance or trade surveillance experience within:
• commodity trading houses
• energy majors
• investment banks
• exchanges
• regulators
• surveillance providers
• Strong experience across trade surveillance frameworks and surveillance system implementation/calibration
• Knowledge of ICE, CME/NYMEX, or similar trading venues would be highly valued
• Strong understanding of:
• market abuse and market conduct
• sanctions compliance
• AML and KYC
• anti-bribery and corruption
• derivatives reporting obligations
• exchange regulations
• Experience dealing with international regulators and cross-border compliance matters
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with both commercial and control functions
• Commercial mindset with the ability to operate in a fast-paced environment

Due to the high amount of applicants, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

If this sounds relevant, feel free to reach out for a confidential discussion:

patricia.deguzman@robertwalters.com