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Senior Trade Surveillance Officer

Bitvavo· Compliance
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HeadquartersFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior individual contributor role overseeing Bitvavo's trade surveillance program to detect and address market abuse across MiCAR/MiFID II regulated trading activities. Responsible for risk assessment, design of detection coverage, investigation of suspicious orders/transactions, and regulatory filings.

Responsibilities

  • Own the market abuse risk assessment, review and maintain it across products, venues, client types, trading strategies and market structure
  • Own and continuously improve the trade surveillance framework, covering insider dealing, unlawful disclosure, and market manipulation under MAR, MiFID II/MiFIR and MiCAR
  • Assess and extend surveillance coverage against new products, services, trading venues and market structure changes, mapping each scenario back to the risk assessment
  • Manage the quality and completeness of order, trade, reference and communications data feeding the surveillance system
  • Monitor feed latency and alert generation latency, and define acceptable time-to-detect and time-to-review thresholds by risk
  • Triage alerts, assess and investigate suspicious orders and transactions, document findings, and decide on and file STORs with the relevant competent authority
  • Drive cross-functional projects with autonomy and accountability (e.g., surveillance system tuning, transaction reporting quality reviews, insider list process redesign)
  • Own maintenance of the trade surveillance policy, insider list, personal account dealing controls, alert logic, and MI that improves compliance outcomes and team efficiency
  • Partner with Trading, Legal, Risk, and Product to deliver strategic compliance outcomes, including new product reviews, market structure changes, and regulatory change projects

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience running, tuning and calibrating trade surveillance systems, and leading market abuse investigations from alert to closure, including STOR decision-making
  • 6+ years of relevant compliance/surveillance/regulatory experience, with a strong focus on market abuse in a MiFID II or MICAR regulated company
  • Comfortable working directly with order book, trade and communications data, ideally with SQL or Python, to build a clear, defensible narrative
  • Deep, practical knowledge of MAR, MiFID II/MiFIR, and related technical standards (e.g. RTS 22 transaction reporting, insider list requirements). Some knowledge of MiCAR is desirable
  • Comfortable engaging directly with regulators and senior stakeholders, including under time pressure
  • Excellent written communication skills: able to produce investigation reports and management information that are clear, well-evidenced, and decision-ready

Skills

Required:Trade surveillance systemsSQLRegulatory knowledgeCommunication
Nice to have:Python
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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