Trade Surveillance - Consultant

Summary

Position Summary

Regulatory, Risk & Forensic

Our Regulatory, Risk & Forensic team supports client leaders to translate multifaceted risk and an evolving regulatory environment into defensible actions that strengthen, protect, and transform organizations. Leverage advanced data, AI, and emerging technologies with deep domain and industry insights to help bring clarity from complexity and accelerate the path to value creation.

Position Summary

Level: Consultant or equivalent

As an experienced Consultant at Deloitte Consulting Services, you will be responsible for individually delivering high quality work products within due timelines. Need-basis you will be mentoring and/or directing junior team members/liaising with onsite/offshore teams to understand the functional requirements.

Work you’ll do:

As a member of the team, you will leverage your deep understanding of market abuse patterns—including insider trading, layering, spoofing, front-running, and manipulation—across multiple asset classes such as FX, Fixed Income, Commodities, and Rates. You’ll be responsible for designing and developing robust surveillance scenarios from the ground up and ensuring these are tailored to both regulatory and business needs. Your role will require creating clear Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), drafting policies and procedures, and collaborating with stakeholders across compliance, trading, IT, and audit functions to ensure holistic and actionable surveillance solutions. You will be tasked with tuning and calibrating surveillance parameters to optimize detection and reduce false positives, and you’ll provide subject matter expertise throughout the trade lifecycle—from transaction capture to reporting—while staying abreast of evolving regulatory expectations and best practices. The position demands a proactive approach to identifying process or governance gaps and contributing to the ongoing evolution of policies as market behaviors, products, and regulations change. Through these activities, you will play a critical part in maintaining the integrity of market operations and supporting clients in meeting both their compliance obligations and strategic objectives.

The team:

Our Enterprise Operations & Risk professionals help organizations effectively navigate business risks and opportunities—from strategic, reputation, and financial risks to operational and regulatory risks—to gain competitive advantage. We apply our experience in ongoing business operations and corporate lifecycle events to help clients become stronger and more resilient. Our market-leading teams help clients embrace complexity to accelerate performance, disrupt through innovation, and lead in their industries.

We help organizations in their efforts to achieve regulatory and legal compliance and transform their departments to add greater value to the business. We combine highly specialized skills focused on process, risk and controls to produce transformative insights. Our team:

• Enable profitable growth and competitive advantage by optimizing “heart of the business” operations.
• Leverage deep domain expertise to extend enterprise resilience, agility, and remediation.
• Drive enterprise- wide impact across strategy, operations, performance, and reputation.
  
  

Qualifications

Must Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant industry experience is required. Relevant experience should be with a financial services consulting organization or a large bank or a broker-dealer or an investment management firm, or the Global Capability Centres (GCCs) of these financial services firms.
• Experience and understanding of understanding of market abuse typologies (such as insider trading, layering, spoofing, front-running) across diverse asset classes including FX, Fixed Income, Commodities, and Rates.
• Experience creating BRDs, surveillance policies, and corresponding procedures.
• Strong practical exposure to multiple asset classes: FX, Fixed Income, Commodities, Rates, and Equities.
• In-depth knowledge of market abuse regulations and surveillance technology (e.g. NICE Actimize, SMARTS, Trading Hub, Steeleye etc.).
• Track record of collaborating with compliance and IT teams to design monitoring frameworks.
• Familiarity with conducting tuning/calibration exercises to enhance alert quality and system performance.
• Good problem-solving and analytical skills to navigate through complex business scenarios and recommend effective mitigation strategies & action plans.
• Flexible and dynamic in nature and able to turn around work quickly.
  
  

Good to Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:

• CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) or FRM (Financial Risk Manager) certification.
• Experience of working on Request for Proposals (RFPs).
• Prior external or internal consulting experience.
• Proven expertise in developing and implementing trade surveillance scenarios and controls.
• Experience of working on process transformation and solution design using GenAI/Agentic AI across surveillance functions.
  
  

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Management or similar fields.
• Master’s degree in finance, Business Analytics, IT, or Master of Business Administration (MBA) is preferred.
  
  

Location:

• Bengaluru/Hyderabad
  
  

Our purpose

Deloitte’s purpose is to make an impact that matters for our people, clients, and communities. At Deloitte, purpose is synonymous with how we work every day. It defines who we are. Our purpose comes through in our work with clients that enables impact and value in their organizations, as well as through our own investments, commitments, and actions across areas that help drive positive outcomes for our communities.

Our people and culture

Our inclusive culture empowers our people to be who they are, contribute their unique perspectives, and make a difference individually and collectively. It enables us to leverage different ways of thinking, ideas and perspectives, and bring more creativity and innovation to help solve our clients’ most complex challenges. This makes Deloitte one of the most rewarding places to work.

Professional development

At Deloitte, professionals have the opportunity to work with some of the best and discover what works best for them. Here, we prioritize professional growth, offering diverse learning and networking opportunities to help accelerate careers and enhance leadership skills. Our state-of-the-art DU: The Leadership Center in India, located in Hyderabad, represents a tangible symbol of our commitment to the holistic growth and development of our people. Explore DU: The Leadership Center in India .

Benefits To Help You Thrive

At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. Our comprehensive rewards program helps us deliver a distinctly Deloitte experience that helps that empowers our professionals to thrive mentally, physically, and financially—and live their purpose. To support our professionals and their loved ones, we offer a broad range of benefits. Eligibility requirements may be based on role, tenure, type of employment and/ or other criteria. Learn more about what working at Deloitte can mean for you.

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Requisition code: 319279

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