Trade Surveillance Manager
Skills
About This Role
Overview
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
Desired Skills and Experience
compliance, trade surveillance
Your resume, rewritten
for this exact role.
Sign up free — Base Career tailors your CV to this job description in 60 seconds.
01 / 05
Resume Tailored to This Job
Your keywords, structure, and story — rewritten to match this exact role and pass ATS filters.
Free · No card · 60 seconds
02 / 05
Cover Letter for This Role, Done
Job-specific cover letters written in Gulf professional tone — ready in seconds, not hours.
Free · No card · 60 seconds
03 / 05
See How Well You Fit This Role
AI match score with clear reasons — know your fit before investing time in the application.
Free · No card · 60 seconds
04 / 05
Apply in One Click
Autofill any application form on Workday, LinkedIn, Bayt, Greenhouse — with your tailored content.
Free · No card · 60 seconds
05 / 05
Track It. Follow Up at the Right Time.
Visual pipeline for every application with AI-timed follow-up reminders so nothing slips.
Free · No card · 60 seconds
2.2K+
Cover Letters & Follow-ups
1.8K+
Resumes Tailored
190.5K+
Jobs Tracked
Trusted by professionals at
Stop applying blindly.
Start getting hired.
Base Career automates the hardest parts of job searching — apply smarter, not harder.
AI Resume in 60s
Your resume rewritten for this exact role using the job description as the brief.
ATS-Optimized
Get past automated screening filters with the right keywords matched to each job.
Application Tracker
Track every job, follow-up, and interview in one visual kanban board.
Free plan · No credit card required