JOB DESCRIPTION At PwC, our people in forensic services focus on identifying and preventing fraudulent activities, conducting investigations, and maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements. Individuals in this field play a crucial role in safeguarding organisations against financial crimes and maintaining ethical business practices. In fraud, investigations and regulatory enforcement at PwC, you will focus on identifying and preventing fraudulent activities, conducting investigations, and confirming compliance with regulatory requirements. You will play a crucial role in safeguarding organisations against financial crimes and maintaining ethical business practices.
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 Manager with deep expertise in market abuse and surveillance, and strong hands-on experience with trade and order data. You’ll be comfortable working across multiple surveillance vendor technologies and understand the regulatory landscape, including MAR, MiFID II.
You’ll 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:
1. Vendor evaluations and support for surveillance strategic roadmaps
2. Market abuse surveillance implementation and calibration (e.g. detection scenarios, instance identification, parameter setting and tuning)
3. Data driven surveillance effectiveness review and optimisation
4. Reviewing end-to-end data and process flow supporting surveillance implementations
5. Holistic surveillance approach and advice across, voice, eComms, trades and orders
6. Assistance in responding to regulatory enquiries
Your main responsibilities:
7. Leading the delivery of complex data-driven surveillance projects – managing scope, budgets, risks, and outcomes
8. Leading on deployment of advanced analytical techniques to risk score alerts and reduce volumes of trade surveillance false positive populations
9. Producing high-quality client deliverables and contribute actively to project teams
10. Developing and owning Financial Crime propositions and delivery methodologies
11. Development of the technical architecture behind our surveillance offerings
12. Building and maintaining relationships both internally within the PwC network and externally with clients
13. Supporting sales through work on bids, proposal responses and developing opportunities
Essential Skills and Experience:
14. Strong understanding of market abuse regulation in the UK, US and ideally globally
15. Hands-on experience implementing or optimising surveillance tech (e.g. Trading Hub MAST, Smarts, Scila, Actimize, KX)
16. Proficiency in data analytics tools and techniques (e.g. Python, PySpark, vector-based methods)
17. Experience working with various data storage and processing engines (row, column, key-value)
18. Familiarity with data visualisation tools like PowerBI, Tableau, D3 or Bokeh
19. Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
20. Proven ability to manage teams and deliver complex data projects under pressure
21. Strong stakeholder management and excellent written and verbal communication