2027 - Internship, Surveillance

About the role

Join QRT’s Compliance department in London as a Surveillance Intern, monitoring trading activity across global markets. You will review alerts, investigate potentially suspicious or disorderly trading, analyse market data, improve surveillance tools and support regulatory obligations while collaborating with Compliance Advisory, Risk, Trading and Technology teams.

Responsibilities

• Review trade surveillance alerts and investigate unusual or potentially suspicious trading activity.
• Analyse trading activity across multiple asset classes, markets and jurisdictions.
• Develop knowledge of market-abuse typologies, including spoofing, layering and insider dealing.
• Help integrate new markets, products and data sources into the surveillance framework.
• Work with technology and data teams to improve monitoring tools and surveillance processes.

Example projects

• Analyse order and trade data to identify patterns indicating suspicious or disorderly trading.
• Support investigation and documentation of daily surveillance alerts.
• Analyse flagged electronic or voice communications.
• Test and calibrate surveillance alerts, thresholds and detection logic.
• Build data-analysis or automation tools, including data-quality controls, to improve surveillance reviews.
• Work with Compliance, Trading, Risk and Technology teams to resolve data or surveillance issues.