Senior Compliance Governance & Operations Analyst - TDS Trade Surveillance - Data Quality

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Job Description:

Job Description:

The TD Securities Compliance team is seeking a Senior Compliance Officer (Associate-level) to join the Surveillance Data Quality Team. The team supports the Trade and Communications Surveillance leads across geographies (US, Canada, EMEA, and APAC), as well as key stakeholders to execute across an industry-leading data-quality framework. Specifically, the Data Quality Team  works with TDS Chief Data Officer (CDO), Data and Delivery Initiatives (DDI) team, Compliance Technology, First-Line Risk and Control, and Front Office Technology to deliver a Surveillance data quality framework that includes: policies and procedures for effective data governance; data completeness and accuracy checks; surveillance inventories (define surveillance critical data elements); data-quality monitoring tooling and metrics.    
The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in financial markets, data governance, trade surveillance systems, and regulatory requirements at a large financial institution.

Our team of trusted Surveillance Compliance professionals engage with key stakeholders across TD Securities (TDS), including Markets Sales and Trading leaders, Technology, Advisory Compliance, and Risk functions.  Through due diligence, and with a strong sense of integrity, we help mitigate potential risks to the surveillance program, and ultimately the global Markets business, by delivering and comprehensive and effective second-line compliance surveillance function.  Safeguarding the reputation of Compliance's good governance depends on us.

The Senior Compliance Office provides advice, guidance and support to business units in adhering to regulatory/compliance requirements and assists in implementing compliance initiatives to help manage regulatory risk.

Key Responsibilities:

• Data Governance & Quality Strategy: Assist the Data Quality Director in the development and implementation of a robust data quality framework for trade surveillance, ensuring data integrity across multiple trading desks and asset classes.
• Surveillance Data Management: Support the ingestion, transformation, and validation of trading data from multiple sources (e.g., order management systems, execution platforms, and market data feeds).
• Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management: Help to ensure TDS meets regulatory requirements as it relates to surveillance data (e.g., SEC, CFTC, NFA, FINRA, FCA, CIRO, etc.) and aligns with internal compliance policies.
• Technology & Automation: Collaborate with Technology teams and the CDO to enhance data pipelines, improve data validation processes, and create monitoring tools to detect anomalies in surveillance data.
• Issue Resolution & Root-Cause Analysis: Assist in the investigation and remediation of surveillance data-quality issues and help implement controls to prevent recurrence, and enhance reporting mechanisms for senior management.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with Trade Surveillance teams, CDO, Compliance Technology, and Front Office Technology on surveillance data quality issues.   Support the Data Quality Director in reporting on data quality issues.

The Senior Compliance Office provides advice, guidance and support to business units in adhering to regulatory/compliance requirements and assists in implementing compliance initiatives to help manage regulatory risk.

Depth & Scope:

• Works independently as the senior officer and may coach and educate others
• Individual contributor role providing specialized expertise or may lead a small team of specialists
• Considered a subject matter expert within a given area working closely with business partners, auditors and/or regulators
• Contact for business management, regulators and external/internal auditors with assistance from Management, dealing with routine information
• Provides day to day interaction and support to Management
• Oversees/executes and/or performs tasks from end to end
• Focuses on short to mid-term issues (e.g. monthly-quarterly)

Education & Experience:

• Bachelors degree or progressive work experience
• 5-7 Years of related experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Finance, Data Science, Computer Science, or related fields.
• Experience in surveillance data quality at a large investment bank
• Demonstrated knowledge and capabilities in supporting a robust surveillance data governance framework, trade surveillance tools (e.g., SMARTS, Actimize, and Trading Hub), and communications surveillance tools (e.g., Behavox).
• Understanding of trading in equities, fixed income, FX, and derivatives markets, as well as market abuse and trade manipulation typologies
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, or other data analytics tools for large-scale data processing and validation.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to communicate complex data concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Al/ML-driven surveillance models and automation techniques.

Who We Are:

TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

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Training & Onboarding
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Interview Process 
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