Trading Controls & Integrity Analyst

Ic Markets Global

Forex Cfd

Ic Markets Global

Ic Markets Global

Forex, CFD

Role Overview

Behavioural Analysis

• Analyse trading activity to identify patterns of abusive or exploitative behaviour
• Detect structural exploitation involving trading mechanics, incentives, or platform protections
• Monitor for coordinated activity across related accounts, IB structures, or trading groups

Investigations

• Conduct detailed investigations into suspicious trading activity, including:
• Trade reconstruction
• Behavioural pattern analysis
• Timeline and account relationship mapping
• Produce clear, evidence-based investigation reports suitable for internal governance and audit review

Incentive & Rebate Integrity

• Monitor incentive programs, IB rebates, and promotions to detect abuse or manipulation
• Identify economic leakage arising from misaligned incentive structures

Trading Disputes & Integrity Reviews

• Analyse trading disputes related to execution fairness, incentives, or commercial treatment
• Provide objective, data-driven assessments of disputed trading outcomes

Escalation & Governance

• Escalate confirmed integrity breaches or structural vulnerabilities to relevant teams including:
• Risk, Trading, Strategy & Transformation & Legal / Compliance
• Maintain structured case documentation and investigation logs

Integrity Monitoring

• Track emerging behavioural trends that may indicate new exploitation strategies
• Contribute to the development of monitoring frameworks and detection approaches

What You Will Be Investigating

• Examples of behaviours the team investigates include:
• Rebate and incentive gaming
• Coordinated trading across related accounts
• Exploitation of Negative Balance Protection
• Trading clustered around rollover or gap-risk windows
• Structural exploitation of trading policies or platform mechanics
• Behaviour designed to create asymmetric risk outcomes
• These investigations focus on commercial fairness and integrity, not trading profitability

Required Experience

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in one of the following areas:
• Trading surveillance
• Fraud detection
• Market surveillance
• Trading operations
• Risk analysis
• Financial crime investigations
• Brokerage or exchange environments
• Experience analysing trading data, transaction patterns, or behavioural signals

Key Skills

• Strong analytical and investigative mindset
• Ability to detect behavioural patterns in large datasets
• Attention to detail and evidence-driven thinking
• Curiosity about trading behaviour and market structure
• Strong written communication and documentation skills
• Comfort working with trading data and platform logs

Desirable

• SQL, Python, or data analysis tools
• Experience with trading platforms (MT4/MT5, FIX environments, exchanges)
• Knowledge of financial markets or derivatives