Senior Compliance Manager

Graviton Research Capital is expanding its global compliance function and hiring a Senior Compliance Officer in Singapore. You will play a key role in overseeing trading compliance across markets and designing controls that enable safe, scalable growth across our quantitative strategies.

Key Responsibilities

Regulatory & Exchange Oversight

• Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and other relevant regulatory frameworks for markets we operate in
• Oversee compliance with global exchange rules including order handling, algorithmic trading requirements, throttles, kill switches, and market conduct
• Manage reviews of exchange circulars, new rule proposals, and regulatory guidance; lead firmwide implementation efforts
• Oversee periodic regulatory filings, licensing matters, and exchange membership requirements

Surveillance & Monitoring

• Lead the design and enhancement of trade surveillance processes across market-abuse categories and algorithmic trading behaviours
• Work closely with Technology to evolve automated surveillance systems, monitoring thresholds, and alert workflows
• Oversee investigations, documentation, escalation, and remediation for compliance alerts or trading incidents
• Ensure controls are properly calibrated for the speed, scale, and microstructure of high-frequency trading environments

Control Framework & Testing

• Lead compliance reviews, thematic testing, and independent control assessments
• Oversee incident management processes, including root-cause analysis and follow-up remediation tracking
• Ensure consistent documentation of compliance actions, approvals, and regulatory correspondence
• Partner with Risk and Operations to ensure robust alignment across control functions

Business Partnership & Advisory

• Work with trading and engineering teams to evaluate new strategies, data feeds, and system enhancements
• Provide pragmatic, business-aligned advice on market access, strategy changes, and exchange onboarding
• Guide the development of compliance tooling, reporting, and automation
• Deliver firmwide training on market conduct, information controls, and regulatory developments

What We're Looking For

Experience & Qualifications

• 7–12+ years of compliance, regulatory, surveillance, or legal experience within electronic trading, market-making, or trading-technology environments
• Deep familiarity with global exchange rules, especially in the APAC region, and algorithmic trading regulatory requirements
• Strong understanding of market microstructure, low-latency trading workflows, and order lifecycle dynamics
• Experience dealing with regulators and exchange compliance departments
• Bachelor's degree in Law, Finance, Economics, or a related field; advanced degrees are a plus

Leadership & Skills

• Proven ability to build, scale, and manage a compliance function
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including with senior trading leaders and engineers
• Ability to interpret and translate complex rules into effective, practical controls
• Excellent judgment, discretion, and a principled approach to decision-making
• Organized, proactive, and comfortable operating in a fast-moving trading environment

Why Join Graviton

• Lead and shape the compliance program of a rapidly growing quantitative trading firm
• Direct exposure to global markets and cutting-edge algorithmic trading technologies
• High autonomy, clear ownership, and close collaboration with senior management
• Opportunity to build a modern, technology-driven compliance infrastructure