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Global Head of Compliance Surveillance

Primary office location
Sydney
Date
10-Jul-2025
Permanent - Full time, Senior
Job category
Compliance & Regulatory, Risk Management
Join our Global Compliance Leadership team based in Sydney and lead a team who play a pivotal role overseeing trade and electronic communication surveillance across all Macquarie businesses and support groups. 
At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 31 markets and with 56 years of unbroken profitability. You’ll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone - no matter what role - contributes ideas and drives outcomes.

What role will you play?

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As the Global Head of Compliance Surveillance, you play a key role in maintaining a strong compliance culture and an effective control framework in a highly regulated environment. This role will focus on ensuring the market abuse framework is appropriate and effective globally. You will be responsible for the strategic development of surveillance scenarios that are tailored to identify potential misconduct or activities counter to our obligations as a market participant, including market manipulation, market misconduct and insider trading as they may materialise within the electronic communications or trading activities across our businesses.

You will lead a global team, working closely with Business colleagues, Business Compliance, Operational Risk and Financial Crime Risk to ensure that the firm’s strategic infrastructure, processes, controls and staff function in keeping with Macquarie’s policies and regulatory expectations. You will liaise directly with internal and external (regulators) stakeholders to ensure compliance with regional and global regulatory requirements.

What you offer

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  • Experience in a similar role within a Global Financial Institution with a deep understanding of trading and surveillance within asset management, markets and investment banking
  • Prior experience leading large global and high performing teams across multiple jurisdictions
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to develop relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, both internally and externally.
  • Familiarity with both regional and global regulatory regimes pertaining to Risk Surveillance.

We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

About the Risk Management Group

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Our Risk Management Group works as an independent, and centralised function, responsible for independent and objective review and challenge, oversight, monitoring and reporting in relation to Macquarie’s material risks. We are a global team that aims to manage the risks of today and anticipate the risks of tomorrow. Our divisions include compliance, credit, financial crime risk, internal audit, market risk, operational risk, aggregate risk and prudential, and central.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

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We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and welcome all identities, including race, ethnicity, cultural identity, nationality, gender (including gender identity or expression), age, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status, parental, caregiving or family status, family and domestic violence status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disability, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process. To learn more, contact our team by clicking here.

Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and through working arrangements. If you require additional assistance, please let us know in the application process.

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