Markets Surveillance Senior Analyst

Our client is the leading pan-European market infrastructure, connecting European economies to global capital markets, to accelerate innovation and sustainable growth. It operates regulated exchanges in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal. With close to 1,930 listed issuers and around €6.8 trillion in market capitalisation as of end March 2023, it has an unmatched blue-chip franchise and a strong diverse domestic and international client base.

They operate regulated and transparent equity and derivatives markets, one of Europe’s leading electronic fixed income trading markets and is the largest centre for debt and funds listings in the world. In addition to its main regulated market, it also operates several junior markets, simplifying access to listing for SMEs.

Role Decription:

• We are looking for a Senior Market Surveillance Analyst to join our client's team. In this role, you will be responsible for supervising a portfolio of international Equity, Index or Commodity Derivative products and ensuring fair and orderly trading is safeguarded. You will use your expertise to guide and coach the team in day-to-day business operations and take necessary actions to prevent irregularities in the market and resolve issues quickly and accurately.

Responsibilities:

• Supervise a portfolio of Derivative products and trading behaviors to ensure fair and orderly trading is safeguarded.
• Ensure the maintenance of derivative safety nets that are used for trading to avoid occurrences such as significant price deviations or flash crashes.
• Take decisions based on rules and regulations to halt and reopen derivative contracts and decide if trades are aberrant or if orders need to be canceled.
• Monitor the Derivative alerts, spot, report and escalate irregularities based on the trading procedures, rulebooks, regulation, and the Market Abuse framework.
• Calculate high-quality daily settlement prices and expiry prices used as closing prices for the Exchange and used by the clearing house for settlements.
• Support the Operational and Project lead in the business as usual and Project work.
• Run the Serious Incident Management process in crises situations and provide expertise.
• Provide expertise and write Requirements in the diverse projects the team is involved with.
• Maintain the test environment and perform sanity checks for new trading platform releases to secure a safe production environment.

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience in similar roles; experience with derivatives.
• Strong management and leadership skills.
• Full proficiency in English.
• Strong IT acumen.
• Hands-on approach, organized, with attention to detail and able to bring structure.
• Team player and intercultural competence and excellent communication skills with ability to work in a virtual team across locations in different countries to achieve common goals and deliver projects.
• Able to take decisions whilst under pressure and to handle stressful situations.