Real-Time Surveillance Analyst

Nasdaq is a leading global provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information, and public company services. Through its diverse portfolio of solutions, Nasdaq enables customers to plan, optimize and execute their business vision with confidence, using proven technologies that provide transparency and insight for navigating today's global capital markets. As the creator of the world’s first electronic stock market, its technology powers more than one hundred marketplaces in fifty countries, and 1 in 10 of the world’s securities transactions. Nasdaq is home to approximately 4,000 total listings with a market value of approximately $15 trillion. To learn more, visit: http://www.nasdaq.com About our Team As a trading venue Nasdaq has a responsibility to keep the security markets fair and efficient by upholding effective and well-balanced regulation and fairly enforcing exchange rules. Nasdaq Trading and Member Surveillance team is working at the core of the marketplace and plays a central role to maintaining functioning markets. We interact with wide range of market participants including brokers and banks (exchange members), listed companies (issuers), investors and local regulators to foster and maintain confidence in our markets. Position overview Nasdaq is looking for talented professionals to fill multiple roles within our Real-Time Market Surveillance team, from entry level to senior positions. The Real-Time Market Surveillance team monitors trading in several asset classes including equities, derivatives, and fixed income instruments across all Nordic marketplaces operated by Nasdaq. The primary objective is to ensure fair and orderly trading by identifying potential market abuse cases or violation of the trading rules. The team works closely together with Surveillance teams in Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Iceland, Oslo, and in the U. S. Employees within Surveillance are subject to restrictions with regards to trading in securities. Your role and responsibilities will include: - Perform Real-time Market Surveillance by analysing price movements, trading volumes, trading patterns and news around listed products. - Analyse market anomalies, price fluctuations, trading volumes, and other key indicators to detect risks of malfunction or non-compliance with Market Abuse Regulation or Nasdaq market rules. - Escalate unusual trading activity to relevant stakeholders in a timely and structured manner - Uphold orderly markets and if necessary, intervene in trading by executing trade cancellations or trading suspensions. - Address market participant inquires by providing guidance to the stakeholders on compliance with applicable rules. - Perform due diligence on new exchange member applications, and present assessments and conclusions to the Nasdaq decision makers. - Participate and contribute to periodic risk assessments to assess control coverage of relevant risks. - Review, update, and provide recommendations to the current Surveillance procedures and policies to optimize operational activities. - Participate in the regular calibration review process, including analysis of alert trends and recommendations for parameter changes that could improve the effectiveness of the Real-Time trade surveillance controls. - Partner with Post-Trade analysts to assess alert generation and escalation trends to identify emerging risks and opportunities for control enhancement. - Perform data analytics and process review to identify opportunities and implement solutions to enhance surveillance efficiency through pattern calibration, automation or technology innovation. - Ensure that Surveillance requirements and controls are implemented for new business initiatives - Stay up-to-date with the latest financial regulations and standards (e.g., MiFID II, MAR) and ensure surveillance practices are aligned with regulatory changes. - Contribute to sample-based Quality Assurance (QA) reviews.