Upskills provides expert financial software consulting for investment banks and leading financial institutions in Asia Pacific Middle East and Europe region. With a strong Front to Back expertise of cash and derivatives markets coupled by an indepth knowledge of financial markets technologies we provide smart businesswise and efficient solutions.
We are seeking a highlymotivated Front Office Trading Consultant with good knowledge and experience with Fixed Income to join our dynamic Trading Team. As a Murex Trading Consultant you will play a crucial role in supporting the Front Office trading systems used by our cash equity trading desk. Additionally you are not limited to:
- Analyze business processes and functional requirements perform gap analysis between existing and required solution to drive the delivery of relevant user requirements documentation.
- Collaborate with technology teams to design and implement enhancements to the trading systems.
- Work with the users to test achieve signoff (UAT) and move the system toward golive.
- Provide daytoday support to Front Office traders addressing their queries and issues related to the trading systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor or Master Degree preferably from Quantitative Finance Applied Finance Business Analysis Financial Engineering Computer Science or relevant discipline.
- Possess working experience on Murex Front Office (Pricing Simulation Pretrade).
- Sound knowledge & functional experience on at least 2 asset classes. E.g. FX MM FI IRD.
- Experience in the implementation or support of a Front office system within a bank.
- Solid understanding with SQL & experience with at least one wellknown RDBMS such as SQL Server Oracle Sybase IBM DB2 MySQL.
- Basic knowledge of scripting with Unix or Python.
- Able to work in a team environment focused on providing high quality of service to the client.
- Excellent interpersonal skills able to handle priorities and manage business expectations
- Strong and demonstrable problem solving/analytical skills.
Murex, Trading, Capital Markets, Fixed Income, Forex, Money Markets, SQL, Unix, Front Office
Education
Master's/Bachelor's Degree in Quantitative Finance, Financial Engineering, Business Analytics or relevant disciplines.