Murex Front Office Support Lead

Job Description:
Job Title: Murex Front Office Support Lead

Duties: Role requirements

The ideal candidate will possesses a great attitude, and operate with a mindset of URGENCY, OWNERSHIP, INITIATIVE, COMMUNICATION, SERVICE and PARTNERSHIP:
Very strong knowledge of Fixed income derivatives markets, Interest Rate Derivatives, FX, Futures, Cross-currency, Options products – Critical for the role
Extensive experience as Murex front office trading analyst (superior Portfolio Risk analysis, P&L explain/resolution, Market data/Pricing, curve construction, RBPL, simulation views, pre-trade pricing) – This is the core focus of the role
Excellent communication skills and good temperament, with the ability to face off to challenging trading clients, experience in electronic trading and/or clearance and settlements
Strong experience in Murex Livebook and RTBS (market data) support and maintenance
5+ years in an Level 2 production trading application support role (Market data, Pricing, OMS, Execution Booking, Position keeping, Risk platforms, etc.)
Basic Linux, SQL and any scripting language (Shell, Perl, Java, Python, etc.)
Any enterprise batch scheduler software experience (Control-M, Autosys, Tidal)
Working knowledge of underlying infrastructure and interoperability (servers, storage, network, middleware)
Working knowledge of basic ITIL Service management practices (Event, Incident, Problem and Change management )
Any supervisory / Management team leadership experience would be a strong plus
Degree in Financial engineering, Quantitative finance or Mathematics preferred

Skills: Typical activities within the function would include:

Portfolio Risk analysis, P&L explain/resolution, Market data/Pricing, curve construction, RBPL, simulation views, pre-trade pricing
End User Support: capture, investigate, communicate, track, resolve application issues (break/fix), adhoc queries, transaction investigations, reconciliation, order checks and replays, static data updates, EOD reporting, access and entitlements
Event Management: Health checks, monitoring of application dashboards, alert response, investigation, monitoring tool implementation, maintenance and config changes, batch exceptions
Incident Management: Manage requests, incidents, outages, communication and escalation.
Problem Management: Metrics, reporting, trending, driving Stability and continuous improvement
Change Management: Release and deploy, CAB review and approval for all production change, Acceptance into Service standards, act as gatekeeper to prod
Capacity Planning & Preventative Actions: Metrics and reporting, design, testing, provisioning, data archiving (shared with Dev and Infra teams )
Configuration Management: Documentation, asset and inventory management, production hygiene
Recoverability: DR, resiliency, testing, data restoration
Batch: setup and management, drive optimization
Audit and Compliance: Audit response and investigation.
Planned rotations into L3/Development space for qualified candidates

Required Skills:

APPLICATION SUPPORT
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
DERIVATIVES
END USER SUPPORT
FIXED INCOME

Additional Skills:

ITIL
JAVA
LINUX
MIDDLEWARE
OFFICE SUPPORT
PERL
PRICING
PYTHON
RECONCILIATION
RISK ANALYSIS
SCRIPTING
SETTLEMENTS
SQL
TRADING
ARCHIVING
AUDIT
CAPACITY PLANNING
CAPITAL MARKETS
CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
DATA ARCHIVING
DOCUMENTATION
EXCELLENT COMMUNICATION SKILLS
GREAT ATTITUDE
INCIDENT MANAGEMENT
INVENTORY
MAINTENANCE
METRICS
OPTIMIZATION
PROVISIONING
SWITCH CAPACITY

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