Murex Front Office Trading Consultant

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 in-depth knowledge of financial markets technologies, we provide smart, business-wise, and efficient solutions.

We are seeking a highly-motivated 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 go-live.
  
• Provide day-to-day support to Front Office traders, addressing their queries and issues related to the trading systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor or Master's 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 well-known 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.