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Job Description
Old Montreal, Canada | Posted on 06/15/2024
Upskills provides expert financial software consulting to investment banks and leading financial institutions in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Europe. With a strong, Front to Back expertise in the cash and derivatives markets, coupled by an in-depth knowledge of financial markets technologies, we provide smart and efficient solutions.
We are seeking highly motivated Murex Front Office Consultant with good knowledge & experience in Murex Front Office to service our client, a top investment bank in Canada:
- Analyse business processes and functional requirements, perform gap analysis between existing and required solution to drive the delivery of relevant user requirements documentation.
- Work hands on with Murex Front Office to configure and test to ensure business requirements are met.
- Liaise with customers to scope, gather, review, and implement their Front Office business / functional requirements.
- Work with the users to test, achieve signoff (UAT), and move the system toward go-live.
- Closely work with the Stream Lead to manage customer expectations on timelines
- Support clients with the development of their own internal project plan, including the identification of key setup and configuration tasks, scope considerations, timeline, etc.
- Responsible for training users on basic use of the system, new functionality, etc.
- Assist in system integration, data migration and implementation.
Requirements
- Master's or Bachelor's Degree, preferably from Quantitative Finance, Financial Engineering, Applied Finance, Business or relevant discipline
- Minimum 5 years of experience working within the capital markets industry.
- Expertise in Trade/Order Booking and Pricing included structured notes issuances, with advanced knowledge of Murex Scripting Language (Pricing/Booking Sequence, Pretrades)
- Expertise in Position Monitoring including the design and implementation of customized simulation views and on-demand reports including bond analytics, IR and Cross-asset sensitivities, Effective duration, etc. Expertise in other modules such as PL Explain (Risk Based PL to explain key rate movements, etc.).
- Expertise and hands-on experience in Performance Attribution and Benchmarking, NAV calculations.
- Expertise in market risk modules including MRA and MRB to perform custom stress testing and VaR analysis.
- Asset classes: Rates, Fixed Income, ABS, FX, Inflation, Equity derivatives as well as commodities.
- Strong preference for Risk experts to have prior experience in valuation functions.
- 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.
Skill set
Fixed Income, Trading, Equity Derivatives, Murex, Front Office, VaR, Market Risk, SQL, Bonds, Consulting, Pricing, Pretrade, Quantitative Finance
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