Front Office BA

Project Description An excellent opportunity for personal development in a dynamic environment. Please ensure you read the below overview and requirements for this employment opportunity completely. You will join a highly skilled and dynamic team supporting Murex applications in the UK and our global practice focused on Application installation support around the world. We are one of the largest Murex partners and offer a wide range of opportunities in the region. There are good opportunities to develop in different areas. The team is highly skilled and will provide a great opportunity to expand your knowledge. Responsibilities • Act as the subject matter expert for Front Office and ensuring that all functionality of the product are installed and leveraged to its best capability • Technical Analysis of changes, solution design, development/configuration and unit testing • Define the systems and data requirements and validate the systems design and processes from functional and technical aspects • End to end ownership of tasks in cooperation with Business Analysts and Testing team. • Participate actively in discussions with business, understand their needs and transform them into change or project initiatives • Creation of test plan, test cases, execution of system testing • Contribute to the User Training activities, through one-to-one discussion, preparation of user training guides & presentations • Follow up with vendor support as and when necessary to resolve bugs/issues • Ensure technical and functional hand over of the project and changes to the relevant teams • Assist in developing business and operational processes and to participate in developing system training artefacts when required Skills Must have '• Experience working in the financial industry with relevant experience in business analysis and project implementation. • Background in the following FO areas of Murex - E-Tradepad, Simulation, Viewers, Pre-Trade Workflow, Market Data, Dynamic Tables, P&L Notepad, FDI Templates, Blotters, Risk Matrices, Livebook etc. • Functional Knowledge of Interest Rate Swaps & Derivatives • Strong analytical and problem solving skills accompanied with excellent communication • The candidate should carry a minimum relevant work experience in a Bank or I.T. Company for a minimum of 5-7 years. • Strong record of stakeholder management and leadership skills • Strong team player with excellent communication & inter-personal skills. • Strong problem solver who can question and understand proposed solutions and business drivers. • Strong organizational and leadership skills Nice to have • Implementations and upgrades: MXpress; FEM migrations, MXplus updates and MX.3 main-branch upgrades • Trade life cycle management • Market Data management • Knowledge in SQL (Oracle and/or Sybase) and Unix commands is a plus