SoHo Dragon

SoHo Dragon represents an investment bank with offices in New York, NY that needs to hire a Murex Front Office Support Lead.

Duties:

The ideal candidate will possesses a great attitude, and operate with a mindset of URGENCY, OWNERSHIP, INITIATIVE, COMMUNICATION, SERVICE and PARTNERSHIP:

• Management / team leadership experience in technology support of Capital Markets trading and related functions
• 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
• Extensive experience as Murex business/trading front office analyst (superior P&L explain/resolution, Greeks, curve construction, Market data/ Fixings, SIMM, VaR, Risk analysis, simulation views, pre-trade pricing) – This is the core focus of the role
• Very strong knowledge of Fixed income derivatives markets, Interest Rate Derivatives, FX, Futures, Cross-currency, Options products – Critical for the role
• 5+ years in an Level 2 production trading application support role (Market data, Pricing, OMS, Execution Booking, Position keeping, Risk platforms, etc.)
• Ability to manage the book of work / open issues from the trading desks and work across IT and external vendors to capture, track, status update and drive issues to resolution
• 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 )