ION SME

Location: City of London

Fantastic opportunity to join a world class banking environment, based in the City of London.

Primary Responsibilities

* Working with key stakeholders globally to provide trading solutions

* Coordination, planning, and execution of changes across proprietary systems, vendor platforms and third-party components supporting the Fixed Income desk

* Demonstrating a strong focus on identifying and implementing process enhancements to optimise system performance and elevating user experience

* Providing deskside L3 ION/e-trading support (and remote where

appropriate) across Fixed Income including trading/sales desks, back-office and ION platform

* Providing L3 support to the production Fixed Income trade flow from execution on market to downstream systems, including BBG TOMS and back-office systems

* Liaising with other teams in supporting 'add-on' functionality & up/downstream process flows for the Fixed Income Trading Desk. (e.g. Trade flows, end of day position marking etc.)

* Systems configuration:
Follow set procedures to configure supported applications according to approved functional requirements. These requirements may form part of the project implementation, or may be part of production support

* Maintenance of PRD & DR environment:
Be responsible for the working state of PRD & DR environments, ensuring they are fit for use

Experience

* Extensive experience supporting a live ION Trading environment with live market connectivity for Rates, Credit or Swaps desks with access to trading venues such as MTS, Brokertec, , Bloomberg, Tradeweb, Market Axess, iSwap, Tradition & EUREX.

* Strong experience providing technical support for Fixed Income Desks within an Investment Bank.

* Strong experience working with both project team & users.

* General understanding of financial markets and products, in particular Fixed Income & Rates.

* Strong trouble shooting experience within the ION environment

* Familiarity with Bloomberg TOMS for trade & position management

* Understanding & prior experience of full end to end cycle for quoting, trading, electronic trade confirmations, settlement, P&L valuations.

Technical Knowledge/Skills

* Technical knowledge of ION components:

- Platform
- MMI
- MDATA
- Pricing (PXE)
- Connectivity
- Ticketing, Position, & Risk
- Trading Tools
- RFP Gateways/STP Server
- VMO/VMQ

* Strong knowledge of:
- Fixed Income financial products
- Bond Pricing
- Hedging
- Market connectivity & STP
- Refdata
- Markit Wire
- SWM  

* Strong knowledge of working on Linux Platforms.

* Intermediate knowledge of Sybase + TCL scripting.

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* Basic knowledge of
Transact SQL, Excel, and
VBA
Experience in using
Bloomberg TOMS & Tradeweb Viewer for trade
entry
Use of JIRA
Testing Experience
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