Murex Trading Consultant; Front Office

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 highly-motivated Murex Front Office Trading Consultants to be based in New York with good knowledge and experience with Fixed Income to work in a client-servicing role to drive one of our client’s global system implementations. As 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 solutions 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 sign-off (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.

• Master’s or Bachelor’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, FIX, IRD.
• Experience in the implementation or support of a Front Office system within a bank.
• 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.