Financial Services

Murex FO functional support

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Our client are work with one of the world's top investment banks who are the leaders in the growth and push towards digitilization. They are now looking for a Murex Functional FO support consultant to join them in London.

Posted On: Thursday, 27th June 2019
Location: London
Job Type:
Contract
Pay Rate: €600- €650 per day neg
Duration: 12 months contract
Travel:

Job Description:

Our client are a global technology and business consultancy, focused on the financial services sector.  They are passionate about helping their clients succeed in an ever-changing industry.  

They are:

  • Experts in banking and payments, capital markets and wealth & asset management.
  • Knowledgeable in financial services offering, including e.g.
  • Finance, Risk and Compliance, Financial Crime, Core Banking etc.
  • Committed to growing our business and hiring the best talent to help us get there. 
  • Focused on maintaining their nimble, agile and entrepreneurial culture.

Project context:

You will be a part of Murex Credit Functional Support team with focus on Front Office, therefore your main task will be to keep the day-to-day operations of a business running smoothly by resolving incidents, answering requests / queries from traders and other system users as well as driving the continuous improvement initiatives with aim to improve platform's stability and quality.

Your responsibilities will be to:

  • Provide assistance to end users for daily activities (in particular Front-Office) and ensure continuous communication with them.
  • Resolve incidents in cooperation with other support teams on Murex platform
  • Perform regular checks on production and ensure maintenance operations
  • Work with developers to deliver solutions to Production problems and deliver new features to business.
  • Ensure efficient communication and cooperation with local support teams in Paris, NY, HK and Bangalore
  • Deliver product training to end users

Expected experience and knowledge:

  • Strong understanding of financial markets, specifically Credit
  • Derivatives, Fixed income, Repos and Interest Rate Derivatives.
  • Strong product knowledge (vanilla products), including valuation and sensitivities.
  • Strong understanding in Front-Office.
  • Good knowledge of Murex Front-Office tools on MX.III (Pricing, Simulation, Market Data, standard reports)
  • Good communication, interpersonal skills.
  • Good stakeholder management skills (contact with traders).
  • Minimum 4 years of relevant experience. In 2 clients max.
  • Past experience with offshore is a plus.
  • Fluent in English.

Preferred Skills: