Murex Front Office Consultant

at  Upskills Consultancy Services

JOB DESCRIPTION

Upskills provides expert financial software consulting to investment banks and leading financial institutions in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Europe. With a strong, Front to Back expertise in the cash and derivatives markets, coupled by an in-depth knowledge of financial markets technologies, we provide smart and efficient solutions.

We are seeking highly motivated Murex Front Office Consultant with good knowledge & experience in Murex Front Office to service our client, a top investment bank in the U.S:

• Analyse business processes and functional requirements, perform gap analysis between existing and required solution to drive the delivery of relevant user requirements documentation.
• Work hands on with Murex Front Office to configure and test to ensure business requirements are met.
• Liaise with customers to scope, gather, review, and implement their Front Office business / functional requirements.
• Work with the users to test, achieve signoff (UAT), and move the system toward go-live.
• Closely work with the Stream Lead to manage customer expectations on timelines
• Support clients with the development of their own internal project plan, including the identification of key setup and configuration tasks, scope considerations, timeline, etc.
• Responsible for training users on basic use of the system, new functionality, etc.
• Assist in system integration, data migration and implementation.

REQUIREMENTS

• Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree, preferably from Quantitative Finance, Financial Engineering, Applied Finance, Business or relevant discipline
• Minimum 5 years of experience working within the capital markets industry.
• Expertise in Trade/Order Booking and Pricing included structured notes issuances, with advanced knowledge of Murex Scripting Language (Pricing/Booking Sequence, Pretrades)
• Expertise in Position Monitoring including the design and implementation of customized simulation views and on-demand reports including bond analytics, IR and Cross-asset sensitivities, Effective duration, etc. Expertise in other modules such as PL Explain (Risk Based PL to explain key rate movements, etc.).
• Expertise and hands-on experience in Performance Attribution and Benchmarking, NAV calculations.
• Expertise in market risk modules including MRA and MRB to perform custom stress testing and VaR analysis.
• Asset classes: Rates, Fixed Income, ABS, FX, Inflation, Equity derivatives as well as commodities.
• Strong preference for Risk experts to have prior experience in valuation functions.
• 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.

SKILL SET

Fixed Income, Trading, Equity Derivatives, Murex, Front Office, VaR, Market Risk, SQL, Bonds, Consulting, Pricing, Pretrade, Quantitative Finance

Please refer the Job description for details