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Project Description:
Luxoft has one of the world's leading Murex practices. We are a top-tier Murex Alliance Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade, and migration. We provide end-to-end project services and have delivered over 200 successful Murex projects across all major asset classes and sectors including investment banking, asset management, corporate treasury, and insurance.
Whether you possess a background in finance, technology, or Mathematics, your experience in the capital markets industry would be of high interest to us.
Responsibilities:
- Resolve daily production-related issues on the both technical and functional side
- Resolve intra and end of day batch related issues
- Resolve issues encountered with workflows, reports (Datamarts), and integration points (Up/Downstream systems)
- Amend workflows, reports (Datamarts), and integration points (Up/Downstream systems) as a result of issues found from PRODUCTION support-related issues
- Resolve daily issues with Equity Total Return Swaps (must)
- Work closely and address issues from EQD and IRD Desk Traders
- Amend FO pre-trade rules, eTradePad, and simulations (sometimes)
- Resolve requests or issues with P&L, Market Data, and booking issues
- Analyze, formulate, proposed, develop and/or contribute to overall solutions as per PROD Support deliverables
- Liaise with technical team(s) -- when needed -- to resolve PRODUCTON support related issues and necessary enhancements
- Yield Curve issue resolution and validation; curve assignments; new curve creation
- Perform various levels of testing for assigned deliverables as well as participate in formal release cycles (SIT/UAT)
- When required, develop FO Business requirements per given stream and according to Project needs as they come along
- Continuous follow-up of new Market regulations/practices globally
Mandatory Skills:
- Strong knowledge of Murex Workflows, Datamart Module, MxML Exchange
- Strong knowledge of Murex Production Support activities, including batch support
- Strong understanding and hands-on experience in supporting Market Data, Curve structure, Simulations, and Trade Life Cycle
- Good product knowledge in EQD (IRD, CRD, FXD is a plus)
- Good understanding of Equity Total Return Swaps (TRS) Business
- Fair understanding of the P&L concept overall and its components
- Strong analytical, pricing, and conceptual skills
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Strong presentation skills
- Strong relationship-building skills both internally and externally
- Strong experience in supporting Murex Production users and resolving their daily issues
- Some understanding of Market Risk Management
Must:
- 4+ yrs of previous experience in Murex Production support activities on the techno-functional side
- Previous experience with Murex Production Support on the technical (integration) side (workflow, datamart, environment management)
- SQL, Unix
- Strong functional and technical understanding of Murex
- Must have a strong personality, logical and analytical skills
- Be detailed-oriented, a quick learner, and a self-starter
- Possess good verbal and written communication skills
- Must have strong organizational skills
- Experience in financial markets
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Debugging accounting issues would be an added advantage
- Exposure to building and supporting Datamarts
- Having an Agile experience a plus
- BS or higher degree in Finance, Mathematics, or equivalent
- Test management
- Trade life cycle management
- Market Data management
- Knowledge in SQL (Oracle and/or Sybase) and Unix commands is a plus
- Client focus: understands clients' businesses; identify and understands the needs and objectives of clients, both on an individual and corporate basis; builds strong relationships to aid Luxoft's aim of being a trusted partner to the clients.
- Communication skills: expresses ideas effectively verbally and in writing; adjusts language, terminology, and non-verbal communication as appropriate.
- Teamwork: works effectively with others; helps to build strong teams and networks.
- Personal leadership: realistically identifies own skills, experience, knowledge, and other personal attributes; displays confidence and resilience.
- Planning and organizing: identifies and meets milestones; understands and articulates deliverables; assesses and mitigates risks; sticks to the scope of work and manages any changes.
- Analytical decision-making: identifies and solves problems using insight and experience to make good decisions; gathers relevant information, identifying important issues and drawing conclusions.