Murex Front Office Analyst

SoHo Dragon represents an investment bank with offices in Midtown Manhattan. Our client needs to hire a Murex Front Office Analyst. The Murex Front Office Analyst will possesses a great attitude, and operate with a mindset of URGENCY, OWNERSHIP, INITIATIVE, COMMUNICATION, SERVICE and PARTNERSHIP:

W2 for Full Time Employment

Interview will be Phone Screen followed by possible WebEx or Face to Face onsite interview

Role requirements:
Good temperament, the ability to face off to challenging trading clients, experience in electronic trading and/or clearance and settlements

Extensive experience as Murex business/trading front office analyst (superior P&L explain/resolution, Greeks, SIMM, VaR, Risk analysis, simulation views, pre-trade pricing skills) – This is the core focus of the role

Very strong knowledge of Fixed income, Interest Rate Derivatives, FX, Futures, Options products – Critical for the role

5+ years in an Level 2 production trading application support role (Market data, Pricing, OMS, Execution Booking, Position keeping, Risk platforms, etc.)

Basic Linux, SQL and any scripting language (Shell, Perl, Java, Python, etc.)

Any enterprise batch scheduler software experience (Control-M, Autosys, Tidal)

Working knowledge of underlying infrastructure and interoperability (servers, storage, network, middleware)

Working knowledge of basic ITIL Service management practices (Event, Incident, Problem and Change management )

Skills

Typical activities within the function would include:
End User Support: capture, investigate, communicate, track, resolve application issues (break/fix), adhoc queries, transaction investigations, reconciliation, order checks and replays, static data updates, EOD reporting, access and entitlements

Event Management: Health checks, monitoring of application dashboards, alert response, investigation, monitoring tool implementation, maintenance and config changes, batch exceptions

Incident Management: Manage requests, incidents, outages, communication and escalation.

Problem Management: Metrics, reporting, trending, driving Stability and continuous improvement

Change Management: Release and deploy, CAB review and approval for all production change, Acceptance into Service standards, act as gatekeeper to prod

Capacity Planning & Preventative Actions: Metrics and reporting, design, testing, provisioning, data archiving (shared with Dev and Infra teams )

Configuration Management: Documentation, asset and inventory management, production hygiene

Recoverability: DR, resiliency, testing, data restoration

Batch: setup and management, drive optimization

Audit and Compliance: Audit response and investigation.