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The FX Business Technology Analyst role for the FX trading & Risk Management systems will be participating in various strategic projects and BAU initiatives in the FX Applications department.
We are looking for a new team member to develop and maintain the platform centred around a Murex Front to Risk system and a margin collateral management system to manage clients’ risk.
The position requires a high degree of business knowledge, high self-organizational capacity and complimentary technology skills in the FX market (front to back), subject matter specialist on MX.3.1 and experience in hands on configuration, testing and deployment of innovative solutions in an agile environment.

YOUR CHALLENGE

The role reporting to Zurich based head of FX team encompasses the following tasks and responsibilities:

Change the bank

• Actively participate and support Program Increment (PI) planning process within Markets

• Capture, specify and document business requirements

• Analyse, configure, test, implement and document functional changes

• Participate in necessary analysis and implementation of business logic

• Discuss requirements and solutions with business owners and stakeholders

• Test & onboard new functionalities and bug fixes

• Coordinate and conduct functional testing of new functionalities

• Accompany end-users during SIT and UAT

• Continuously drive and improve the platform
  

Run the bank

• Support and troubleshoot issues raised by business users ranging from market data, static data, P&L and risk

• Investigation of STP failures

• Support for new reference data setup (currency pairs, portfolios, generators, archiving groups, etc.)

• Investigation of trade life cycle events

• Troubleshooting of end of day processes and batch resolution queries

• End of day reports maintenance. (typically business driven, alteration of query conditions)

• Support simulation tool issues. (e.g. PnL and Greeks discrepancies, risk matrices setup, PnL explain, etc.)

• Availability one weekend per month for production deployments

YOUR PROFILE

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, banking, or related relevant field

• 10+ years of experience preferably in the financial industry involving Murex

• Strong understanding of FX trading front to back

• Excellent understanding of FX cash, FX Options, derivatives, precious metals and Fixed Income products

• Good knowledge of Linux operating systems, database & SQL related queries (Oracle, Sybase)

• Profound technical & business functional experience of the various FX modules in Murex (MX3.1), life cycle events, simulation/livebook, P&L and risks

• Good experience on design & configuration of Pre-trades rules

• Knowledge on Murex Datamart reporting & Murex Limit Controller "MLC”

• Able to work autonomously in a global team setup to take on initiative with a positive attitude

• Solution oriented and able to work in an agile setup & strong analytical skills, able to specify and document requirements

• Able to quickly troubleshoot problems and provide effective solutions

• Willingness to contribute to both analytical tasks and performing hands-on implementation and testing tasks

• Prior working experience with requirement gathering and user acceptance testing

• Highly motivated blended with a team player spirit

• Fluent in English, in written form and orally German (would be an advantage)

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