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Front office Trade Support-Derivatives
Role overview:
The primary duty of the role is to be part of the EMG IT Trading Support team, to work alongside the Front Office traders to support and develop new applications for the Emerging Markets derivatives business. Support of current production trading books and applications will also form an integral part of the role.
Key Deliverables:
The major responsibilities of the role include:
# Understand the current applications and business processes, identify extensions and new functionality
# Support to the EM Derivatives trading desk.
# Dealing with urgent trader requests and issue resolution.
# Investigation into trade positions and analysis of valuation and risk issues.
# Interfacing with other IT departments, in particular Derivatives IT, Product Control and Risk Measurement & Management to ensure that the work falls within the main overall IT strategy for the organization.
# Gain an understanding of the derivative business and front-to-back trading processes.
Alongside the above the role would require the candidate to:
# Carry out development efforts utilizing a wide variety of technologies on systems and feeds between spreadsheets, front office data stores, and back office channels
# Perform work on new strategic systems to assist the replacement of spreadsheets
The role will involve liaison with the EM Derivatives trading desk to understand complex business problems and assess the business requirements for a variety of ongoing business-driven enhancements.
There will also be additional responsibilities such as assessment and prioritization of proposed development items, functional verification of delivered features, ad-hoc system bug analysis, and handling of âbusiness as usualâ requests.
The EM Support teams support the desks in trading a full range of derivatives products, including Interest Rate Swaps, FX products, Bonds , CDSs, CLNs, Total Return Swaps, Swaptions, Caps Floors, Futures, and other structured products. Developer roles in the support teams expose team members to the complete spectrum of trading and exposure to more complex instruments is limited only by the candidateâs interest and ability.
Qualifications/Competencies:
Education & Professional Qualifications:
Essential
A bachelorâs degree in Finance, a Mathematical Science, Engineering or Computer Science is required.
Desirable
Graduate work in Finance, Mathematics or another Quantitative Science is preferred.
Work experience / Background:
Essential:
This role requires at least two years of experience in investment banking with some in a trader support or business analysis capacity in a front office development environment.
The ability to take ownership of issues and follow to resolution is important; as is an innovative approach and methodical analytical style of problem solving.
Desirable:
Previous experience as a front office spreadsheet developer or risk system developer would be advantageous through not essential.
Any experience of the structure and valuation of Interest Rate, FX, Credit products and other vanilla products would be useful. Further experience with other exotic products and Latin America markets would be also be beneficial.
TECHINICAL/BUSINESS SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE:
Essential:
Candidates will need to be able to demonstrate strong design and development skills in C#.
A good understanding of the importance of good software development practices is vital.
1+ years experience with C# and SQL are required.
Previous experience in VB development
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