Trade Support Analyst (with capital markets exp_EST working hours)

Project Description:

Client's application support is responsible for the production systems, including Trading, Post-Trade, and PnL software, environment management, and software deployment. Will work closely with developers, business analysts and infrastructure team members as well as with portfolio managers and traders.

The candidate will participate in the release process, ensuring quality software is delivered in a timely manner.

Responsibilities

:• Working as part of a Global team (‘follow the sun’ model), to manage trading and risk platform readiness: pre-trading through to post-trade and reconciliation systems

.• Monitor and support end to end transaction flow across the trading platform

.• Quickly identify, analyze, and correct alerts & issues and/or escalate to minimize trade flow impact and preempt outage

s• Incident management: Communicate incidents and outages to key business stake holders and portfolio managers. Create PM reports following established procedures, to identify and track tasks to mitigate future occurrence

.• Problem tracking – identify and steer problematic issues through to resolution

.• Effectively and regularly communicate with Investment management, Portfolio managers, Operations, Development, Compliance and Infrastructure teams

.• Support scheduled changes working with Dev teams

.• Oversee automated processes, scheduled, alerting and regular reporting

.• Manage users’ requests / queries: track requests, review approvals, updates, resolution through to closure, etc

.• Identify inefficiencies such as repetitive activities, manual processes and suboptimum tools/workflows to drive continuous improvements via automation and collaboration with internal development team

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Mandatory Skills Descriptio

n:• At least 5+ years of application support experienc

e.• Comfortable with Client / server architecture, Linux OS, AWS and a good working knowledge of Kafka messaging / docker containerizatio

n.• Proficiency with Bash; a scripting language such as Python or Perl would be beneficia

l.• Detailed practical knowledge of FIX protoco

l.• Experience using relational Databases (eg MySQL, MS SQL

).• Good knowledge of trade flow, asset classes and trade life cycl

e.• Understand fundamental concepts with regard to PnL calculation, understanding key data inputs that affect risk views would be beneficial but not require

d.• Highly organized, detailed, control oriented, enjoys solving problems and brings in a "take charge" attitud

e.• Strong verbal/written communication skills required to support daily interaction with brokers, exchanges, senior management and portfolio manager

s.• Ability to articulate complex issues into a high-level summary for senior managemen

t.• Self-motivated individual that takes initiatives and has an ownership & accountability mindse

t.• Must show the ability to make quick decisions and establish priorities in a multi-tasking environmen

t.• Experience with the Atlassian stack (JIRA, Confluence, Service Desk) would be usefu

l.• Experience in building out Geneos monitoring including backend scripting and implement customizable alerting for bespoke / custom alert

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Nice-to-Have Skills Descripti

on:• Scripting - Python\JS\

etc• Knowledge of databases and associated structu

res• Experience with the use of MS Office applications: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Vi

sio• Knowledge of Fix Messaging protocol and setting up FIX connecti

ons• Front office Applications (Bloomberg, TradeWeb, MarketAxess), Trader Support will be a good bene

fit• Experience in supporting order flow management between the trading desk and brok

ers• Experience with Javascript will be a huge advant

age• Java applications support backgro

und• Experience with Cloud (AWS) platf