2. Stakeholder Management – will need to manage the stakeholders, manage timeliness, agree on the key deliveries.
3. 8-10 years of experience.
4. Understanding of Commodities and Market Data – Preferred
5. Strong communication skills, to stakeholders and peers.
6. Experience of working in a high-pressure environment with aggressive delivery timeliness.
Description:
Delivery of a part or of the whole of the code of an application development , following the project plan and functional specifications delivered by the business analysis.
Analysis, development or configuration of existing or new software module.
Involvement in the module deployment and integration.
Follow the appropriate good practices and standards.
Our well established Hedge Fund client is seeking and experienced Business Analyst / Project Manager to join their London based team in a permanent role:
This role is circa £75 – 90k base salary and will be based onsite in central London 4 days a week with 1 home office.
Your Role:
We seek an experienced Business Analyst for our Hedge Fund business. The successful candidate will work closely with all different business stakeholders on workflow automation solutions concerning compliance, risk, portfolio management, operations, and trading.
The candidate should demonstrate strong technical skills and financial product knowledge. They must have experience working alongside a global team to deliver solutions that adhere to firm wide standards. They will oversee the implementation and configuration to provide the solution to the end business user. The role is one that requires full understanding of the in house and third-party systems and dependencies. It is also required to be able to design and create the reporting and controls that need to be in place to maintain the solutions.
Job Description:
Work closely with Compliance team to produce regulatory reporting for the firm to be compliant with regulators requirements.
Elicit requirements using a variety of techniques to build the specification.
Critically evaluate information from multiple sources, reconciling conflicts and providing options to the business sponsor.
Act as conduit between the business sponsor and the software development team/third party vendor.
Proactive communication with business units around progress and delivery timeframes.
Design and document the controls required to maintain solutions.
Plan and design the implementation phase of any project while considering go live and ongoing support process.
Oversee and/or implement the deployment of solutions into the live environment. It is possible that the final solution could be fully controlled by the change team.
Provide user documentation for any applications and processes implemented.
Skills & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in business or IT related field and relevant work experience.
Comprehensive understanding of financial instruments including but not limited to: CDS, IRS, fixed income, equities, equity derivatives, ETD, Commodity and FX.
You will be part of the IT Development department, responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining key business applications and
services on our highly-specialized investment product management platform. We value Agility (through SCRUM), Technology (through a
modern micro-services platform built with functional programming in Scala) and Collaboration.
Thanks to a fluid and concentrated organization, frequent communication with end-users and internal training on the investment product
domain you will provide concrete and robust technology solutions to our clients, partners and users.
YOUR TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES Deliver high quality solutions in tight timeframes to meet demanding customer requirements
Work closely with business and other IT units to gather and understand requirements
Contribute to software and architectural design decisions
Contribute to a robust automated test suite to work in a continuous integration / continuous deployment environment
Become involved in the internal DevOps and Scala guilds, building relationships with other developers and identifying / implementing best
practices
Maintain close interaction with the business on very diverse topics: front-end portals to management of long-maturity life insurance products
Nice-to-have
Financial background in either banking or the insurance industry
Cloud migration activities either Public or Private
Experience of working with design thinking techniques in iterative sprints is an advantage to this role
CQRS and event sourcing hands on experience
Knowledge of server-less architecture would be a benefit
DevOps experience configuration management, containers, virtualisation, continuous integration and deployment
Practical experience with Google Cloud Platform
Akka / Akka Persistence / Akka HTTP / Akka Streams
Cats / FS2
Slick
Kafka / event streaming pipelines
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
Jenkins
Our Trading client is seeking a Senior Quant Analyst to join their team in a full-time permanent position.
Senior Quantitative Analyst:
Responsabilities:
Liaise with Trading, Risk and IT to ensure correct implementation and monitoring of the full deal life cycle from pricing to nominations
Applying risk-based pricing and hedging strategies to structured deals
Develop quantitative infrastructure and expertise, wherever necessary, to extend the desk’s capability of ad-hoc pricing and trading non-standard complex products
Work with other departments (Trading, Market Risk, IT, Analysis), providing them with appropriate quantitative support and know-how
Apply quantitative skills to build sustainable models for the organization
Close collaboration and know-how exchange with Market Risk to achieve a high standard of quantitative modelling
What you bring & who you are:
Proven experience in a similar position as a quantitative analyst
Strong / Expert in programming languages and quantitative applications such as C#/F#/.net (C++)
Experience in commodity markets and European energy is highly appreciated
Ability to translate complex mathematical problems into practical business executables
responsible for the operation, maintenance and development of the global trading system (FIS Front Arena). You will provide excellent services to all stakeholders across our international locations, creating long-term added value for the company.
Your responsibilities
Implement and develop new integrations, market connections and functionalities within our trading system Front Arena
Support the business in their daily work
Work to improve system stability and drive automation
Your profile
Practical experience in the field of Front Arena
Knowledge in FIX-Protocol and/or Python is an advantage
Experience with Front Arena PRIME/ADS, Automation, Microsoft Windows Server and MS SQL is desirable