What is the opportunity?

An exciting opportunity to join an FX Front Office support team in a major North American bank, supporting both front office users and our progressive eFX programme.

This role is within the FX Production Services group. The group is responsible for:

• Supporting IT solutions for various business lines globally including FX, Money Market, STIR and Options
• Offering technical expertise and support for the systems used
• Managing and resolving incidents and outages
• Managing requests for changes, system releases and capacity planning
• Disaster recovery, planning and execution

What will you do?

• Be responsible for support of all applications used in the FX trading and eCommerce areas including position management and treasury trading systems, electronic trading platforms application support, rate aggregation, pricing, distribution, low latency position keeping and auto-hedging systems. The team are points of contact for requests for new/different sources, exchanges etc
• Take a proactive approach to managing the production plant, including ownership of monitoring, the knowledge base, and documenting new procedures and application on-boarding runbooks
• Assist as point of contact between IT and business management for organising events such as upgrades and scheduled downtime
• Miscellaneous support of existing and new systems to complement the helpdesk service already in place

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• Solid experience in IT to include minimum 2 years of experience in the financial industry
• Previous experience of working in a front office trading IT environment
• Previous experience in a front office support role engaging directly with Sales and Trading desks
• Good product understanding of FX Spot and Forwards, NDF’s, FX options and simple MM products
• Experience in Solaris Unix / Linux / Windows environments, basic scripting, Sybase SQL
• Exposure to e-commerce trading systems – understanding and troubleshooting of pricing issues, integration of clients, ECN connectivity logic and flow

Nice to Have

• Demonstrated understanding of ITIL processes
• Experience of implementing trading systems both 3rd party and in-house developed would be advantageous
• Experience or knowledge of any of the following systems would be of benefit – Murex, TradeHub LightningFX, D3, Q/KDB, ITRS/Geneos, MarketFactory
• Experience of integrating and support of deal feeds into trading systems would be benefical
• Project management experience a plus

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

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Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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