Murex Back Office Consultant - Dhabi

Position: Murex Back Office Consultant - relocation to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Project Description
The Murex Back Office Consultant will be required to be part of GM IT Operations Squad responsible to provide IT services to Global Markets Operations team. The squad is responsible for support, change request and projects pertaining to Global Markets Operations. Key responsibilities of the role include engaging with business, conducting analysis, developing requirements, reviewing technical and functional design, building and testing solution, and ensuring proper closure of the different initiatives by taking ownership/accountability end to end.

Responsibilities

• Analysis & Documentation of user requirements and transpose into Functional Specifications

• Act as key liaison with Global Markets Operation teams (business and their supporting functions), IT teams as well as with the vendors

• Participate actively in discussions with business, understand their needs and transform them into change or project initiatives

• Define the systems and data requirements and validate the systems design and processes from functional and technical aspects

• Develop and refine the various business/functional/testing requirements in support of the project and systems involved, working alongside the vendor if needed

• Configuration of the solution as per requirements

• Act as the subject matter expert for Murex suite of tools used within Operations (Functional & Technical) and ensuring that all functionality of the products are installed and leveraged to its best capability within the group

• Creation of test plan, test cases, execution of system testing

• Contribute to the User Training activities, through one-to-one discussion, preparation of user training guides & presentations

• Follow up with vendor support as and when necessary to resolve bugs/issues

• Ensure technical and functional hand over of the project and changes to the relevant teams

• Assist in developing business and operational processes and to participate in developing system training artefacts when required

Skills Description

• Total 7-+ years of working experience.

• Minimum 5 years of experience as Murex Operations with SME of technical knowledge of back-office workflow (contracts, events, deliverable, exchange), MXML development and configuration hands on experience.

• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience in a Bank (Banking project) or IT Company.

• Experience in implementation and supporting Murex v3.1 with regards to back-office capabilities.

• Excellent knowledge of Capital Markets products and processes, front to back. Strong understanding of the financial markets, trading and banking solutions

• Good exposure to Murex - Static data (Counterparts, securities, historical data, indices, Settlement Instructions...)

• Excellent exposure to Operations processes in Murex (MxML Exchange, postrade workflow, pre trade workflow)

• Good understanding of swift messages configuration (MT300,MT320,MT60X,MT54X,MT202,MT103...)

• Excellent knowledge about Murex datamart module.

• Back office functional knowledge should encompass most or all of the following asset classes:
Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, Equity Derivatives, Fixed Income, FX Cash, FX Derivatives, Commodities, Structured Derivatives

• Strong knowledge of the Global Markets products and practices, front-to-end: pricing, limit checks, booking, risk management, accounting generation, settlements and confirmation generation

• Candidate must be technically astute and have had relevant exposure and experience with bank systems and processes

• Strong proven track record of liaising with stakeholders for business requirements, specification documents, testing processes and other relevant information.

• Strong numerical skills coupled with the ability to deliver well under pressure and tight deadlines.

• Candidate must display strong verbal and written communication skills.