Murex Trading Fixed Income Consultant

Upskills provides expert financial software consulting to investment banks and leading financial institutions in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Europe. With a strong, Front to Back expertise in the cash and derivatives markets, coupled by an in-depth knowledge of financial markets technologies, we provide smart and efficient solutions.
We are seeking a highly motivated Murex Trading Fixed Income with solid knowledge and experience for our Mx Upgrade Project with the following responsibilities:

• Analyze business processes and functional requirements, perform gap analysis between existing and required solution to drive the delivery of relevant user requirements documentation.
  
• Work hands on with Murex Front Office to configure and test to ensure business requirements are met. 
  
• Liaise with customers to scope, gather, review, and implement their Front Office business/ functional requirements. 
  
• Work with the users to test, achieve signoff (UAT), and move the system toward go-live. 
  
• Closely work with the Stream Lead to manage customer expectations on timelines
  
• Comply with the agreed ETAs and respect priorities. 
  
• Ensure clear and consistent communication on Fixed Income activities with relevant stakeholders while proactively highlighting risks to the Project Manager. 
  

Requirements

• Master's or Bachelor's Degree, preferably from Financial Engineering, Quantitative Finance, Business Analysis or relevant discipline. 
  
• Minimum 5 years of Murex Front Office experience working in Capital Markets Industry. 
  
• Solid knowledge with Fixed Income, Interest Rate Derivatives.
  
• Familiar with financial instruments representation and their lifecycle management.
  
• Experience writing functional and business specifications with the ability to map conceptual financial and business elements to practical system capabilities. 
  
• Expertise in market risk modules including MRA and MRB to perform custom stress testing and VaR analysis.
  
• Possess experience gathering and analyzing requirements from users.
  
• Excellent communication skills, able to handle multiple projects, priorities and manage business expectations.
  
• Must be customer driven, have the ability to work within a team environment, and be focused on providing a high quality of service to the customer.
  
• Strong and demonstrable problem solving/analytical skills.