• Work in a team-oriented environment, supporting Derivatives and Fixed Income business lines.
• Support front, middle, and back office business users, as well as risk, accounting, and reporting groups throughout the organization on a variety of issues and requirements.
• Provide and document solutions to issues raised by users through analysis of derivative deal and market data, process logs, data interfaces, and code (scripting languages) as needed.
• Deliver solutions to users by leading the development lifecycle. This requires coordinating with the development team to define and document solutions, test developed products, obtain user sign-off, and verify successful production release.
• Develop and execute test plans that will ensure business requirements have been met.
• Balance a relationship between the business, operations and the technology areas, working with business users to prioritize requests.
• Perform daily first line user support and problem solving using business knowledge and specific knowledge about local processes gained on the job.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Required/Must have:

• User-level skills in PC Windows environment (Word, Excel and VBA, email).
• Ability to utilize graphical interface of trading and risk system in a Solaris-based environment system.
• Experience with a project management tool (MS Project or similar).

Desired/Plus:

• Experience with using a trading system such as Opus, Summit, Calypso, etc.
• Microsoft business tools (Word, Excel).
• Conceptual knowledge of Unix basics, such as directory hierarchies.
• Basic knowledge of shell scripting.

BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE
Required/Must have:

• Must have derivative middle office experience and considerable operations background.
• Knowledge of derivative financial products (Interest Rate Swaps and Swaptions, Credit Derivatives) and Fixed Income products, and corresponding market data.
• Understanding of Derivatives and Fixed Income pricing and analytics.
• Good understanding of Derivatives models and Financial Engineering.
• Very familiar with the P&L process and P&L/risk explanations.
• Solid Finance and Economic knowledge.
• Knowledge of back office and operations process.
• Derivative accounting.
  

  Desired/Plus:
  

  • Job offers growth opportunity in fixed income, knowledge would be helpful.
  • Derivatives or fixed income accounting.
  • Exposure to fixed income financial products.
  • Knowledge in pricing models.
  
  
  

  COMPETENCIES
  Required/Must have:

  • Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to facilitate discussions, manage tight deadlines or unexpected requirement changes with the ability to learn/understand some technical implications of system design.
  • Experience in documenting business requirements; managing, organizing and prioritizing multiple tasks.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Ability to change tasks as needed when user emergencies arise.
  • Self-motivated fast learner.
  • Great people skills.
  • Great political sense.
  • Successful record of managing client expectations and deliveries.
  • Ability to articulate application design with business line users.
  • Be able to handle deadline and pressure.
  • Candidates must be able to provide a writing sample.
  
  
  

  PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE
  Required/Must have:
  

  • 10+ years total experience
  • 5+ years experience in the financial industry
  • Direct interaction with business line users
  
  
  

  EDUCATION
  Required/Must have:
  

  • Bachelors degree in Finance, Engineering, Math, Economics or related