Murex Back Office BA

Project Description

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.

Mandatory Skills Description

• Total 7-9 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.