Murex Front Office Support Consultant

About the role

The Murex Front Office Support Analyst joins the GM IT Front Office squad, which provides IT services to the Global Markets team and handles support, change requests and projects for that team. The role delivers Level 1 and Level 2 trading-floor support to traders and control groups.

Key responsibilities

• Support traders and middle-office users on daily issues such as P/L and position mismatches and market data.
• Configure curves (rate, rate hedge, credit) and static data such as securities, generators, indices, currencies, volatility surfaces, portfolios, user groups and access rights in Murex.
• Write new pre-trade rules and create or amend lookup tables, simulation views, e-tradepad strategies and Live Book views.
• Work on patch and version upgrade testing to reconcile P/L and Greeks issues and avoid regressions.
• Report progress on issues and showstoppers to managers and stakeholders.
• Assist in developing business and operational processes and help build system training materials when needed.

Required profile

• Minimum 7-10 years of experience as a Murex Front Office support analyst.
• Extensive experience setting up and validating interest rate curves, including for ARRs.
• Expertise in at least two asset classes (IR vanilla and exotic derivatives, equity, commodity, FX derivatives, structured products, credit derivatives, FIMM); one of them must be exotics.
• Experience implementing and supporting Murex v3.1 for front office capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of capital markets products and processes, from front to back, and of global markets products (pricing, limits, booking, risk, accounting, settlement and confirmation).
• Proven track record of working with stakeholders on requirements, specifications and testing; strong numerical skills and ability to work under pressure.
• Nice to have: knowledge of Python, SQL or scripting languages used for pricing validation and reconciliation.

Required skills

• Strong exposure to Murex FO modules: E-Tradepad, Simulation, Livebook, RTPM, Pre-Trade Workflow, Market Data, Dynamic Tables, P&L Notepad, FDI templates, Blotters, Risk Matrices.
• Pricing, valuation, risk management and sensitivity analysis, including for exotic products.
• Implementation of both linear and non-linear products in Murex.
• English at C1 Advanced level.