Functional BA

Project Description:

- Join a key initiative delivering a cutting-edge trading platform for a leading North American hedge fund. This project offers a unique opportunity to gain exposure to a variety of financial products while building hands-on experience with a modern trading platform.
- You will be part of the Business-as-Usual (BAU) support team, contributing to ongoing development and testing activities that support the platform's continuous expansion.
- As part of this role, you will join our Orchestrade Practice—an open-minded, collaborative, and forward-thinking team. This environment provides an excellent platform to enhance both your functional and soft skills, while deepening your expertise in the capital markets industry.
- About the Platform - Orchestrade:
- - Built on .NET (C#)
- - Native integration with Excel
- - Supports a wide range of asset classes and workflows

Responsibilities:

- Support daily BAU activities and production issues (L1-L3)
- Respond to use issues / incidents / request on multiple domains, with a strong focus on Functional elements of Orchestrade
- Resolve daily FO issues on both functional, valuation, and pricing
- Resolve daily issues stemming from multiple trading desks (must)
- Work closely and address issues from Traders (L3)
- Amend pre-trade rules, pricing tools
- Resolve Pre-deal origination workflow and post execution monitoring and life-cycle management
- Dedicated workflow, configuration of the platform, supporting business
- Resolve request or issues with P&L, Market Data, and booking issues
- Analyze, formulate, proposed, develop and/or contribute to overall solutions as per PROD Support deliverables
- Liaise with technical team(s) -- when needed -- to resolve Functional related issues and necessary enhancements
- Yield Curve issue resolution and validation; curve assignments; new curve creation
- Continuous follow-up of new Market regulations/practices globally
- Perform various levels of testing for assigned deliverables as well as participate in formal release cycles (SIT/UAT)
- Manage day-to-day assigned project tasks to complete various deliverables
- When required, develop Functional Business requirements per given stream and according to Project needs as they come along

Mandatory Skills Description:

- Essentials Skills and Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of hands on experience on Orchestrade OR Murex OR Calypso OR similar platforms
- Capital Market experience with strong cross-products knowledge
- Strong knowledge of Financial products and their trade lifecycle
- Excellent analytical skills, understanding of project life cycles, and ability to act in an entrepreneurial manner to ensure the requirements from the business are gathered in the appropriate manner.
- Proven analytical, planning, problem solving and decision-making skills
- Comfortable with direct communication with all levels of technical and business resources
- Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Experience with working in a highly collaborative and dynamic multi-team environment
- Experience in writing user stories and working with JIRA /similar tools.
- System Integration and User Acceptance testing
- Must have attention to details; have the ability to work independently and also as part of a group

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

- Experience of Agile practices and processes (e.g. SCRUM, KANBAN)
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment is essential
- Have a willingness to learn new skills and do whatever is necessary to "get the job done" attitude
- Basic Technical skills: SQL, UNIX, and .NET knowledge