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