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 Practicean 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
- Skills

Must have
- 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
- 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 skillsSQL, UNIX, and .NET knowledge