Location Address: WFH (Toronto Once BCP is lifted)
Contract Duration: 10/04/2021 to 03/31/2022 – 6 month contract
Story Behind the Need:
Team responsible of designing, developing and maintain the in-house built Over-The-Counter derivatives trading and risks platform in global wholesale banking.
• Project: will be working on in-house OTC derivative platform and working closely with development team. Testing and final product delivery.
Candidate Value Proposition:
• Great opportunity to work on a global platform which will be used by bank users worldwide.
Typical Day in Role:
– The role is responsible for overseeing the development and day to day operations of the Trade Management processes as it pertains to the Bank’s derivatives trading platform.
– Supporting the Front to back office trading lifecycle while also gathering requirements and planning out the ongoing evolution of the system. This involves:
•Providing support to the Business and prioritizing deliverables with front and middle office teams to plan out monthly sprints. Excellent time and relationship management will be required to manage upcoming deliverables and user expectations for each release. The result of which must be articulately communicated to the Development team and outlined in JIRA tickets.
•Requirements gathering and documentation for existing and new processes/systems developed within Trade Management stream. This encompasses BA, Dev and User inputs to flesh out documentation which can then be stored and shared via Confluence. Requirements gathered for new initiatives will also have to be stored in JIRA tickets on a per issue/feature/change basis.
•Creating Test Cases and fully running through scenarios to ensure results match up with business expectations and that releases are bug free. Typical production releases are conducted once per month on Friday night, which will occasionally require the applicant to stay late to conduct post implementation checks and provide updates/support for downstream systems.
Responsibilities include:
• Gather business requirements from capital markets and treasury users across font, middle and back offices
• Analyze business requirements, and provide system designs and solutions with consideration of pros and cons
• Translate system solutions into development specification
• Design and execute test cases to meet business expectations
• Drive communications between users and developers
• Prioritize initiatives with consideration of system component interdependency
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 5+ years of capital markets experience –
2) Knowledge of derivative products in rates, equities, forex and credit in capital markets space (proven through recent relevant experience)
3) Understand full software design, development and test cycles (proven through recent relevant experience)
4) Excellent data analysis skills including SQL commands (minimum 5 years’ running commands)
5) Good communication skills who can describe complex business and system concepts in a clear and efficient way
Nice-To-Have Skills:
– Experience in capital market front office trade booking and risk systems
– Nice to have previous migration project experience in capital markets and/or treasury space
– Hand-on experience in MarkitWire, WSS FX, or other vendor derivatives platforms preferred
– Unix / Shell Scripting experience is nice to have
Soft skills:
• Excellent time management skills in a fast pace environment
• Ability to lead project initiatives both in a small team setting and independently
Degrees or certifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Economics, or Finance