CONTRACT TO PERM- Senior FX Trading Consultant to support multiple FX applications for one of our major banking clients- 38731 

CONTRACT TO PERM- Senior FX Trading Consultant to support multiple FX applications for one of our major banking clients- 38731

Location Address: Hybrid - Toronto - 1-2 days per week - subject to change/increase

Contract Duration: 6 months (MUST CONVERT TO PERM)

Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week

Story Behind the Need

• Business group: GBME - Technology Solution - Global Banking and Markets Engineering (GBME) is the fast-moving, award-winning technology engine that powers bank’s Corporate, Investment Banking, and Capital Markets businesses.
• Project: GBME is searching for Technical Product Analyst to liaison between business stakeholders and internal engineering and architect teams, ensuring solutions are developed and delivered on time, efficiently and with high quality for various projects within GBME.
• Support multiple sets of FX applications used for business in FX - corporate, commercial liquidity management - FX Cash, FX Options
• Major projects are in the retail space and merging cash and options business into one platform - Murex - moving off legacy of FX cash and migrating to single platform which already exists for FX options

Typical Day in Role:

• Demonstrate an informed knowledge of business functions to resolve problems and capitalize on improvement opportunities.
• Ensure business specifications/requirements documentation is accurately prepared and comprehensive to support sizing/development efforts and as input to various project documentation.
• Develop and deliver Business Requirements Documents, Design Documents, Use Cases, and Process Models as required.
• Work closely across GBME technology teams during all stages of the system development life cycle and bridge the gap between business and technology sides of the solution.
• Liaising between the business community and the IT organization to provide technical solutions that meet user needs.
• Build relationships and communicate effectively with colleagues in Global regions.
• Support production issues and handle escalations during Release cycles as needed.
• Perform ad hoc work as needed.
• Project specific functions/tasks you will be performing
• Integration with Trade Origination, Order/Execution Management Systems;
• Integration with market, reference, and instrument data services;
• Data mapping between FIX protocol and proprietary Trade Lifecycle Schema (orders, fills, non-trading events, positions);
• Requirements and use case solicitation and clarification with various stakeholders including Sales and Trading, Support, Product Control, Other Middle and Back Office functions;
• Requirement documentation for services performing data enrichment, translation, aggregation, data access objects, interaction with messaging bus;
• User interface wireframing and design;
• Data flow, sequence diagramming;
• Interactive collaboration with development team to interpret requirements and deliver specific functionalities;
• Functional and regression testing, testing automation.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 7+ years total working experience with 5+ years’ practical experience and product business knowledge in capital markets, specifically with FX.

2) 3+ years’ hands-on experience with an FX trading platform (e.g. Murex, e-trading platforms, Calypso)

3) Experience leading large streams or multiple streams within larger projects

4) Experience working with all phases of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)

5) 5+ years’ working knowledge of databases such as SQL Server, with ability to create and run queries independently.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

1) Experience with Jira, Confluence delivery tracking and documentation software.

2) Experience with data flow, sequence diagramming, other software diagramming models is an asset.

3) Excellent working experience of Microsoft suite of products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).

4) Familiar with Trade Life Cycle for listed and OTC product events such as Trade Booking/Management, Various Corporate Actions, Unwind, Rate Reset or Fixing Process, Realized Cashflows.

5) Experience participating in agile projects that span change in front, middle or back-office systems and teams.

6) Experience with FIX protocol or integration with Order/Execution Management Systems is an asset.

Education:

A recognized undergraduate degree or diploma in business administration, computer science or related field - focus on work experience

Best VS. Average Candidate:

The successful candidate will have a results-oriented and curious mindset with strong technical skills.

Looking for SMEs in FX space - strong preference for previous experience working on Fx trading applications - background/experience with Murex or ION Wallstreet

Experience leading streams in large initiatives

Strong communication skills - interacting with stakeholders from back office, trading floor etc.

Ability to work under pressure and manage stress - work within larger team

Take initiative and able to drive things end to end

Be independent and not rely on direction - minimal hand holding

Candidate Review & Selection

2 rounds - MS Teams Video Interviews - 45 minutes

1 with SMEs

2nd with HM