ION SME

Posted 5 days 6 hours ago by Harvey Nash Group

Permanent
Full Time
Other
England, United Kingdom
Job Description

Fantastic opportunity to join a world class banking environment, based in the City of London.

Primary Responsibilities
  • Working with key stakeholders globally to provide trading solutions
  • Coordination, planning, and execution of changes across proprietary systems, vendor platforms and third-party components supporting the Fixed Income desk
  • Demonstrating a strong focus on identifying and implementing process enhancements to optimise system performance and elevating user experience
  • Providing deskside L3 ION/e-trading support (and remote where appropriate) across Fixed Income including trading/sales desks, back-office and ION platform
  • Providing L3 support to the production Fixed Income trade flow from execution on market to downstream systems, including BBG TOMS and back-office systems
  • Liaising with other teams in supporting "add-on" functionality & up/downstream process flows for the Fixed Income Trading Desk. (e.g. Trade flows, end of day position marking etc.)
  • Systems configuration: Follow set procedures to configure supported applications according to approved functional requirements. These requirements may form part of the project implementation, or may be part of production support
  • Maintenance of PRD & DR environment: Be responsible for the working state of PRD & DR environments, ensuring they are fit for use
Experience
  • Extensive experience supporting a live ION Trading environment with live market connectivity for Rates, Credit or Swaps desks with access to trading venues such as MTS, Brokertec Bloomberg, Tradeweb, MarketAxess, iSwap, Tradition & EUREX.
  • Strong experience providing technical support for Fixed Income Desks within an Investment Bank.
  • Strong experience working with both project team & users.
  • General understanding of financial markets and products, in particular Fixed Income & Rates.
  • Strong trouble shooting experience within the ION environment
  • Familiarity with Bloomberg TOMS for trade & position management
  • Understanding & prior experience of full end to end cycle for quoting, trading, electronic trade confirmations, settlement, P&L valuations.
Technical Knowledge/Skills
  • Technical knowledge of ION components:
    • Platform
    • MMI
    • MDATA
    • Pricing (PXE)
    • Connectivity
    • Ticketing, Position, & Risk
    • Trading Tools
    • RFP Gateways/STP Server
    • VMO/VMQ
  • Strong knowledge of:
    • Fixed Income financial products
    • Bond Pricing
    • Hedging
    • Market connectivity & STP
    • Refdata
    • MarkitWire
    • SWM FPML_Converter
  • Strong knowledge of working on Linux Platforms.
  • Intermediate knowledge of Sybase + TCL scripting.
  • Basic knowledge of Transact SQL, Excel, and VBA
  • Experience in using Bloomberg TOMS & Tradeweb Viewer for trade entry
  • Use of JIRA
  • Testing Experience