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FX Operations Analyst with some IT background (up to 40K x 12)

Top Executive (Asia) Limited

  • Company Industries:General Business Services

Job Information

  • Post Date:2014-06-06
  • Career Level:Middle
  • Location:Central
  • Yr(s) of Exp:5 years
  • Qualification:Degree
  • Employment Type:Full Time, Permanent
  • Job Function:Investment  Financial Services  Application Specialist - Software  
  • Benefits:Five-day work week  Medical insurance

Job Description

This position will see you working within the Operations team and deal with all MTF related tasks from managing markets to onboarding and supporting MTF members and clients.

Key Responsibilities / Duties:

  • Main contact for MTF members, third parties and clients for operational and technical support
  • Facilitate and manage onboarding process for new members, third party integrations and broker clients including connectivity, order-entry and market-data setup and certification testing
  • Provide technical support for FIX onboarding and resolving FIX queries
  • Ensuring the smooth daily operation of the MTF while liaising with Members/Liquidity Providers, Prime Brokers, CCP, post-trade vendors and market data vendors
  • Monitor markets to ensure pricing and trading is in line with the best execution policy
  • Investigate and resolve pricing and trade queries/breaks
  • Provide support to sales and client facing staff by answering questions about how the exchange works, connectivity, best practices and policies
  • Communicate with members and third parties to update them on open issues status and production changes
  • Monitor corporate actions and currency holidays
  • Maintain Operational and Technical documentation including process documents, instrument/market information documents and FIX specifications
  • Manage, prioritise and escalate defects raised by members/third parties with the development team to meet member needs, while managing member expectations to prevent overload or missed deadlines

Key Working Relationships:

  • The key relationships span the entire organisation including Customer Services, Treasury, Risk, Technical Account Management, IS, Development and regular reporting to the Management Team.

The Person

Skills and Attributes

  • First class written and verbal communication skills as well as experience of excellent organisational practices and capable of prioritising
  • Excellent organisational and forward planning skills
  • Ability to understand complex financial products, including corporate actions
  • Ability to understand Exchange technology
  • Ability to explain complex operational and technical concepts in simple terminology
  • Ability to manage people in a pressured environment
  • Able to perform well in the face of tight deadlines and tough technical and organisational challenges
  • Ability to work independently, a self-starter, innovative and a team player
  • Enthusiasm to take on new tasks and flexibility in working to meet deadlines
  • Drive and determination, ability to work in a dynamic, fluid organisation

Experience and Qualifications

Essential:

  • Degree holder or above
  • Experience in IT within banking/ finance sector
  • Min. 5 years in banking or financial sector and the trade life cycle in Forex (FX) Operations
  • Proficient at using Microsoft Excel

Work location:

Central

Interested parties, please forward your full and detailed cv in a MS WORD format to: career@topexecutive.com

 

Company Info

Our client, a well established General Insurance group is looking for a FRESH GRAD . The right candidate should be/ posses:

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