Murex BA Front Office Contract
Title: Murex Front Office BA
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Duration: 6 months extendable
Objective:
The Murex FO Business Analyst will be required to be part of GM IT FO Squad responsible to provide IT services
to Global Markets team. The squad is responsible for support, change request and projects pertaining to Global
Markets. Key responsibilities of the role include engaging with business, conducting analysis, developing
requirements, reviewing technical and functional design, building and testing solution, and ensuring proper closure
of the different initiatives by taking ownership/accountability end to end.
Tasks:
• Analysis & Documentation of user requirements and transpose into Functional Specifications
• Act as key liaison with Global Markets teams (business and their supporting functions), IT teams as well as
with the vendors
• Participate actively in discussions with business, understand their needs and transform them into change or
project initiatives
• Define the systems and data requirements and validate the systems design and processes from functional and
technical aspects
• Develop and refine the various business/functional/testing requirements in support of the project and systems
involved, working alongside the vendor if needed
• Configuration of the solution as per requirements
• Act as the subject matter expert for Murex suite of tools used within Front Office and ensuring that all
functionality of the product are installed and leveraged to its best capability within the group
• Creation of test plan, test cases, execution of system testing
• Contribute to the User Training activities, through one-to-one discussion, preparation of user training guides
& presentations
• Follow up with vendor support as and when necessary to resolve bugs/issues
• Ensure technical and functional hand over of the project and changes to the relevant teams
• Assist in developing business and operational processes and to participate in developing system training
artefacts.
Experience:
• Minimum 5 years of experience as Murex Front office Business Analyst
• Extensive experience in setting up and validating Interest rate curves including for ARRs
• Expertise in multiple asset classes (atleast 2 of the following) such as IR vanilla and exotic derivatives,
Equity Derivatives, Commodity Derivatives , FX Derivatives, Structured Derivatives etc.
• Expertise in terms of pricing, valuation, risk management and sensitivities including for exotic products
• Strong exposure to FO Modules of Murex – E-Tradepad, Simulation, Livebook, RTPM, Structured Bonds
Module, Pre-Trade Workflow, Market Data, Dynamic Tables, P&L Notepad, FDI Templates, Blotters, Risk
Matrices etc.
• Exposure on Flex API, Pricing API, VaR (MRA/MRB), xVA modules will be an added advantage
• Flex API development skills is an advantage (debugging and compiling libraries in C++, interfacing with
REST APIs, …)
• Experience in leading and delivering projects
• Experience in implementation and supporting Murex v3.1 with regards to front office capabilities
• Excellent knowledge of Capital Markets products and processes, front to back.
• Experience on implementation of both linear and non-linear products in Murex
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills accompanied with excellent communication