My client, a leading, global Tier 1 Bank is looking for a contractor to join their team for a rolling 6 month contract paying up to £600/day, based in London, Canary Wharf. * Analyse & capture functional & non-functional requirements for Finance and/or Product Control's long-term (strategic) and short-term projects. * Prepare formal functional design document to meet the application and integration requirements and obtain signoffs * Deliver quality documentation covering different aspects of software development lifecycle (SDLC) including functional specification, architecture and detailed design where required. * Support the users during UAT and ensure issues and defects are logged, tracked and successfully resolved. * Understand the system data flows from Primary Trading systems to target Back Office Systems * Work closely with business analysts, users and system developers to define data sources and detailed business rules for P&L, Accounting and Regulatory Reporting systems * Develop proof-of-concept or prototypes to help crystallise business rules, processes and functions * Seek opportunities to make the Finance's business processes more effective and efficient across business lines and regions * Review and manipulate trade and market data to understand the variety of scenarios that need to be catered for and prepare test packs * Build good working relationships with other IT departments and relevant business areas * Liaise with development teams and business users in London Key Skills: -Sybase or MS SQL and T-SQL with performance tuning. Ideally Sybase. -Enterprise Java development experience with JSP, Servlet, Web Services, Web Frameworks like Struts. -Unix -Software Development Lifecycle -Experience with one or more application servers, preferably Websphere 7.x -Experience in capturing, analysing and documenting functional & non-functional requirements -Good working knowledge of financial products and derivatives across interest rate, FX, credit and/or equity businesses and ideally specialising in one of them. Ideal Skills (nice-to-have) -Understanding of Product Control, Finance and/or Regulatory processes and workflow -Broad knowledge of financial products and derivatives including Rates, FX and Equities -Working knowledge of XML -Experience working with an industry standard version control/software configuration management system preferably RTC or SVN -Exposure to Actimize AIS and RCM Apply ASAP Key Words: Java, Sybase, Developer, UNIX, JSP, Servlet, Web Services, Struts, Web Frameworks, Database, Performance Tuning, Java, Enterprise Java Development, Programmer, Product Control, Finance IT, Banking, Contract To find out more about Huxley Associates, please visit
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