Senior Trade & Risk Data Analyst - OTC - London - Contract - Financial

SENIOR TRADE & RISK DATA ANALYST - OTC - FINANCIAL - CONTRACT - LONDON EMIR - DODD FRANK - REGULATORY

My client are looking to recruit two technical data analysts to work on a trade and risk data standard for data exchange between organisations using the company platform.

The successful candidate will be comfortable in a dynamic and changeable environment.

EXPERIENCE

We are looking for a candidate who has 5yrs+ proven technical analyst experience in the industry in areas such as:

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Front and Back Office processes include trade capture, trade processing and trade reconciliation.
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Derivatives trading or derivatives Back Office processing
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Financial risk management, risk analytics, risk data
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Financial regulation particularly with respect to EMIR, Dodd-Frank and regulatory reporting
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Central clearing house processing, operations and activities
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Market connectivity and data standards (eg SWIFT, FpML)

EDUCATION

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Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Finance or related area
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Industry certifications a plus

RESPONSIBILITIES

The individual will be responsible for the delivery of a trade and risk technical data standard that will be used for the transmission of large amounts of data.

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Working with Product Managers and Subject Matter Experts to record and refine necessary changes to requirements.
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Working with Vendor analysts and developers to produce detailed requirements.
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Manage the delivery of technical data requirements for a data standard for data exchange
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Ensuring that detailed requirements are recorded in our requirements management system in a manner that can be properly tested.
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Development of the data standard
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Data and XML modelling
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Test data generation, .csv, XML, etc

MANDATORY SKILLS

TECHNICAL

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Excellent data and XML modelling
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Message construction and transmission using industry standards such as SWIFT and FpML
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Experience working on global systems with large data volumes
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Understanding and experience with trade and risk systems
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Batch and Real Time data processing
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Understanding of communications infrastructure

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE

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Financial Products, derivatives, exotics and structured deals
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Risk management, market risk, credit risk and CVA systems
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Settlement processes, IM, VM
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Collateral Management and securities
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Industry standards for data exchange, SWIFT, FpML, etc

BUSINESS ANALYSIS

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Process Modelling (eg BPMN)
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Use Case Modelling or other structured approach for documentation
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Requirements management processes (from elicitation to UAT)

TOOLS

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Datamodelling
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XML modelling
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Version control systems
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Test data generation
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Continuous integration

GENERAL SKILLS

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Self-starter with a strong sense of initiative
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Able to prioritise work in a fast-moving environment
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Experience operating in a global team
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Practical experience of implementation of projects, from inception to go-live
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Excellent communication skills

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Ownership of tasks assigned to ultimate resolution

USEFUL SKILLS

BUSINESS ANALYSIS

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Project Management skills eg Prince
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SDLC and agile development methodologies

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE

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Clearing systems and clearing houses
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Bilateral Margin Process

TOOLS

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Requirements Management