Senior Murex Finance Engineer at Luxoft Toronto, ON

Senior Murex Finance Engineer job at Luxoft. Toronto, ON.

Project Description

DXC Luxoft has one of the world's leading Murex practices. We are a top-tier Murex Alliance Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade, and migration. We provide end-to-end project services and have delivered over 200 successful Murex projects across all major asset classes and sectors including investment banking, asset management, corporate treasury, and insurance.

Whether you possess a background in finance, technology, or Mathematics, your experience in the capital markets industry would be of high interest to us.

Responsibilities

Junior:

What you'll do:

•Advising on Murex best practices in the P&L processes, position management, accounting, hedge accounting and financial reporting.

•Contributing to client-site MX.3 implementations during the requirements gathering, design, build, test, and deployment phases by participating in workshops, preparing documentation, configuring client requirements and performing quality assurance tests.

•Providing client support including managing open issues and supporting upgrade activities.

•Communicating development needs to the Murex product development team

•Providing internal and external training.

Who you are:

•Ideal candidate is someone with 2-3 years' experience in capital markets technology.

•The candidate should have a good understanding of accounting principles under IFRS or US GAAP. Knowledge of hedge accounting is a plus.

•Preferable experience includes supporting either trading, treasury or accounting at banks or other financial institutions or has experience with other fintech vendors.

•Strong academic background in accounting, engineering or a math-based discipline (math, operations research, statistics etc.)

•Knowledge of Unix/Linux operating system, SQL, and basic programming is a plus.

Senior:

What you'll do:

•Advising on Best Practices: Provide guidance on Murex best practices in P&L processes, accounting, hedge accounting, position management, and financial reporting.

Client-Site Implementations: Lead all trading designers during an implementation or upgrade; gathering, design, build, test, and deployment phases by participating in workshops, preparing documentation, configuring client requirements, and performing quality assurance tests.

•Client Support: Manage open issues and support upgrade activities.

•Communication: Handle the relationship with the product team in one area of expertise and assist in building the product roadmap for the region.

•Documentation and Training: Provide internal and external documentation and training

Who you are:

•Experience: The ideal candidate has more than 5 years of experience in capital markets technology. Proven client-facing experience in a support or project implementation role, preferably in trading or risk management solutions in financial institutions.

•Academic Qualifications: Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a master's in financial engineering, Applied Finance/Statistics/Mathematics, or Computational Finance.

•Problem-Solving: Systematic problem solver with critical thinking abilities.

•Communication: Strong presenter and effective communicator.

•Technical Skills: Knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems, SQL, and basic programming.

Skills Description

• Good product knowledge/understanding in IRD, CRD, COM, EQD, FXD, FXMM

• Good understanding of accounting principals, accounting rules, ledger, and account balances

• Good working knowledge of Murex Accounting knowledge

• Strong understanding of Back Office functions as well as processing

• Strong functional and technical understanding on the settlement instructions

• Good knowledge of the different post-trade interactions between the various actors of capital markets including service providers

• Good understanding of OSP (open settlement protocol - Open Settlement Protocol (OSP) is a client-server protocol that manages access control, accounting, usage data and inter-domain routing to make it easier for Internet service providers (ISPs) to support IP telephony), Workflows, Operations, Fixings process, Confirmations, and Trade Life Cycle

Must:

• 2+ years' experience with Murex

• Must have strong personality, logical and analytical skills

• Be detailed-oriented, a quick learner and self-starter

• Possess good verbal and written communication skills

• Must have strong organization skills

• Strong SQL, Unix , Scripting , Sybase and Oracle skills be of high interest to us.