Description
About our client
Our Client operates in the Financial Services Industry, with its headquarters rooted strongly in Singapore. It has its branches spread to more than 15 countries, providing employment to more than 25,000 people all over the world. They fall in the Forbes Global 2000 (2022). Their core business is to offer financial services to its clients, ranging from Investment Banking to Corporate as well as Personal Banking Services.. They are also well known for their Residential Home Loan Business.
Job description
Responsibilities:
- The person to lead and drive the day-to-day activities that are part of SA stream, working closely with various internal stakeholders, internal technology teams as well as the vendor.
- As Murex ERM consultant, will be part of application development team for Murex VaR module
- Work with different IT teams across infrastructure, and other divisions to deliver system solutions for the business.
- Build a strong relationship and manage expectations with users and stake holders.
- Oversee SA pool and align team (including any system enhancements and upgrades) to meet project’s requirements within allocated budget and schedule.
- Plan, monitor and manage risks/issues related to Functional delivery.
- Take ownership of any issues that may impact the delivery quality and timeline.
- Provide status update related to technical delivery to TDM/Project Manager (PM)/ Program Manager.
- Own the delivery plan. Escalate issues that impacts project schedule on timely basis and propose workarounds/resolutions. Follow up on the proposed solution and fix the problem
- Manage stakeholders throughout the duration of the role. Ensure project governance is adhered to, any changes are documented and approved
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or similar domain
- Related professional/technical qualification will be advantageous although not mandatory
- 6-9 Years of experience in Murex Market risk Domain (VaR, Greeks, Sensitivities Stress-testing and attribution of Risk P&L)
- Deep understanding of Murex VaR module (historical simulation, back testing, PL VaR)
- The ideal candidate should be a senior analyst with team management & stakeholder management skills with experience in trading/Risk system support/development.
- Experience in major upgrade project in Risk domain.
- Experience in creating test cases Mx.3 version
- Experience in MRA is required
- Familiarity with MRE is required.
- Good understanding of Murex VaR DataModel
- Deep understanding of Greeks and sensitivities and trade attributes commonly used for Market Risk calculations
- Fluent in using simulations and viewers
- Strong business domain knowledge in Global Markets and Group Risk
- Experience in communicating with functional and technical stakeholders
- Experience in banking industry preferred
- Experience in implementing large-scale, highly available applications or another large project implementation
- Experience in service-oriented technologies
- Proven result-oriented person with a focus on delivery
- Experience in actual systems development work, with prior coding, functional specifications and technical specifications and systems development and testing experience
- Good understanding and experience in software development cycle
- Highly effective communicating with technical stakeholders, proficient communicating with non-technical stakeholders
- Good problem solving, analytical, synthesis, system thinking and solutioning skills