To work with OpenLink’s customers, financial consultants and software engineers to conceptualize, analysz and design financial market enhancements to OpenLink’s trading, risk management and back office software.

TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
 

• To assess the marketplace, via existing or potential clients and to identify functional gaps within the application.
• To perform cost/benefit analysis to identify enhancements for consideration for existing or potential clients.
• Expected to have extensive knowledge about financial markets such as Fixed Income, Interest Rate Derivatives, Equities, Money Markets, Precious Metals, FX, Credit Derivatives, Back Office Operations.
• Knowledge of other financial trading, risk management, and back office software systems is preferred.
• To convert user requirements and functional gaps into detailed software functional specifications that will be written using structured analysis and design techniques consistent with our technical architecture.
• Work closely with the software developers to ensure that enhancements are implemented in a proper and consistent manner.
• Consult with clients to demonstrate how the system functionality can satisfy their business requirements.
• Support sales efforts by performing demos, workshops and responding to RFI/RFPs.
• Document major enhancements to the software, to be used by the Documentation team in the creation of user guides.
• Create test plans for major enhancements to the software, to be used by the QA team for future regression testing.
• Provide internal training classes on existing and new functionality
• The role involves traveling to Europe and the USA (approx 25%).
• Excellent interpersonal communications
• Problem solving
• Good written and presentation skills

Required Skills:
 

• 2 years experience within the financial markets (back, middle, or front office)
• Extensive knowledge of some or all of the following markets – Interest Rate Derivatives, Fixed Income, Money Markets, Equities, Precious Metals, FX or Credit Derivatives.
• Strong math or quantitative background
• Experience in designing a trading/risk management/back office software package
• Credit and market risk knowledge a plus
• Technical/specification writing
• First degree in business, finance, math or computers
• Second degree or masters in second discipline an advantage.
• Knowledge of standard messaging services such as SWIFT desirable
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications (e.g. EXCEL, WORD)
• Understanding of relational databases (e.g. Microsoft Access, Sybase, Oracle) and SQL
• Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++/VB/Java