A top European Investment Bank is currently looking to recruit a highly experienced Excel/VBA Developer to work as part of Derivatives IT within Emerging Markets IT (EMG IT). EMG IT business deals across multiple asset classes, namely bonds, FX, interest rate, credit and derivatives in markets across tens of emerging market countries across 8 locations.

The primary duties of this role is to work with Traders, Analytics, Product Control and Risk Management teams on the ongoing development of the strategic risk platforms for the Emerging Markets business and a new business-critical global application for Derivatives. Successful candidates will be responsible for acting as business analyst and developer in support of the trading desk:

Main responsibilities will include:

• Assisting in the integration of the new framework into the strategic front office trading systems
• Working alongside the traders, product controllers and EMG developers to understand the impact of migrating existing trading spreadsheets to use the new framework and to develop new diagnostics and analytics tools
• Supporting current production trading books and applications
• Liaison with the Emerging Markets trading desk to understand complex business problems and business requirements for a variety of ongoing business-driven enhancements
• Understand the current applications and business processes, identify extensions and new functionality
• Carrying out development efforts utilizing a wide variety of technologies on systems and feeds between spreadsheets, front office data stores, and back office channels
• Dealing with urgent trader requests and issue resolution
• Investigation into trade positions and analysis of the valuation models

Successful candidates will have strong design and development skills in Excel/VBA and C# within a Front Office Investment Banking environment (preferably on a risk system).