Equities Trade Floor Support - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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Description

Responsibilities:


  • Work with Front Office Traders and investment professionals to culminate business requirements
  • Solve real time trading issues and make suitable judgement calls on operational risk
  • Help with deployment, checkout and QA testing of connectivity with counterparties
  • Manage connectivity to the street whilst working closely with brokers to certify new sessions and troubleshoot live trading issues with brokers
  • Work in conjunction with backoffice teams to remedy issues related to security setup, trade booking, corporate actions, price breaks and bookkeeping entries.

Requirements:


  • 510 years of work experience in a relevant area
  • Bachelors Degree (or above) in Engineering or Computer Science or a related field
  • Knowledge of trading and / or risk systems
  • Experience with Unix, Linux
  • Experience onboarding and certifying new connections to counterparties
  • Knowledge of working with parsing exchange provided security information
  • Proficiency in shell scripting language
  • Knowledge of FIX and binary protocols
  • Experience with databases such as Sybase or SQL
  • Understanding of trading workflows
  • DMA, Algo, SOR
  • Ability to communicate with technical and nontechnical colleagues alike (written and verbal)
  • Passionate about solving investment business problems using technology and fundamentals
  • Proficient context switcher in fastpaced, mission critical environments
  • Detailoriented approach to solving problems
  • Strong work ethic

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