ITD Business Analyst
Halian
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Ref: KP410-04
Halian

The Role


The Role


A leading investment bank in the Middle East has kicked off a Greenfield Murex 3.1 Project across FX, MM, FI and Interest Rate Derivatives with a plan to cover all asset classes in the foreseeable future. This initiative is a full front to back implementation, with Murex being the chosen enterprise solution for all trading activity.

There is a need to build up the project team in-house, with an immediate requirement for a Senior Business Analyst with extensive experience and in-depth knowledge of the Murex Technology platform.
The candidate will work within the IT Department but will form part of a project team consisting of workstream leaders and business analysts, developers and consultants through the full lifecycle of the project.

Key Skills:
• 6+ years experience working on Murex the technical Implementation of Murex projects working both supporting functional deliveries as well as with technical configurations
• Experience of Mx 3.x is highly desirable and experience of MLC would be advantageous
• Knowledge of the Murex Data Model (MDM) and with configuring the MDM as well as with the Datamart with making schema updates and changes
• Experience having worked for or at a top 10 global Investment banks in either North America or Europe as well as having worked in Emerging Markets
• Knowledge of FX, MM and IRS products, Knowledge of both vanilla derivatives as well of the more structure products is required across the above asset classes
• Significant and specific experience working on IT Projects implementing Transactions processing, Middle office P&L & Risk reporting as well with Settlements and Cash Management operations is required
• Experience with structured test planning and execution, developing test scripts and expected results and carrying testing through to final go-live
• Experience working on project Migrating from legacy systems to new platforms and with the Data quality and conversion testing required
• Candidates will be required to have both undergraduate and post graduate qualifications
• Candidates with experience working in the IT department of an Investment bank would be considered more favorably

Requirements


Requirements


Responsibilities:
• Provide support for the IT Project Manager/Lead
• Validation of business reporting requirements from End Users and from Business unit aligned BA’s
• Responsible for the production of Reporting functional designs, for the identification of reporting extract data requirements and for liaison with FO and BO BA’s as well as with the IT Reporting delivery teams
• Key coordination and liaison from ITD with FO, MO and Operations work streams
• Responsible for the development of the Systems Integration (SIT) and Data Conversion Test plan, creation of test cases and test scripts and for their execution before release of the system for final UAT testing
• Responsible for the Cutover coordination and for the required Data quality improvements by specifying required Reconciliation to be performed prior to conversion
• Will provide ’On-the-Job Training’ to existing technology staff and transfer all necessary knowledge acquired during the life of the project to staff

About the Company


About the Company


Halian is a specialist Information Technology Services Company with an envious track record of reducing IT costs and delivering business results fast for our clients worldwide. Our strength is not only in our peoples’ information technology skills, but also through our extensive, knowledge, and experience of Oracle, Sun and Microsoft technology.

Founded in 1996, Halian is an IT services company with a strong delivery track record, and our clients include large enterprises in financial services, telecommunications, and media sectors operating in the UK, Europe and USA.

The experience we have gained means that we can help you to reduce your information technology costs, increase IT systems performance, and free up your internal IT resource to focus on your core business activities. Our management team has many years experience and industry knowledge of providing professional IT services.

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