Murex Back Office Consultant

This is a remote position.

Upskills provides expert financial software consulting to investment banks and leading financial institutions in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Europe. With a strong, Front to Back expertise in the cash and derivatives markets, coupled by an in-depth knowledge of financial markets technologies, we provide smart and efficient solutions.
We are seeking Murex Back Office Consultant (Operations) to be based in Canada to work in a client-servicing role to drive one of our client's global system implementations, with key responsibilities given as below: 

• Responsible for the utilization of the Murex Methodology/ Model in the confirmation and matching of transactions, settlements and payments. 
  
• Work directly with customers to scope, gather, review, create and implement their business/ functional requirements. 
  
• Hands-on workflow (MxML) configuration in Murex to manage trade validation, confirmation and events. 
  
• Work with the Murex system and its users to test the implementation, achieve signoff (UAT), and continue to move the system toward go-live. 
  
• Support clients with the development of their own internal project plan, including the identification of key setup and configuration tasks, scope considerations, timeline and scheduling, as well as resource requirements. 
  
• Responsible for training users on basic use of the system, new functionality, etc.
  
• Assist in system integration, data migration and implementation. 
  

• Bachelor or Master Degree, preferably from Financial Engineering, Business Analytics or Computer Science or related discipline.
  
• Minimum 2-5 years of hands-on experience on workflow configuration/ development in Murex to manage trade validation, confirmation and events. Including MxML Exchange, trade flows, confirmation generation, payment flows. 
  
• Strong knowledge and functional experience on various asset classes. E.g. FX MM, IRD, EQD. 
  
• Experience writing functional and business specifications with the ability to map conceptual financial and business elements to practical system capabilities. 
  
• A strong proven track record of client servicing. Understand customer needs and build effective relationships.
  
• Strong time management skills and demonstrable problem solving/analytical skills.