Trading Solutions Job Description
Trading solutions
provides technical support for the Institutional and Fixed Income Trading/Sales and Equity Capital Markets departments.
Trading Solutions Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Officers, and Middle Office professionals at Buy-Side firms and Hedge funds
Project a professional company image through in-person and phone interaction with firm employees firm clients
Calendar maintenance for three Global Managers
Provide meeting support as necessary
Prepare monthly financial reports that evaluate budget/outlook to actual performance
Recommend adjustment to forecast as required
Perform financial/statistical modeling and analysis with ability to work with large amounts of data and multiple scenarios
Work on developing weekly/monthly sales trends and analyses
Develop various tools/analyses to evaluate business drivers and understand impact on revenue and expenses
Work with management reporting team to develop dashboard/performance reports
Trading Solutions Qualifications
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Education for Trading Solutions
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Employers hiring for the trading solutions job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Education, Mathematics, Business, Associates, Accounting, Business/Administration
Skills for Trading Solutions
Desired skills for trading solutions include:
Advanced trading strategies
Shell scripting
Active trader products/services/software
Active trading/options competitive landscape and a good understanding of the needs of active traders
Equity/option markets
Technical analysis
Complex products and apply software test techniques for rapid production releases
FIX Protocol
Fixed Income & Currencies markets
Regulatory environment and key regulatory regimes
Desired experience for trading solutions includes:
Experience in writing different algorithms for testing purposes
Able to work productively in native Linux, Windows and Solaris environment
Knowledge of technical basics in algorithmic trading is a plus
Good knowledge of C and C++
Must have interest in full software development lifecycle
Previous experience in Games, Telecoms, Defence is welcome
Trading Solutions Examples
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a trading solutions. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for trading solutions
- Identify requirements for enhancements to existing systems
- Manage and maintain a project plan with standard performance KPI
- Negotiate FIX engineering FTE resources for duration of project
- Delegate and manage FTE resourcing workloads / risk of delivery
- Setup documentation for project customers
- Conduct post-project satisfaction reviews with internal / external customers
- Supervise the Project Management Office, tracking and providing statuses for all firm initiatives
- Lead project management functions for all initiatives
- Strong project management skills and ability to collaborate effectively across large, multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience working with Engineering department in a collaborated effort to achieve goals
Qualifications for trading solutions
- Solid understanding of OS concepts, multithreading and multitasking
- Good knowledge of UNIX is strongly desired
- Solid understanding of software design principles and methodologies
- Experience with release & configuration management systems
- Good understanding of distributed systems is strongly desired
- Working knowledge of derivatives is a big plus
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of trading solutions. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for trading solutions
- Maintain and develop automated testing of data feeds, various message structures
- Partner with QA analyst team to commit manual test cases into regression
- Create automated test scripts to verify data structures, data values, data formats, and basic performance (file comparisons)
- Collaborate and partner closely with QA Leads and Development teams to understand data feeds, data flows, data structures, and applications
- Administer and maintain all automation scripts and review all product changes
- Prepare schedules for all test activities and document all bug issues for database and implement all test scripts for various projects
- Monitor automation processes and prepare defect status reports
- Coordinate with developers to provide efficient feedback on release quality
- Analyze current inventory of regression scripts and rectify inefficiencies
- Support all aspects of our proprietary automation tool, coordinating with engineering teams on software changes and strategically address
Qualifications for trading solutions
- Desire to learn the financial domain is essential
- Business proficiency in other languages used in Asia Pacific, such as Mandarin or Japanese, will be advantageous
- Interest in the financial industry & markets
- Desire to learn about the trade lifecycle and usage of an Order Management System
- Keen interest in developing knowledge of financial securities contained in fixed income, equities & derivatives classes
- Fluency in European language(s) beneficial
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of trading solutions. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for trading solutions
- Be organized and have ability to break down complex product specifications, collaborate with QA Analysts, Product and Engineering teams, and proactively harness and automate critical test scenarios, and automate manual tests
- Maintain relationships with existing users through trainings, floor walks, Web Ex sessions
- Working with clients, internal stakeholders and multiple internal groups to drive product delivery to commercial effect
- Execution Advisory – work closely with clients to optimise and improve their trading performance
- Algorithmic product delivery – focussed on converting client feedback into relevant requirements for algos
- Assists with the creation and structuring of tailored financing solutions to address financing needs of borrower clients in the EMEA region
- Liaises with internal groups such as Market Risk, Accounting, Tax, Middle Office in connection with the execution of prospective deals
- Assist in identifying and assessing key risks (including market risk, strategic risk, credit risk, reputational risk)
- Calculates returns on transactions to assesses relative value and profitability
- Performs credit analysis for potential transactions (including working on cash flow modelling) for inclusion in CRM approval memos
Qualifications for trading solutions
- Ba/Bsc Degree in Computing/Engineering/Science/Finance/Business or related fields or relevant Work experience
- Abilities in at least one Procedural Programming Language (Javascript/C#/Java/VB for example)
- Understanding of common message formats (XML, CSV, FIX)
- Experience using Unix / Windows
- Must be willing to work with C/C++
- Experience in compliance or a compliance related role
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a trading solutions. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for trading solutions
- Works on internal and external presentations
- Deal with clients across the region and offer support to Sales teams
- You will do template design and implementation
- Initiate UAT process and ensure its completion with users
- Contact point for TH template business partners (FO users, TS users, different IT platforms, Legal)
- You would assess the individual project components and provide an estimate
- Coordinate all internal communications, such as the discussion among the developers on the direction of template developments
- Identify, standardise, and improve the template development process
- Understand the risks of products and liaise with FO on the standard methodology of booking/booking methodology
- Get along with a diverse set of business partners to ensure business is serviced at an appropriate level
Qualifications for trading solutions
- Extensive, demonstrable knowledge of EMEA regulatory system, MiFID II and familiarity of FCA regulations
- Track record of interacting with industry and ESMA or CA regulators
- Ability to be able to multi-task and work effectively with others at all levels across an organization including the C-suite
- Extraordinary problem-solving, decision making, analytical skills
- Desire to succeed in a demanding, innovative, entrepreneurial environment
- Frequent travel to continental Europe and Asia will be required
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a trading solutions. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for trading solutions
- Take care of clients across the region and offer support to Sales teams dealing with client issues and requests
- Take a leadership role in the implementation of Electronic Trading Solutions projects, focusing on Consultancy --> workflow workshops, Customer Requirements Gathering, workflow analysis, design of Solutions Architectures, Solutions integration, systems configuration, systems installation, training and Quality Assurance
- The role would require to provide core integration skills mentioned below to projects in other domains such as Risk/Compliance, Legal, Tax Solutions
- Follow/support Project/Program management practices for small/medium projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget and in line with customer expectations
- Develop into Subject Matter Expert in customer business workflows and related solutions packages and products, providing Treasury domain expertise to our customers relative to solution propositions
- Drive, follow or evolve implementation practices in GGO Technology
- Support clients with the use of the Execution Management System to manage their daily trading activities including order routing and execution, market data delivery and back-office services
- Manage broker-driven projects related to order routing, algorithmic trading, broker connectivity and the on-boarding of new brokers
- Execute high-touch coverage assignments for our Enterprise and Strategic multi-broker buy-side institutional clients
- Perform order routing and Order Management System certifications, and complex FIX configurations
Qualifications for trading solutions
- Enthusiasm for client service
- Interest in Trading
- Available to work between 27 June 2016 to 2 September 2016
- Must have experience technical project managing a customer integration across several months
- 3-years' experience in a level 2 support role responsible for delivering FIX services
- 6-years' total experience in a level 2 support role with a global focus on integration application support for a variety of customer sizes