Senior Equity Trading Support

Toronto  ‐ Onsite
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Purpose
The Senior Equity Trading Support individual will be the primary liaison between the Business Unit / Traders / Technology for Equity Capital Markets - Institutional & Retail Cash, Electronic DMA, Portfolio & Algorithmic Trading related issues.

Main Responsibilities
  • Be the primary Support for Institutional Cash and Electronic Trading desks.
  • Be Primary Lead on outages; managing communication, conference bridges and problem management through to resolution. Tracking of Post Mortems, bug fixes, enhancements etc.
  • Familiar with Trading system design, configuration, research into trading flow breaks and operational issues
  • Monitoring and management of the Trading Applications
  • Manage Business expectations of RBC Development, Infrastructure, UNIX, Networks, PC LAN, and Desktop Support teams
  • Manage war-games & document recovery procedures for faster turn-around & lesser business impact, focussing on staff training and process improvement.
  • Conduct training & knowledge sharing sessions and documentation of all support related information.
  • Support the integration of new releases, bug fixes, patches and configuration changes into production, including post release checks and trader training / notification.
  • Liaison with Trade Surveillance / Compliance for regulatory enquiries.
  • From an applications perspective, if there's an issue, candidate will need to understand the business and look at an application and determine why it's not working. There is a small team that builds the applications, but the resource will need to understand how the trading system works, in terms of theory, detail, etc.


Requirements
  • Bachelors Business/Engineering/Computer or related degree
  • Extensive experience in Financial domain - Equities, Portfolio, DMA, Algorithmic trading/support/ financial technology
  • In-depth knowledge of Canadian or US equity markets
  • * Excellent English communication skills are a must.
  • Team player, ability to multi-task & handle communication in high visibility outage situations
  • FIX Protocol - FIX
  • Knowledge of Perl/Shell Scripting, SQL, UNIX an asset.
  • Knowledge of the following business products:
    • Cash equity trading - especially Fidessa application
    • Portfolio Trading
    • Algorithmic Trading
    • Direct Market Access Trading
    • Operations & Settlements


If interested in this opportunity, please respond to this advert so that we may discuss in further detail.

To find out more about Huxley Associates please visit www.huxley.com
Start date
03/2013
Duration
2 years
From
Huxley Associates
Published at
02.03.2013
Project ID:
498106
Contract type
Freelance
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