Description
In Search of Excellence – also your philosophy for success?
Bosshard & Partner’s business activities follow this guiding principle. The company offers its first-class services to selected top companies in banking, industry, insurance and public sectors. Bosshard & Partner defines its market position in a unique manner in three different IT business segments covering job markets consisting of discerning clients, partners and IT specialists. We are the Preferred Supplier of numerous companies – check our company and open mandates at www.bosspub.ch.
Bosshard & Partner is looking with
Mandate 2217
for an IT Markets Business Analyst with FX Experience
Project environment
The business analysis role for the FX Risk Management system targets the project realisation & implementation phase and the general configuration of the FX-platform Murex as well as enhanced BA support role in the FX sector for the new platform after implementation.
Tasks
• Support & assist FX support team from Business analysis side with profound knowledge of the new FX platform.
• Capture, specify and document business requirements of implementation phase of FX-platform (configuration and customized system adjustments).
• Represent and accompany end-users during UAT, implementation and after go-live.
• Test configured functionality / new features on FXplatform.
• Analyzing & solving business errors on FX-platform.
• Supervise IT ensuring all business critical features are available and properly running.
• To organize UAT’s and to achieve successful UAT signoffs.
• To overview functional testing for new FX-platform releases.
• Act as point of contact for FX business users for on-going requirements.
Technical skills
Absolutely necessary:
• 10+ years post collegiate work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in financial Foreign Exchange industry.
• Experience with FX-platforms (Murex/MX.3).
• Profound Foreign Exchange business knowledge (FX Trading & FX option products).
• Strong understanding of FX cash and FX option trading and its lifecycles.
• Knowledge in Precious Metals and Base Metals trading and lifecycles preferred.
• Adequate FX pricing knowledge (verifying prices of FX products).
• FX related Profit & Loss analytical know how.
• Front to Back FX banking processes with an emphasis on FX trading and middle office.
• Good German skills (verbal).
• Experience in Front office or Back office.
Preferable:
• Ideally, the candidate has FX trading experience or a deep understanding of FX trading procedures.
• Prior working experience with requirement gathering and user acceptance testing.
Soft skills
• Communicator and service-oriented.
• Cooperative and constructive team player.
• Analytical thinking.
• Process-oriented, structured and precise way of working.
Workload: 100% Start Date: 01.03.2014 End Date: 31.12.2014 Workplace: Zurich
Did we gain your interest? Please do not hesitate to contact Mr. Michael Filliger at or