Functional BA

Project Description:Join a key initiative delivering a cutting-edge trading platform for a leading North American hedge fund. This project offers a unique opportunity to gain exposure to a variety of financial products while building hands-on experience with a modern trading platform.

You will be part of the Business-as-Usual (BAU) support team, contributing to ongoing development and testing activities that support the platform's continuous expansion.

As part of this role, you will join our Orchestrade Practice—an open-minded, collaborative, and forward-thinking team. This environment provides an excellent platform to enhance both your functional and soft skills, while deepening your expertise in the capital markets industry.

About the Platform - Orchestrade:

• Built on .NET (C#)

• Native integration with Excel

• Supports a wide range of asset classes and workflows

Responsibilities:

• Support daily BAU activities and production issues (L1-L3)

• Respond to use issues / incidents / request on multiple domains, with a strong focus on Functional elements of Orchestrade

• Resolve daily FO issues on both functional, valuation, and pricing

• Resolve daily issues stemming from multiple trading desks (must)

• Work closely and address issues from Traders (L3)

• Amend pre-trade rules, pricing tools

• Resolve Pre-deal origination workflow and post execution monitoring and life-cycle management

• Dedicated workflow, configuration of the platform, supporting business

• Resolve request or issues with P&L, Market Data, and booking issues

• Analyze, formulate, proposed, develop and/or contribute to overall solutions as per PROD Support deliverables

• Liaise with technical team(s) -- when needed -- to resolve Functional related issues and necessary enhancements

• Yield Curve issue resolution and validation; curve assignments; new curve creation

• Continuous follow-up of new Market regulations/practices globally

• Perform various levels of testing for assigned deliverables as well as participate in formal release cycles (SIT/UAT)

• Manage day-to-day assigned project tasks to complete various deliverables

• When required, develop Functional Business requirements per given stream and according to Project needs as they come along

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 3 years of hands on experience on Orchestrade OR Murex OR Calypso

• Capital Market experience with strong cross-products knowledge

• Strong knowledge of Financial products and their trade lifecycle

• Excellent analytical skills, understanding of project life cycles, and ability to act in an entrepreneurial manner to ensure the requirements from the business are gathered in the appropriate manner.

• Proven analytical, planning, problem solving and decision-making skills

• Comfortable with direct communication with all levels of technical and business resources

• Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously

• Experience with working in a highly collaborative and dynamic multi-team environment

• Experience in writing user stories and working with JIRA /similar tools.

• System Integration and User Acceptance testing

• Must have attention to details; have the ability to work independently and also as part of a group

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Experience of Agile practices and processes (e.g. SCRUM, KANBAN)

• Ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment is essential

• Have a willingness to learn new skills and do whatever is necessary to "get the job done" attitude

• Basic Technical skills: SQL, UNIX, and .NET knowledge