Functional BA (Orchestrade/Murex/Calypso)

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

Skills

Must have

Essentials Skills and Qualifications:

3-5 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 testin

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

Nice to have

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

Other

Languages

English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

Regular