ION SME

Harvey Nash Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey Nash Group in London is seeking an experienced Fixed Income ION Trading specialist to join a world class banking environment in the City. You will provide L3 support across Fixed Income, coordinate with stakeholders globally, and drive changes across proprietary and vendor platforms to optimise performance.

The role requires strong knowledge of ION components, Fixed Income products, Linux platforms, and experience with Bloomberg TOMS and Tradeweb Viewer.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience supporting a live ION Trading environment with live market connectivity for Rates, Credit or Swaps desks.
• Strong experience providing technical support for Fixed Income Desks within an Investment Bank.
• Strong experience working with both project team & users.
• General understanding of financial markets and products, in particular Fixed Income & Rates.
• Strong trouble shooting experience within the ION environment.
• Familiarity with Bloomberg TOMS for trade & position management.
• Understanding & prior experience of full end to end cycle for quoting, trading, electronic trade confirmations, settlement, P&L valuations.

Responsibilities

• Working with key stakeholders globally to provide trading solutions
• Coordination, planning, and execution of changes across proprietary systems, vendor platforms and third-party components supporting the Fixed Income desk
• Demonstrating a strong focus on identifying and implementing process enhancements to optimise system performance and elevating user experience
• Providing deskside L3 ION/e-trading support (and remote where appropriate) across Fixed Income including trading/sales desks, back-office and ION platform
• Providing L3 support to the production Fixed Income trade flow from execution on market to downstream systems, including BBG TOMS and back-office systems
• Liaising with other teams in supporting
• add-on

Skills

ION Trading

Fixed Income

Linux

Sybase TCL

Transact SQL

Bloomberg TOMS

JIRA

Trading platforms

MarkitWire

Excel VBA

Tools

Bloomberg TOMS

Tradeweb Viewer

JIRA

Job description

Fantastic opportunity to join a world class banking environment, based in the City of London.

Primary Responsibilities

• Working with key stakeholders globally to provide trading solutions
• Coordination, planning, and execution of changes across proprietary systems, vendor platforms and third-party components supporting the Fixed Income desk
• Demonstrating a strong focus on identifying and implementing process enhancements to optimise system performance and elevating user experience
• Providing deskside L3 ION/e-trading support (and remote where appropriate) across Fixed Income including trading/sales desks, back-office and ION platform
• Providing L3 support to the production Fixed Income trade flow from execution on market to downstream systems, including BBG TOMS and back-office systems
• Liaising with other teams in supporting "add-on" functionality & up/downstream process flows for the Fixed Income Trading Desk. (e.g. Trade flows, end of day position marking etc.)
• Systems configuration: Follow set procedures to configure supported applications according to approved functional requirements. These requirements may form part of the project implementation, or may be part of production support
• Maintenance of PRD & DR environment: Be responsible for the working state of PRD & DR environments, ensuring they are fit for use

Experience

• Extensive experience supporting a live ION Trading environment with live market connectivity for Rates, Credit or Swaps desks with access to trading venues such as MTS, Brokertec, , Bloomberg, Tradeweb, MarketAxess, iSwap, Tradition & EUREX.
• Strong experience providing technical support for Fixed Income Desks within an Investment Bank.
• Strong experience working with both project team & users.
• General understanding of financial markets and products, in particular Fixed Income & Rates.
• Strong trouble shooting experience within the ION environment
• Familiarity with Bloomberg TOMS for trade & position management
• Understanding & prior experience of full end to end cycle for quoting, trading, electronic trade confirmations, settlement, P&L valuations.

Technical Knowledge/Skills

• Technical knowledge of ION components:
  • Platform
  • MMI
  • MDATA
  • Pricing (PXE)
  • Connectivity
  • Ticketing, Position, & Risk
  • Trading Tools
  • RFP Gateways/STP Server
  • VMO/VMQ
• Strong knowledge of:
  • Fixed Income financial products
  • Bond Pricing
  • Hedging
  • Market connectivity & STP
  • Refdata
  • MarkitWire
  • SWM \ FPML_Converter
• Strong knowledge of working on Linux Platforms.
• Intermediate knowledge of Sybase + TCL scripting.
• Basic knowledge of Transact SQL, Excel, and VBA
• Experience in using Bloomberg TOMS & Tradeweb Viewer for trade entry
• Use of JIRA
• Testing Experience