Trade support analyst with capital markets

Luxoft; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 420,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft in Hong Kong seeks an experienced Trader Support professional to join a global team. You will manage readiness of trading and risk platforms, monitor end-to-end transaction flow, and quickly resolve alerts to prevent trade impact.

You will communicate with portfolio managers, traders, and operations, supporting changes and automation efforts. A strong grasp of FIX, databases, and trade lifecycle is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of application support experience.
• Comfortable with Client/server architecture, Linux OS, AWS and knowledge of Kafka messaging / docker containerization.
• Proficiency with Bash; Python or Perl would be beneficial.
• Detailed knowledge of FIX protocol.
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL, MS SQL).
• Good knowledge of trade flow, asset classes and trade life cycle.
• Understanding of PnL calculation inputs would be beneficial but not required.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, proactive attitude.
• Strong verbal/written communication with brokers, exchanges, senior management.

Responsibilities

• Manage trading and risk platform readiness from pre-trading to post-trade and reconciliation.
• Monitor and support end-to-end transaction flow across the trading platform.
• Identify, analyze and correct alerts and issues, or escalate to minimize impact.
• Incident management: communicate incidents and outages to stakeholders and PMs; create PM reports.
• Problem tracking and resolution of problematic issues.
• Communicate with Investment management, Portfolio managers, Operations, Development, Compliance and Infrastructure.
• Support scheduled changes with Development teams.
• Oversee automated processes, scheduling, alerting and reporting.
• Handle user requests: track, review approvals, resolve to closure.
• Identify inefficiencies and drive automation and improved workflows.

Skills

Trader Support

JIRA

Confluence

Tools

Service Desk

Job description

Project Description

Client's application support is responsible for the production systems, including Trading, Post-Trade, and PnL software, environment management, and software deployment. Will work closely with developers, business analysts and infrastructure team members as well as with portfolio managers and traders. The candidate will participate in the release process, ensuring quality software is delivered in a timely manner.

Responsibilities

• Working as part of a Global team ('follow the sun' model), to manage trading and risk platform readiness: pre-trading through to post-trade and reconciliation systems.
• Monitor and support end to end transaction flow across the trading platform.
• Quickly identify, analyze, and correct alerts & issues and/or elevate to minimize trade flow impact and preempt outages
• Incident management: Communicate incidents and outages to key business stake holders and portfolio managers. Create PM reports following established procedures, to identify and track tasks to mitigate future occurrence.
• Problem tracking - identify and steer problematic issues through to resolution.
• Effectively and regularly communicate with Investment management, Portfolio managers, Operations, Development, Compliance and Infrastructure teams.
• Support scheduled changes working with Dev teams.
• Oversee automated processes, scheduled, alerting and regular reporting.
• Manage users' requests / queries: track requests, review approvals, updates, resolution through to closure, etc.
• Identify inefficiencies such as repetitive activities, manual processes and suboptimum tools/workflows to drive continuous improvements via automation and collaboration with internal development teams

Mandatory Skills

• Trader Support

Mandatory Skills Description

• At least 5+ years of application support experience.
• Comfortable with Client / server architecture, Linux OS, AWS and a good working knowledge of Kafka messaging / docker containerization.
• Proficiency with Bash; a scripting language such as Python or Perl would be beneficial.
• Detailed practical knowledge of FIX protocol.
• Experience using relational Databases (eg MySQL, MS SQL).
• Good knowledge of trade flow, asset classes and trade life cycle.
• Understand fundamental concepts with regard to PnL calculation, understanding key data inputs that affect risk views would be beneficial but not required.
• Highly organized, detailed, control oriented, enjoys solving problems and brings in a "take charge" attitude.
• Strong verbal/written communication skills required to support daily interaction with brokers, exchanges, senior management and portfolio managers.
• Ability to articulate complex issues into a high-level summary for senior management.
• Self-motivated individual that takes initiatives and has an ownership & accountability mindset.
• Must show the ability to make quick decisions and establish priorities in a multi-tasking environment.
• Experience with the Atlassian stack (JIRA, Confluence, Service Desk) would be useful.