Front Office Consultant

Nasdaq; Xico; On-site; MXN 1,673,000 - 2,417,000; Full time

Job summary

Nasdaq is seeking a Front Office/Risk Consultant to join the Client Delivery Front Office team in LATAM, based in Mexico City. The role translates clients’ capital markets requirements into Calypso solutions, configures and tests systems, and guides projects from blueprint to go-live.

You will collaborate with global clients and cross‑functional teams, train users on the system, and help identify gaps for product enhancements. Strong Spanish and English are required; Portuguese is a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience in capital markets domains including FX, FI/MM, IRD, and derivatives.
• Ability to translate client requirements into configurations.
• Strong written and spoken communication in Spanish and English.

Responsibilities

• Gather and map client capital markets requirements to CSRM functions and processes.
• Design, configure, and test Calypso-based solutions to meet business needs.
• Support deployment and validation through go-live and post-implementation phases.
• Identify gaps and coordinate with Product teams to test enhancements.
• Train end-users on system usage, configurations, and new functionality.

Skills

FX & Derivatives

Risk Methodologies

Product Valuation

Spanish/English bilingual

Job description

Team and Role Overview

We are currently seeking a Front Office/Risk Consultant to join our Client Delivery Front Office team in LATAM based in Mexico City. The Client Delivery Front office/Risk team is composed of experienced financial professionals who provide professional delivery solutions for our clients around the world. Team members are responsible for understanding clients’ business requirements into the capabilities of the Calypso software, responding to a wide variety of methodology and financial technical questions (FinTech Division). The Front Office/Risk team works closely with other Company Departments to ensure a successful project (Sales, Engineer, Products...

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to gather, scope, and document client capital markets requirements and map them to the Calypso Standard Reference Model (CSRM) functions and processes and, influence them towards adopting our best practice solutions.
• Work hands-on to design, configure, and test the system to ensure that it meets the business requirements wherever is a standard configuration or a deviation from CSRM accelerating the time to market.
• Follow up with the Client’s end-users to validate the solution delivered, achieve signoff, and continue to support various phases such as Blueprint, Foundation, Execution, SIT, UAT, Migration activities, and Go-live in partnership with project managers.
• Identify and raise core product gaps and follow up through our internal process until delivery. During the development of enhancements, the Consultant will work with the Product team or Project technical team to iteratively test enhancements to ensure they will meet business requirements. Finally, the Consultant will assist in deployment and validation by the Client.
• Responsible for training users on the system´s usage, client’s configuration and use cases, and/or new functionality.

Technical Skills

• Strong knowledge and functional experience in support of one or more of the following Asset classes: Foreign Exchange (FX), Fixed Income and Money Market (FI/MM), Interest Rate Derivatives (IRD), FX Derivatives (FXD), Credit Derivatives (CRD), Equities, and Equity Derivatives (EQD), Commodities and Commodity Derivatives (CMD).
• Product valuation
• Risk methodologies knowledge (Market, Counterparty Credit, Liquidity).
• Ability to summarize complex ideas into clear and simple concepts.
• Strong proficiency in written and spoken Spanish and English (Portuguese is desirable).

Functional Skills

• Strategic mindset. Anticipates future trends and implications accurately by considering the multiple factors involved.
• Customer-oriented, able to identify and effectively communicate the requirements and functionalities needed and offered.
• Able to work effectively with different teams.
• Desirable: Understanding Front-To-Back Business Units as an overall process flow.

Human Skills

• Analytical thinking.
• Result Driven.
• Effective communication.
• Team oriented.
• Transparency and accountability

Come as You Are

Nasdaq is an equal opportunity employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.