SmartTrade BA, Johannesburg at Luxoft

Project Description
The candidate will be expected to join a newly created Luxoft practice which is experiencing significant growth and be assigned to work with well known banks and brokerage houses to carry out a front to back review of how FX trades feed in from brokers and institutional clients via emarkets platforms and industry liquidity providers including Bloomberg and Reuters together with understanding all systems the current implementation connects to (limit management, pre trade checks, good to trade and KYC) as well as downstream consumers with a view to replace and update the FX trading system by integration of a new liquidity trading system provider.

Responsibilities
Integrate fx trading platform into client infrastructure

This role will be client based role working in a small group of business and technologists and the candidate will have a chance to shape the evolution and integration of a major new platform into the bank. The candidate will be provided with mentoring and initial training but is expected to hit the ground running and navigate large corporates to make an impact from day 1

Skills
Must have

• Systems analysis and project management
• A good understanding of fx spot pricing and risk management (not from a quant point of view) but from a trading, execution, liquidity aggregation and risk management point of view
• More specifically from a technology integration point of view and working with vendors to replace an existing FX trading system and introduce a new one and dealing with stakeholders and sponsors to alert them with areas of complexity and where decisions and optionality exists

Nice to have

• Experience of working in a front office demanding environment where perseverance and determination is valued
• Someone with a resilient attitude who is flexible in how projects are approached
• Knowledge of working with technology vendors and outsourced teams as well would be of interest

Languages
English: C2 Proficient