Sydney Investment Banking Contract or Temporary
Our client, a large and diverse financial services firm, is seeking a Capital Markets Trading Support Analyst to join their Sydney office. This role will work with a global production support team responsible for day-to-day production regional support for Capital Markets Brokerage Trading Applications.
This position requires experience with Order Management Systems (OMS), specifically direct experience working in support of an investment banking or capital markets trading floor.
Scope of Work:
The successful candidate will work independently within a global production support team, responsible for day-to-day regional support for Capital Markets Brokerage Trading Applications.
Trading Desk IT Analysts are responsible for 24x7 production support across the globe for various Capital Market applications. This role is part of a global support team in a follow the sun model, supporting business and operational partners and liaising with upstream and downstream application teams.
Key Responsibilities:
* Technical and functional desk support across multiple technologies used by Brokerage Capital Market applications.
* Supporting business and operations partners and clients, and liaising with upstream and downstream application teams.
* Candidates should be available Monday – Friday, along with expectations of escalation from the business and/or team members.
* A good understanding and/or functional expertise in brokerage or any other OMS trading support functions.
* Located in Sydney and work on the trading floor in the Sydney office a minimum of 5 days a week.
The ideal candidates will have excellent communication skills and a solid understanding of various technologies in a financial institution, including trade applications.
Required Skills/Experience:
* Previous financial markets experience required – ideally OMS experience in direct support of a trading team.
* Ability to speak to traders confidently – excellent oral and written communication skills and solid understanding of technologies in financial institutions, including trade applications, required.
* 1-2 years of FIX Protocol experience required.
* Reasonably in-depth functional and/or industry knowledge – Brokerage / Security Finance – required.
* ~3-7 years of work experience in any OMS, ideally Flextrade, highly regarded.
* Experience working in Onsite/Offshore models, in particular supporting APAC, UK, and US business lines.
* Experience in incident management, understanding of ticket workflows and use of escalation. Experience with ServiceNow/ITIL Methodologies is mandatory.
* Highly flexible and adaptable to change with Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
* Problem resolution in an analytical and logical manner, to troubleshoot root cause and resolve production incidents.
This position will pay a high hourly rate of $80 – 95 per hour (including super) dependent on prior experience. Successful candidates will be employed as an on-site contractor via Anton Murray Consulting on-site with our client.