Lead Senior Consultant - Front Arena
Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At our Hedge Fund client you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology.
Talented people empower the team, and they believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.
About the team:
Front Arena is a global platform that helps manage trading, risk, sales and operation's needs. From cross-asset risk, electronic trading and over the counter (OTC) derivatives trading to name a few, the global suite of Front Arena solutions helps businesses remain competitive in the trading industry.
Front Arena delivers real-time electronic trading and position control across multiple asset classes and business lines, integrating sales and distribution, trading and risk management, and settlement accounting.
What you will be doing:
As a Lead Senior Consultant within the Front Arena Professional Services team you will taking a leading role in implementing and upgrading the Front Arena product suite with the Hedge Fund/Asset Manager.
You will become an industry expert within the electronic trading industry and will consult with our clients both from a Technical and a Functional perspective
Key duties include:
- Engage with the client, in order to understand their overall requirements and advise how the system can best be configured to meet those requirements
- Works individually or within a team on technology business consulting projects to meet specific client requirements.
- Consults directly with the client, and will work with the client to configure and customize licensed modules and deliver training as required
- Acts as team leader for all aspects of consulting projects including leading sub-plans or projects. Will mentor, guide, advise and / or check work of less experienced business systems analysts and technology business consultants.
- Develop a thorough understanding of the fundamental modules within Front Arena
- Provide continual feedback to the project manager promptly highlighting any potential issues to allow a pro-active solution to be offered
- Responsible for identifying opportunities where additional services beyond the core implementation tasks may be offered, and work closely with your line management to pursue the opportunity
- Working with large-scale financial applications and configuring the code and database as required. This process will involve the coding of customised functionality and creation of ad-hoc code for database manipulation
What you bring:
- Awareness of the full IT project life cycle, from development through to testing and implementation to go live
- Programming experience in an OO language
- Experience in a software vendor, consultancy organisation or financial institution
- Enterprise level technology implementation projects
Added bonus if you have:
- Financial services industry experience
What we offer you:
- A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
- A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities
- The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial services & technology
- A broad range of professional education and personal development opportunities
- A work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respect
- Varied and challenging work to help you grow your technical skill set
CLOSING DATE: 09/03/2020
To find out more about Huxley, please visit www.huxley.com
Huxley, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 1st Floor, 75 King William Street, London, EC4N 7BE, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148 England and Wales
