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Summary:
In your role as Equities Support Analyst . Derivatives you will sit within the Global Markets Equities Front Office IT team providing application platform support to the Equities Front office in Tokyo, Japan. This English speaking position requires a keen and highly proactive application support analyst who is capable of working independently.
Responsibilities:
You will be responsible for providing first and second line support of applications used by the Equities Derivatives trading front and middle office including derivatives order management systems. You would take responsibility for managing major incidents / application outages including risk management system support and market connectivity tradefeeds. Performance of these tasks will include timely and regular communication to all users:
- Derivatives application support
- Application Environment Stability
- Application Platform monitoring
- Outage Management
Key Competencies:
We will require you to actively look at ways of improving the production environment . for example, identifying and implementing new application monitoring jobs and providing feedback to development teams on ideas for system improvements to permanently resolving root causes of production outages. You will need to have previous experience with equity derivative risk system support (Imagine), exotics risk system support
(Goose) and a good working knowledge of equity derivatives pricing. You will be able to demonstrate a good working knowledge of UNIX, shell scripting and Perl as well as ability to write and run SQL queries on Sybase and Oracle databases.
You must be able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills and excellent problem solving abilities.
Market connectivity support experience with the TSE/OSE will be an advantage.
- Product knowledge (Flow and Exotic products . Call/Puts, Option Strategies, Barrier Options, VarSwaps.
- Concepts of equity derivative option pricing . basic greeks (Delta, Gamma, Vega, Theta), implied volatility and volatility skew/smile, Black-Scholes etc.
- Front-to-back business flows
- Clear Communication
- Logical Investigation techniques |
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