API Desktop Financial Application Developer – Dubai recruitment

The Role:

We are currently looking for an API Desktop Financial Application Developer to join our Dubai API Desktop Build Team. The Desktop Build Group is a resource which works closely with the Sales Department to build ad hoc desktop solutions for our customers. The aim of the team is to increase our client's dependency on Bloomberg by creating desktop solutions, mainly spreadsheets that use our API. The successful candidate will be assigned to specific projects and have the ability to prioritize various workloads. Projects include assisting customers in migrating their worksheets from competitor products to Bloomberg data and building sophisticated models in VBA that fill a product gap. The role is client facing and the candidate must be comfortable discussing the project requirements with all players working in the financial markets. Due to the level of client and product exposure, the candidate would also be expected to provide valid feedback to the business in order to help improve our product.

Requirements:

-Exceptional knowledge of Excel and Excel VBA.
-Prior experience working within Financial Markets.
-Proactive, energized, orientated and prepared to take ownership in a fast turnaround/development environment.
-Knowledge of competitor products is not required though would be beneficial.
-Strong communication skills, as the job involves daily interaction with Bloomberg customers and Bloomberg Sales Force is necessary.
-Fluency in English.
-Fluency in Arabic is an advantage.
-Must be prepared to travel through the Middle East and Africa regions.

The Company:

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 300,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg
Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 13,000 people in 185 locations around the world.

Bloomberg is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other classification protected by law.