Copy of Fixed Income Trading Integration Project Manager recruitment

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 310,000 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, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and BNA, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, 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 15,000 people in 192 locations around the world.

The role

FIT Integration is a project management role tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that both dealer and customer e-trading initiatives over Bloomberg are delivered efficiently and on time. The team works with various internal groups within Bloomberg as well as both business and technical contacts within our customers.

Our projects involve a multitude of proprietary and third party systems as well as a wide range of fixed income security types such as Cash Bonds, Money Market, Repo, Credit Default Swaps and Interest Rate Swaps. Sell-side dealers integrate their pricing and trading engines with our platform via Bloomberg proprietary APIs. We also provide FIX and FTP solutions for trade reconciliation and allocations.

Buy-side customers integrate their Order Management Systems with our platform via FIX to be able to stage orders onto Bloomberg and route them to various dealers for execution and allocation. The team also sets up workflows to various Clearing Platforms and Data Repositories such as the CME, LCH, Clearnet, ICE, DTCC and Markitwire.

Responsibilities

-Project management: Ensures that dealer and customer e-trading initiatives over Bloomberg are delivered efficiently and on time

-Customer Service: Focuses on supporting our customer’s needs

-Process Efficiency: Follows the teams written procedures and gives feedback on how to improve them

-Communication: Works well with both commercial and technical staff, within Bloomberg and within our customers

-Knowledge of systems/workflows: Able to relate to a multitude of proprietary and third party systems as well as a wide range of security types and workflows

-Development: Constantly learning as well as teaching others and updating documentation for the greater good of the team and department

Qualifications

-Strong project management skills with a proven track record of delivering Fixed Income e-trading integration projects on time

-Knowledge of securities markets and the industry standard FIX protocol

-Excellent communication skills

-Fluency in major foreign languages viewed favorably

-Degree or equivalent