Excel/VBA – RAD Developer – £65k!! recruitment

A Top Tier Investment Bank are seeking an experienced RAD developer to develop applications and tools with Microsoft technologies (MS Excel/Access VBA) for our Middle Office Risk Team. This is great opportunity to work closely with the business users across the different Risk business teams to understand and clarify requirements, undertake analysis of systems, business processes, data and interfaces. The RAD developer will provide application support for the applications under formal support arrangements, and, ad-hoc application support for user-developed applications.Work closely with other RAD development team members to contribute to the overall implementation of tactical/RAD projects as part of the RAD team.
* Work with other developers, designers, architects, business analysts and testers as part of the wider IST Information Technology Services (ITS) team; particularly in support of larger releases projects.
* Work with Solution Architects to adhere to ITS Architecture Design standards guidelines
* Assist with establishing an effective environment for rapid application development.
* Work with End User Computing (EUC) application owners across IST business (front to back) to ensure conformance to appropriate standards.
* RAD/EUC Team are responsible for providing support and consultancy for the Enterprise Spreadsheet Mgmt (ESM) Application - ClusterSeven.
* Perform periodic validation of EUCs which will need to be carried out against the IST EUC Control Process as required.

Requirments:* Extensive experience as RAD analyst/developer using Microsoft technologies (Excel/Access VBA) to design, develop and support business applications in a Middle or Front Office environment.
* Extensive experience programming in VBA with MS Office*Knowledge/understanding of Risk Management (Market, Credit Operational)
* Knowledge/understanding of commodity trading
* Knowledge/understanding of end-to-end (Front Office to Back Office) business processes in financial trading risk environment
* Experience with object oriented programming (C#.NET, Visual Studio)
* Experience of SQL Server database design development (t-SQL, stored procedures etc)
* Experience with source concontrol tools (Clearcase/Perforce/Subversion/Micorsoft Source Safe, Cruise Control/Buildforge, ClusterSeven)
* Knowledge of End User Computing (EUC) usage with Financial Reporting (Accounts etc) and Front Office

For more information or to talk further please contact me on 02073970132 or alex.mesropians@nicollcurtin.com