Lead Trading Systems Analyst recruitment

Position Description:

Wellington Management is one of the world's premier investment management organisations. We are a global, privately owned firm that is 100% focused on managing money for institutional investors and mutual fund sponsors. We are headquartered in Boston with ten affiliate offices in the United States and around the world.

We have a diversified, balanced, and growing business. Our clients are based in over 40 countries - more than one third of them are domiciled outside the US - and in total they have entrusted us to manage over US$700 billion of their assets. On their behalf we manage portfolios focusing on equity, fixed income, currencies, commodities, real assets, and active asset allocation, including hedge fund portfolios.

As part of continued expansion we are seeking to recruit a Lead Systems Analyst to join our Trading Systems team.

Wellington's Trading System is available on a 24 hour basis, supporting equity, fixed income and derivatives trading in all global markets. The Lead Systems Analyst will be responsible for working with both Fixed Income and, to a lesser degree, Equity Trading. He/she will lead all aspects of the definition, implementation and support of the trading applications. This position will entail a high level of direct interaction with Traders, Trade Administrators and Portfolio Managers.

Principal responsibilities :

• Partner with the Fixed Income Trading business to define and document the requirements for the fixed income trading systems;
• Take ownership for the delivery of functionality;
• Identify specific industry initiatives that require product changes and new product development. This will extend from improving the existing products to developing next generation products;
• Apply a blend of business and technical savvy, big-picture vision, and an ability to work with various internal teams, in order to execute on projects;
• Collaborate with software developers, database architects, vendors and other IT and business teams to analyze and determine functional specifications and UI design for new applications and enhancements to existing applications;
• Develop deep knowledge and expertise in Wellington specific trading workflows;
• Work with Traders to prioritize needs, and ensure communication to keep them appraised of progress;
• Facilitate resolution of production issues by working with appropriate teams to research problems, track progress and determine and document solutions.

The successful candidate is likely to have:

• 8+ years of relevant trading or portfolio management systems analysis experience, ideally including experience of leading other analysts;
• Experience of project management and business analysis for medium to large initiatives;
• A strong working knowledge of fixed income trading practices;
• Experience, ideally, of working with Charles River, Latent Zero, Longview, Rediplus, Trading Technologies or Calypso;
• A strong knowledge of order management systems (OMS), Financial Information eXchange protocol (FIX), electronic trading practices and markets;
• The qualities of self-motivation and willingness to work in an energetic, fast paced team environment;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• The ability to manage multiple priorities effectively;
• Additional experience, ideally, of Oracle/SQL, PL/SQL, VBA, or Java;
• A strong academic background including at a minimum, a Bachelor's degree.

Please note that we are only able to respond to successful applicants.