Technical Analyst – Members Connectivity recruitment
By bridging the international commodity markets with China, HKMEx provides an efficient and transparent pricing platform for end-users and the global trading community to trade tailor-made contracts, hedge price risks across the region and lower transactions costs. We cordially invite individuals of high caliber to join our professional team.
Job Summary
Reporting to the Senior Market Access Manager, the Technical Analyst – Members Connectivity is a client facing role and is the main focal point handling all the development issues during the on-boarding process of all participants of the Exchange including our Members and their DMA clients, ISVs and Market Data Vendors.
Key Accountabilities
- Work closely with Members and participants, ISVs, Market Data Vendors (Customers)while they are developing their connectivity to the Exchange. Assist customers with technical issues during the development process.
- Determine requirements and develop test cases for conformance testing.
- Perform conformance testing with Customers and document and review the conformance testing process, provide feedback to Customers and assistance with issues found during conformance process.
- Communicate with Clearing and Trading members to follow up business issues and change requirements.
- Responsible for the change management activities including communicating with third-party vendors, creating the Request for Changes and following its implementation.
- Manage and maintain the systems environment used for Customer development.
- Work with test and new product introduction teams during new member on-boarding and new product introduction.
- Maintain documentation on the data workflow between all systems (pre-trade and post-trade): order management systems, Application Program Interfaces (API) and the relationship with the Clearing House.
- Create and maintain customers’ presentations, project timelines, status reports, completed project planning documents/forms (in Chinese and English).
- Analyze business process, requirement, challenges and opportunities by conducting market research and project assessments.
- Recommend suggestions, alternatives and potential solutions after having made the impact analysis.
- Responsible for the global overview and documentation of the systems’ interactions with customers, the Exchange and the Clearing House.
Job Requirements
- Degree in IT, accounting, finance or a business related discipline with a 5-7 years experience preferably in exchange/financial institutions or consultancy, including minimum of 3 years' relevant experience
- Experience in trading systems (specifically APIs), order management, clearing management systems, conformance testing is a definite advantage
- Good technical knowledge of trading systems and the operational flow from front to back office
- Good knowledge of FIX 4.4 Protocol and environments
- Strong analytical, organizational and presentation skills, and business acumen
- Flexibility to work in a dynamic, changing environment
- Fluency in written and spoken English, Cantonese and Putonghua
- Good communication, reporting and documentation skills
May 9, 2010
• Tags: Commodities careers in the Hong Kong SAR, Members Connectivity recruitment, Technical Analyst • Posted in: Financial