Front Office Trading L1 Technical Support

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom BGC Group Full time
Customer Support, eOperations
Role Overview:
eOperations is a global technology support team spread across EMEA, APAC and US, providing customer-facing trading application, middle office, market data and STP support, for BGC partners group brands (GFI, BGC, Latium, RP Martin, Sunrise, Cantor, Aurel). 
eOperations works closely with internal teams (eSales, product strategy, brokers) as well as external (traders, operations/IT support teams) clients. Leveraging a unique skillset mix (business, product, technical and compliance knowledge, along with relationship management) to investigate and resolve issues or engage with other IT teams (including but not limited to level-two application support, Development, Integration, Deployment, Networks, Citrix, and Regulatory reporting) where required. 
The team have oversight of the trade lifecycle from the point of order entry through to clearing and settlement. Operating in a fast-paced environment, you will be expected to multitask and prioritize issues/requests, which many carry operational/financial/reputational risk, whilst adhering to agreed SLA’s and processes.
Ideas on how processes and procedures can be improved or new ideas on how to improve our Support model would be both welcomed and encouraged. 
 
Responsibilities:
•    Diagnose and resolve first-line support issues within service level agreement, escalating those requiring second/third line support via the defined process and appropriate channel, ensuring full audit of support issues are clearly documented within the service desk tool.
•    Manage communication for internal/external clients providing succinct, proactive updates and setting expectations through to resolution. 
•    Manage your own book of work and the distribution of work for team where required.
•    Ensure issues/queries reported (via phone, e-mail, MS teams, Bloomberg or in person) are logged and tracked for audit purposes.
•    Gain an understanding of the pre and post trade workflows along with the various customer workflows, to optimize issue resolution. This will include the publishing of market data, order entry and trade execution through to STP confirmation.
•    Become the subject matter expert on trading platform functionalities, able to replicate production issues within UAT as well as being an integral part for new platform initiative testing.
•    Perform existing daily health checks.
•    Build relationships with 3rd party vendors (ICE, Markit, LCH, Broadway, ION, Refinitiv).
•    Participate in projects; this will include hosting/presenting calls/meetings offering your specialist knowledge.
•    Participate and contribute to  team training and contact documentation (confluence) including reviewing existing/producing new documentation and videos for the benefit of the team.
 
Experience:
•    3 years in a support environment (preferably broker, investment bank, exchange, clearing house or similar financial services) supporting a one or combination of FX (NDF, SWAP, FWD, FXO), Rates (IRO, UK Gilts, EGBs. Inflation Swaps, IRS).
•    Supporting and troubleshooting FIX API connections/issues. 
•    Raw server log interrogation and navigation around directories in a Unix/Linux environment.
•    End-to-end trade flow knowledge, including market data subscription and STP (T-Zero, Markitwire/MarkitServ, ICElink, RTNS/Refinitiv and ION) is highly desirable.
•    Application deployment and/or network experience is highly desirable.
 
Skills:
•    Adapting to new proprietary technologies and financial products.
•    Lateral thinking – many queries/issues are ambiguous or unique.
•    A keen eye for attention to detail.
•    Multi-tasking and prioritization.
•    Excellent verbal, written and in-person communication – ability to understand a business user and translate to IT in technical detail.
•    Microsoft suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams).
•    SQL knowledge desirable.
•    Understanding of Network principles and protocols
•    JIRA service desk desirable.
•    Server administration desirable.
•    Scripting would be beneficial.
 
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