Rates and Commodities Consultant

4 weeks ago


UK, UK, United Kingdom Albany Beck Full time

Company Overview

Albany Beck is an award-winning consultancy specialising in Technology, Risk and Compliance within Financial Services. We work with top tier Investment Bank, Asset Management firms, Hedge Funds and Fintechs. What differentiates us from other consultancies is our people and as a result; Albany Beck was voted top 30 consultancy to work for in the UK.


Role Summary

The EMEA Risk team is responsible for providing client-facing and server-side support to Risk applications used by the Rates and Commodities line of businesses in London and Paris. We are looking for a team member to join the current Front Office Support team with focus on Rates and Commodities.


The Support Member works in close collaboration with the Infrastructure Support, Application Developers, Offshore Core support resources and Application Managers. This is a high-profile role working in an ever-changing environment and demands an individual with flexibility, acumen, and the ability to assimilate lots of information quickly, with focus on Incident and Problem Management.


This is a critical role requiring a highly motivated and dedicated resource who can provide procedural and technical support within the Support team to the Rates and Commodities businesses. The role provides an opportunity within a Desk facing team to gain a strong understanding of several technology areas. The depth and breadth of the support offered by this team makes it an excellent environment in which to learn or to train others.


The successful candidate has the chance to enhance capabilities of the support team and provide a leading example within the team and take delivery to the business to the next level. As a support team member, the candidate will have the responsibility of making sure that all calls are logged, updated, and followed up to resolution in a timely manner. Monitoring and technical document updates would also be considered part of BAU for this role, thus ensuring consistency across the applications and business lines supported.


Key Responsibilities:

  • First point of contact for the Rates and Commodities business users to provide support for SOD & Intraday Risk & P&L
  • Troubleshooting end-to-end around flow of trades from entry & overnight processing
  • Collaboration with regional & offshore teams
  • Application Support and Maintenance
  • Event Management (Monitoring and Alert life cycle Management)
  • Incident and Problem Management
  • Service Request Management
  • Change Management
  • Relationship / Stakeholders Management
  • Business Readiness / Pre Market / SoD Checks
  • Compliance / Audit / Regulatory queries
  • Knowledge Management
  • Application and Platform Onboarding
  • Capacity, Performance and Resiliency Management
  • Tools Development & In-house Projects


Key Requirements:

  • Hands on experience providing support for Traders Risk & P&L issues
  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Understanding of Market data – yield curves, funding curves, volatility / correlation surfaces (general understanding / familiarity)
  • Scripting languages such as Unix Shell scripting, Perl scripting etc.
  • Monitoring Tools: Exposure to Geneos ITRS and Splunk
  • Graduate degree. Preference: Computer Science or Electronics


Beneficial:

  • Rates and Commodities product knowledge
  • Grid computing
  • SQL
  • UNIX
  • Python
  • Tableau
  • Elastic search
  • Dynatrace

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