Company DescriptionFor more than 20 years, Talan has been advising companies and administrations, supporting them and implementing their transformation projects in the UK and abroad. With a presence on four continents and a headcount of 5000 consultants, our ambition is to reach the billion turnover by the end of 2025.In the UK, Talan count 500 employees on several site, the main being: London, Edinburgh and Chester, Leeds.Job DescriptionThis role consists of managing the support of applications for the following desks:
Index flow
Emerging markets
Commodities
Equity financing
Flow sales
Duties will include the setting of proprietary software for booking, pricing and trading (manual and automaton, market interface) :
Real-time settings
Market data parameters
Market access performance tuning
Computation setup
Duties will also include electronic executions matching, new releases deployment, bug reporting and new features or improvements requests to development teams.Qualifications- Excellent verbal and written communications skill.- Programming skills for scripting or small development (Python/ PHP/ Visual Basic/ Unix Shell Scripts/ C#/ Java)- Relational database knowledge- Must be able to thrive in a demanding front-office environment- Highly motivated team player but also capable of working independentlyNice to have:-Strong knowledge of financial markets, derivative products (equities and commodities)-Electronic trading support experience-Knowledge of options and futures operations/clearing-Knowledge of Citrix servers' managementAdditional InformationHybrid working from Central London
