For 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 2024.

We are seeking experienced  Trading Application Support Analyst.

As a member of the team, you will be supporting the global commodities in house platform, critical for front-to-back functionality including pricing, risk management, market data sharing, p&l reporting, settlements, physical scheduling, trade confirmations and regulatory reporting. 

Responsibilities:  

• Proactively monitoring the systems

• Configuring the system 

• Analyzing and resolving production support technical and functional issues  

• Fielding questions from all personnel including traders, marketers, risk managers, and middle office and keeping them informed of system issues and changes affecting them 

• Logging incidents 

• Advising the core development team of necessary bug fixes and enhancements 

• Participating in the first-line support rota, which includes an early shift for resolving overnight batch issues and an on-call system for overnight and weekend support.  The rota allows those not engaging in first-line support to focus on more in-depth analysis. 

• Release management 

This role requires strong problem-solving and communication skills.  The analyst will engage directly with many different teams within the bank including trading, sales, middle office, back office, confirmations, market risk and accounting.  Therefore, the ability to pick up diverse product and process knowledge will be critical.  

Functional skills 

• Front to back process. 

• Knowledge on commodities/PNL/Pricing is a plus. 

Technical skills 

• Python or other programming skills  

• Intermediate level relational database and SQL skills are required. 

• Infrastructure - Windows infrastructure / servers - essential 

• Good knowledge of script languages (PowerShell …) and Windows environment.