Talan is recruiting for anIT Application SupportAnalysttojointhe London-based CIT Business Support Team dedicated to the Commodities-Indexed Transactions Group (CIT).
This is on-site 5 days a week.
CIT provides liquidity and market-making services across commodity markets to a large and diversified base of clients worldwide. Products include Base and Precious Metals, Oil, European and North American Power and Natural Gas, Coal, Emissions and Agricultural Commodities.
The CIT Business Support Team is one of two CIT IT sub-teams; the other team isthe CIT Core Development Team.Both teamsworkon the trading floor in close partnership withCIT.The primary responsibility of the Business Support Team is to provide front-to-back production support for the CIT platform.
Key Responsibilities
As a member of the team, support theglobalcommodities in house platform, critical for front-to-back functionality including pricing,risk management, market data sharing,p&lreporting, settlements, physical scheduling,tradeconfirmationsand regulatory reporting.
Key daily tasks include:
Proactivelymonitoringthe system
Configuringthe system
Analysingand resolvingproduction supporttechnical and functionalissues
Fieldingquestions fromallCITpersonnel includingtraders, marketers, risk managers, and middle office and keeping them informed of system issues and changes affecting them
Advisingthecore development teamof necessary bug fixes and enhancements
Participatingin the first-line supportrota, 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 infirst-line support to focus on more in-depth analysis.
Release management
Skills and Experience
This role requires strong problem-solving andcommunication skills.The analyst willengagedirectly with many different teams within the bank including trading, sales, middle office, back office, confirmations, marketriskand accounting.Therefore, theability to pick updiverseproduct and process knowledge will be critical.
Functional skills
Front to back process.
Knowledge on commodities/PNL/Pricingis a plus.
Technical skills
Intermediate level relational database andSQLskills arerequired.
Python or other programming skills
Good knowledge of script languages (Powershell ) and Windows environment.