eFinancialCareers

• Company

  PINPOINT ASIA

• Location

  China-Hong Kong

• Compensation

  Excellent Remuneration

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  24 Nov 2009

• eFC Ref no

  567453

Pinpoint Asia is the leading specialist IT recruitment and consulting firm in the Asia Pacific region. We have carefully and strategically grown our client base to include a number of the world's top financial institutions. We are now the leading technology search firm for an elite group of Investment Banks including some of the most renowned names on Wall Street. Our significant market reputation is a direct result of having developed strong working relationships with select financial organisations based upon our intimate understanding of the marketplace and proven ability to deliver results. To get ahead, contact us at www.pinpointasia.com

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A leading financial firm is looking a senior application analyst to join their front office team.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support of DMA/FIX/Algo Trading systems (in-house applications or Fidessa) to business users and external clients
• Implement short-term fixes and long-term enhancements as well as automation strategies (testing, installation, configuration, etc)
• Be the subject matter expert of the systems and be able to contribute enhancement ideas to global technology teams
• Build and maintain strong relationship with the front office business users
• Coordinate with various technology teams to conduct UAT

Requirements:

• 2 to 8+ years of front office support experience for Cash Equity (Any ONE of DMA/FIX, Algo, or Fidessa) trading systems (There are multiple openings and the seniority of this role will be determined by the candidate's experience level)
• Excellent technical support skills in Unix, Windows, scripting (shell, Perl), FIX, and SQL
• Excellent inter-personal, communication and analytical skills
• Ability to collaborate with global teams
• Able to trive in a face-paced front office environment - ability to prioritize multiple, concurrent tasks
• Strong technical background in software development life cycle would be desirable but not necessary (C#, C++, Java)

If you would like to find out more about this outstanding opportunity, please send your resume in Word format to Vince Natteri at resume@pinpointasia.com and put SENIOR FRONT OFFICE CASH EQUITY (DMA/FIX, ALGO, FIDESSA) APPLICATION SUPPORT ANALYST in the subject header.

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