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This job listing has been deactivated 20.12.2019 at the request of the employer.
Business Analyst
Belgrade
Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.
About the team:
The successful candidate will be working in APT, on an award-winning cross-asset risk system. Our clients include many of the world’s largest banks, pension funds and hedge funds. Our team is around 50 people, predominantly based in Belgrade, London and India. We mainly work using ‘agile’ methodologies.
What you will be doing:
- Working in our ‘model production’ team, where we calibrate and build our risk files using market data from several market data vendors such as Thomson Reuters and Moodys.
- Designing and testing changes to the existing risk system, working with product owners and developers to break down requirements into more detailed ‘stories’ about system enhancements
- Working with the developers to ensure the enhancements are built
- Testing enhancements, comparing and validating ‘before’ and ‘after’ datasets (for example, using Excel)
- Running individual parts of our system to understand their behavior, sometimes providing test/sample data to other teams
- Learning about market risk, asset management and the detail of various asset classes (bonds, equities, funds etc.)
What you bring:
- Finance experience, ideally in market risk systems
- Strong communications skills in English
- Strong attention to detail
- Love of problem solving, especially issues related to data
- Experience converting business requirements into functional specifications/user stories
- Good knowledge of Excel for data analysis, comfortable with large data sets, vlookup etc.
Added bonus if you have:
- Experience working with software during the full software lifecycle – from initial design, development, UAT, to production
- Experience with the most widely traded financial products, such as equities and bonds
- Statistical knowledge, e.g. familiarity with standard deviation, outlier detection, working with timeseries etc.
- Familiar with quantitative finance concepts, e.g. derivatives, volatility, yield curves etc.
- Experience with financial market data from vendors such as Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, Moodys etc.
- Experience working with ‘agile’ methodology : standups, grooming, sprints etc.
- Knowledge of SQL
- Any experience with programming languages (e.g. VBA, Java, Python, R, Matlab)
What we offer you:
- A work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respect
- Competitive salary and attractive range of benefits designed to help support your lifestyle and wellbeing (including private healthcare, 27 days of vacation, work from home – 4 days per month, etc.)
- Varied and challenging work to help you grow your technical skillset
Ready to start your journey with us?
We look forward to receiving your application. Please use only the button below in order to apply (only complete online applications will be considered).
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Deadline for applications: 28.12.2019.
Job listing has been deactivated
This job listing has been deactivated 20.12.2019 at the request of the employer.
