Company Description

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 2025.

In the UK, Talan count 500 employees on several site, the main being: London, Edinburgh and Chester, Leeds.

Job Description

This 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 independently

Nice 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’ management

Additional Information

Hybrid working from Central London