Trading Application Support

For more than 20years, 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 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

• 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

For more than 20years, 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.