Murex Credit Risk Consultant

Role Summary

Our client is seeking an experienced Murex Credit Risk Consultant to support the implementation, enhancement, integration, and production support of the Murex Credit Risk platform. This role typically combines functional, technical, and business analysis responsibilities.

In this role, you will work closely with Credit Risk, Market Risk, Front Office, Middle Office, Risk Management, and Technology teams to deliver credit risk solutions covering counterparty exposure, collateral management, limits monitoring, XVA, and regulatory reporting. You will participate in new implementations, upgrades, BAU support, and strategic transformation initiatives while ensuring that credit risk calculations and regulatory requirements are accurately implemented within the Murex platform.

Key Responsibilities

Functional Responsibilities

• Configure and support Murex Credit Risk modules.
• Analyze business requirements from Credit Risk and Trading teams.
• Configure counterparty risk calculations.
• Support Credit Exposure calculations including Current Exposure, Potential Future Exposure (PFE), Expected Exposure (EE), Expected Positive Exposure (EPE)
• Configure collateral and margining workflows.
• Support CSA agreements and collateral optimization.
• Configure credit limits and monitoring.
• Implement wrong-way risk methodologies.
• Support settlement risk calculations.
• Configure netting agreements.
• Validate exposure calculations with business users.
• Produce Functional Specification Documents (FSD).
• Produce Business Requirement Documents (BRD).
• Conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Prepare test cases and reconciliation reports.
• Support production incidents.

Technical Responsibilities

• Configure Murex workflows.
• Develop SQL queries
• Analyze Oracle database data.
• Support batch processing.
• Analyze performance issues.
• Support upgrades and migrations.
• Coordinate deployment activities.
• Work with developers on bug fixes.
• Review technical designs.

Risk Management Responsibilities

• Support implementation of Counterparty Credit Risk, Credit Limits, Exposure Aggregation, Netting Agreements, Collateral Management

Project Responsibilities

• Participate in end-to-end Murex implementation projects i.e., requirements gathering, gap analysis, solution design, SIT/UAT support, production and post-production cutover.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Engineering/ Mathematics/ Finance/ Financial Engineering or similar field
• Has at least 5 years of work experience in end-to-end Murex implementation across Murex MX.3, Credit Risk Module, Counterparty Risk, Exposure Management, Credit Limits, Collateral Management, Margining
• Has at least 3 years of experience in Credit Risk implementation/support
• Has exposure to banking functions such as Treasury, Capital Markets, Trading Operations, Middle Office and Risk Management, preferably from global investment banks
• Has knowledge in Financial Products and Risk such as Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR), SA-CCR and Credit Limits
• Has handled Murex Upgrade/ Migration / Integration Projects in Agile / Scrum capacity
• Has hands-on experience with SQL, Oracle Database, UNIX/Linux, Shell Scripting and XML
• Has excellent analytical/ problem-solving skills
• A leader with effective stakeholder management and presentation and documentation skills