Senior Murex Functional Consultant

Project Description:

We are seeking an experienced Murex Functional Consultant / Specialist to support a Murex implementation or change project. The successful candidate will be responsible for defining, configuring, validating, and supporting functional solutions within Murex across Front Office, Middle Office, and/or Back Office areas, depending on project scope.
The role requires strong hands-on Murex expertise, a solid understanding of financial products and trade lifecycle processes, and the ability to work closely with business stakeholders, BA teams, developers, and support teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Responsibilities:

. Functional Design and Solution Definition
. Analyze business requirements and translate them into functional Murex solutions.
. Define target-state processes and functional designs for Murex implementation or change activities.
. Identify standard configuration options, gaps, dependencies, and potential workarounds.
. Recommend functional solutions aligned with business, risk, control, and technical constraints.
Hands-on Murex Configuration
. Perform or support hands-on configuration in Murex.
. Configure and maintain relevant Murex components, which may include:
o product setup
o workflows
o event generation
o pricing parameters
o market data setup
o settlement and payment logic
o accounting mappings
o reporting and messaging configurations
. Ensure configuration changes are properly documented, tested, and controlled.
. Support environment migration and deployment activities where required.
Product and Trade Lifecycle Support
. Support end-to-end trade lifecycle processes within Murex.
. Validate product behavior across booking, valuation, lifecycle events, settlement, and reporting.
. Troubleshoot issues related to pricing, risk, settlements, confirmations, accounting, or reporting.
. Work with business teams to ensure configured functionality meets desk and operational requirements.
Testing and Validation
. Define functional test scenarios, expected results, and acceptance criteria.
. Support unit testing, system testing, integration testing, regression testing, and UAT.
. Investigate defects, perform root-cause analysis, and support retesting.
. Validate that configured functionality works as intended in all relevant scenarios.
Stakeholder and Delivery Support
. Work closely with business users, BAs, developers, testers, and project managers.
. Support issue resolution, design reviews, and implementation planning.
. Communicate functional risks, limitations, and dependencies clearly.
. Contribute to cutover, go-live, and hypercare support.
Production and Hypercare Support
. Support production issue investigation and resolution.
. Analyze configuration-related incidents and propose fixes or workarounds.
. Provide post-go-live support and assist with stabilization activities.
. Help ensure operational continuity and functional integrity of the platform.
Documentation
. Produce and maintain functional design documents, configuration notes, test scripts, and support documentation.
. Ensure traceability from business requirements to functional design, configuration, testing, and deployment.
. Maintain accurate records of configuration decisions, assumptions, and known limitations.

Mandatory Skills Description:

. Proven experience as a Murex Functional Consultant / Specialist on implementation or change projects.
. Strong hands-on knowledge of Murex and its functional configuration.
. Experience working across one or more of the following areas:
o Front Office
o Middle Office
o Back Office
o Risk
o Market Data
o P&L
o Settlements / Confirmations / Accounting
. Strong understanding of financial markets products and trade lifecycle processes.
. Ability to translate business requirements into practical Murex solutions.
. Experience in testing, issue analysis, and defect resolution.
. Strong communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and business stakeholders.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

. Experience with Murex modules or areas such as:
o trade capture and product definitions
o pricing and valuation
o risk sensitivities and analytics
o settlement and payment processing
o confirmation workflows
o accounting interfaces
o static data and market data
o reporting and messaging
. Knowledge of derivatives, rates, FX, credit, fixed income, equities, or commodities.
. Experience with MxML, workflow, or other Murex functional components.
. Understanding of interfaces, downstream systems, and data flows.
. SQL or data analysis skills.
. Experience working in large financial institutions or complex transformation programs.