Murex Business Analyst

**Job title**: Senior Murex Business Analyst
**Location**: Vancouver, BC
**Position Type**:

- Contract

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**Murex Business Analyst - Front to Back**

**What are the top 3 skills required for this role?**

1. Strong functional expertise in Murex across Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office

2. Proven experience in designing technical components within the Murex ecosystem and establishing foundational business analysis for seamless developer implementation

3. Deep understanding of Capital Markets domain

**Role Overview**

We are seeking an experienced **Murex Business Analyst** to lead requirements, design, and delivery across the full **front‑to‑back** trade lifecycle on **Murex**. The role spans **Trade Entry, Middle Office, Back Office, Accounting, Reporting, Risk (incl. MLC & VaR), Custody, and Collateral Management**, covering products such as **FX, Fixed Income, Derivatives, MBS**, and structured transactions including **Swaps** and **Repos**. You will collaborate with business, operations, risk, finance, and technology teams, and own integrations with upstream/downstream systems.

**Key Responsibilities**

**1) Front Office / Trade Entry**
- Gather and document **front office** requirements for pricing, booking workflows, trade capture templates, and validations.
- Configure/coordinate **Murex Front Office (FO)** workflows, trade event lifecycles, and market data usage.
- Ensure support for **FX, Fixed Income, Derivatives, MBS**, **Swaps**, and **Repos** including deal attributes, calendars, pay/receive legs, and day‑count conventions.

**2) Middle Office**
- Design **STP** workflows, exception handling, repair queues, and enrichment rules.
- Define **confirmations**, **settlement instructions**, and **matching** (incl. electronic confirms if applicable).
- Implement lifecycle events (amend, cancel, partials, novations), limits checks, and P\&L/PAA attribution where relevant.

**3) Back Office**
- Specify **settlement**, **payments**, **cash flows**, and **Nostro/Vostro** processing.
- Align cut‑offs, netting, batching, and **corporate actions** for Fixed Income/MBS.
- Define controls for reconciliations and EoD processes; support operational playbooks.

**4) Accounting**
- Map products/events to **accounting rules** and **chart of accounts**; align with **IFRS/GAAP** policies.
- Translate trade lifecycle events into postings, validate **glossaries** and **accounting schemes**, and support month‑end close.
- Interface with **Workday** for HR/cost center impacts (if applicable) and general ledger integrations.

**5) Reporting**
- Design **regulatory**, **management**, and **operational** reports: positions, P\&L, sensitivities, cash ladders, settlements, and exception dashboards.
- Define **data lineage**, timeliness/accuracy SLAs, and BI extracts; enable auditability for controls.

**6) Risk (MLC & VaR)**
- Set up **Market Limits Control (MLC)** frameworks: limit hierarchies, breach workflows, alerts, and approvals.
- Define **VaR** methodologies (historical/variance‑covariance/Monte Carlo), horizons, confidence levels, and back‑testing; coordinate market data (curves, vol surfaces, CDS spreads) and model governance.
- Align with risk appetite statements, stress testing, and scenario analysis.

**7) Custody**
- Specify interfaces and workflows for **securities custody**, asset servicing, settlement status, and position reconciliations.
- Define SWIFT/custodian messaging, confirmations, fails management, and corporate actions processing.

**8) Collateral Management**
- Implement **margining** (VM/IM), eligibility schedules, haircuts, thresholds, and disputes management.
- Configure collateral calls, settlement, rehypothecation rules, and integration with legal agreements (CSA/GMSLA).
- Align collateral optimization across liquidity and funding constraints.

**9) Integrations & Interfaces (Upstream/Downstream)**
- **State Street**: Design inbound FX trade feeds, market/price data ingestion, and booking validations.
- **Treasury**: Define bi‑directional messaging for deal capture, settlements, status updates, and reconciliations.
- **Workday**: Map organizational hierarchies/cost centers impacting accounting/reporting; align HR changes with entitlements.
- **SharePoint**: Design document repositories for trade confirms, SOPs, and governance artifacts with appropriate access controls.
- **Jenkins**: Coordinate CI/CD for configuration packages, automated deployments, and environment management.
- Define message formats (XML/CSV/JSON), frequency, error handling, retry logic, and reconciliation controls; maintain interface specifications and versioning.

**10) Delivery, Testing & Governance**
- Create **BRDs/FRDs**, configuration matrices, and traceability; run **RAID** logs and program governance.
- Lead **E2E testing**: SIT, UAT, regression, and parallel runs; establish test data strategies
- Drive change management: training, cutover, migra