Business Analyst - FX and OTC

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

This is a brilliant opportunity to join our Treasury team in Edinburgh as a Business Analyst - FX & OTC. Our team oversees our modules which handle a variety of FX and OTC transactions, as well as securities lending and borrowing, repurchase agreements, collateral management and cash management. The Treasury team is part of the Investment Transactions domain within the Avaloq Core Platform division and currently focuses on extending our collateral management, securities lending and borrowing functionality.

You will join a group of highly-skilled, motivated, and dynamic people. We value collaboration and knowledge sharing. We live Agile processes, which assist us to continuously improve as individuals and as a team.

• Working as part of an Agile Development team in line with the product roadmap, and collaborating with partners and clients
• Specifying new functionality and maintaining existing functionality
• Supporting developers during implementation, testing and quality assurance for new functionality and system corrections
• Acting as point of contact for functional questions, plus analysing and following-up on customer inquiries about the modules in the Treasury space
• Supporting consulting projects and workshops with customers and partners
• Updating product documentation in collaboration with our Technical Writers

• Proven track record in a similar role with Foreign Exchange and OTC transactions is a must
• Experience with SQL and Jira is a must for this role
• Experience of working autonomously and collaboratively in a technical environment 
• Being keen to learn and to take on new challenges
• Ability to understand, abstract, and specify banking processes and requirements

It would be a real bonus if you have

• Knowledge of Avaloq Core & Front Platform with certification
• University or FH degree in Business Information Systems, Banking, Economics or equivalent 
• IT affinity or experience in software development / technical skills
• Ideally you will have professional communication skills in German

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.  

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