Murex Specialist

Job Description

RMB is a place where exceptional people create their own opportunities by challenging the conventional and driving sustainable impact.
United by our proud heritage, strong ethics and philosophy of Traditional values. Innovative ideas, it’s the magic of our people and culture that sets us apart.
Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa’s number one employer in Financial Services for 2023, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.

The role of a Murex Specialist in Market Risk is to support the implementation and maintenance of Murex solutions by collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements, configuring Murex modules, and assisting with testing and troubleshooting activities.

To work under supervision and guidance to deliver solutions that meet business needs and enhance system functionality.

Are you someone who can do the following:
Analysis and solution development
- Analyse existing processes and facilitate improvements with stakeholders.
- Work with traders, market risk managers and other stakeholders to gather and document requirements
- Conduct impact analysis, understand trader's and market risk manager’s pain points and propose solutions
- Coordinate and participate in the test effort to ensure that the delivered solution meets agreed business requirements and functional/process specifications.
- Configure/Develop Solutions in the Murex Platform to meet business needs
- Participate in analytical queries such as Risk, PnL and Pricing as well as technical queries linked to Workflows, Integrations and Reporting

Service Excellence
- Compile training material and provide end-user training to stakeholders where relevant.
- Collaborate with internal technical team/users in the resolution of critical production incidents
- Collaborate with Murex Vendor on suitable short
- and long-term solutions for incidents and new requirements
- Suggest changes in executing work processes to better drive value and benefits for the business.
- Document business as usual solutions on the team wiki.
- Keep all JIRA, SNOW and Change administrative tasks up to date.

Effective stakeholder relationship management
- Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders, displaying excellent abilities to initiate dialogue, listen, advise, influence and negotiate to achieve win-win outcomes.
- Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress, manage expectations and ensure stakeholders’ requirements are delivered
- Build relationships despite arising conflicting views and seeks mutual gains when addressing conflicts
- Anticipates consequences and adapts problem solving based on continuous feedback
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related discipline is required
- ACI Dealing Certificate advantageous

Strong functional knowledge of:

- the Capital Markets Products and Business environment
- trade life cycle and financial markets asset classes like Derivatives, Interest Rate, Money Market, Fixed Income;
- Agile Scrum project execution process
- Murex system modules - Front Office Configuration / Modules, Sensitivity, Risk issues, P&L Analysis, Pre-Trade Rules and Pricing Template setup

Experience:

- At least 3 years of experience in implementing and supporting Financial Markets systems and their interfaces between systems
- Experience in Murex and/or MX TEST

You will have access to:

- Opportunities to network and collaborate
- Challenging working
- Opportunities to innovate

We can be a match if you are:

- Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough to
- Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it
- Love putting our clients at the forefront of what you do

Job Details

10/02/25