Luxoft
Finance Accounting Consultant
- Permanent
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
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Job expiry date: 10/06/2025
Job overview
Date posted
26/04/2025
Location
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 40,000 - 50,000 per month
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
10/06/2025
Job description
The Accounting Business Analyst will be required to be part of the GM IT Finance Squad responsible for providing IT services to the Global Markets Finance team. The squad handles support, change requests, and projects related to Global Markets Finance. The role involves requirement analysis, functional specifications, liaising with business and IT teams, solution configuration, testing, training, and supporting Murex systems used in Finance. The consultant will act as the SME for the Murex suite within Finance, ensuring optimal product usage and effective issue resolution.
Required skills
murex accounting module
murex v3.1
capital markets products
murex static data
murex finance processes
accounting rule configuration
GL file generation
functional accounting knowledge
liquidation module
murex datamart module
hedge accounting module
credit derivatives
interest rate derivatives
equity derivatives
fixed income
FX cash
FX derivatives
commodities
structured derivatives
risk management
Key responsibilities
- Analysis & Documentation of user requirements and transpose into Functional Specifications
- Act as key liaison with Global Markets Finance teams (business and their supporting functions), IT teams as well as with the vendors
- Participate actively in discussions with business, understand their needs and transform them into change or project initiatives
- Define the systems and data requirements and validate the systems design and processes from functional and technical aspects
- Develop and refine the various business/functional/testing requirements in support of the project and systems involved, working alongside the vendor if needed
- Configuration of the solution as per requirements
- Act as the subject matter expert for Murex suite of tools used within Finance (Functional & Technical) and ensuring that all functionality of the products are installed and leveraged to its best capability within the group
- Creation of test plan, test cases, execution of system testing
- Contribute to the User Training activities, through one-to-one discussion, preparation of user training guides & presentations
- Follow up with vendor support as and when necessary to resolve bugs/issues
- Ensure technical and functional hand over of the project and changes to the relevant teams
- Assist in developing business and operational processes and to participate in developing system training artefacts when required
Experience & skills
- The candidate should possess either a postgraduate degree or qualification in Information Systems / Engineering / Business Administration
- The candidate should carry minimum 7-9 years of relevant work experience in a Bank or IT Company
- Minimum 5 years of experience as Murex Finance consultant with SME in murex accounting module (accounting for trades, accounting for flows, accounting for liquidation, accounting for business events)
- Experience in implementation and supporting Murex v3.1 with regards to Finance capabilities
- Excellent knowledge of Capital Markets products and processes, front to back
- Good exposure to Murex
- Static data (Counterparts, securities, historical data, indices, Fx conversion factors, Fx spot...)
- Excellent exposure to Finance processes in Murex (accounting rule configuration process, GL file generation)
- Excellent knowledge about Functional accounting knowledge and liquidation module
- Excellent experience in Murex datamart module
- Finance functional knowledge
- Should encompass most or all of the following asset classes: Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, Equity Derivatives, Fixed Income, FX Cash, FX Derivatives, Commodities, Structured Derivatives
- Strong knowledge of the Global Markets products and practices, front-to-end: pricing, limit checks, booking, risk management, accounting generation, settlements and confirmation generation
- Candidate must be technically astute and have had relevant exposure and experience with bank systems and processes
- Strong proven track record of liaising with stakeholders for business requirements, specification documents, testing processes and other relevant information
- Experience in Murex Hedge Accounting module is a big advantage
