Executive, IT/Electronic Trading Support

Singapore

Headquartered in Singapore with presence in the United States and Indonesia, Straits Financial serves as the financial services arm of the CWT Group, a global leading provider of integrated logistics and financial services. We provide a fully-integrated service for our clients to access the financial and commodity derivative markets and will continue to expand into key financial and commodity markets.

The Team:

We are looking for Electronic Trading Support to manage and maintain Trading System operations. This is a technical hands-on role. The primary focus for this position is ETS but may be required to support other functions like IT Support, infrastructure and/or Application functions whenever required to cover the team workload.

This position reports to the ETS Lead.

Key Responsibilities

1. Trading Support

• Support different Trading Systems such as CQG, ATP, TTNG & etc.
• Management on System changes, migration, implementation & etc.
• Support internal Application Systems such as Global Risk, Middle Office System, Back Office etc.
• Dealer Desk Support on complex Trade and Tech issues. This would involve communicating and escalating to vendors.
• Work on any ad-hoc projects/initiatives related Trading application.
• Ensure completeness with sufficiency of documentation for all support procedures.

2. Internal IT Support

• Support Office System BCP.
• Application Process monitoring.
• User Desktop PC OS and Application Support.
• Domain and email user setup.
• Phone Systems and Dealer Turret system support.
• Internal Application Support.
• Office IT Infrastructure Support.

3. Trading System Setup

• Liaise with Sales on new customer Trading System setup requirements.
• Investigate & resolve any system setup issues on respective front-end trading system.
• Prepare and send out frontend trading platform ID/PW to authorized traders and other official client communication.
• Update in respective frontend trading platform for any change request in a timely manner.
• Ensure completeness with sufficiency of documentation for record keeping as part of client account maintenance.
• Assist in the administrative work and/or coordination involved in any ad-hoc projects/initiatives related to account setup process changes.

Requirements

You should possess the following:

• At least a Diploma in Computer Science or equivalent.
• At least 1 year of relevant working experience in trading platform support role.
• Able to identify potential problems; exhibit initiative to raise issues, resolve issues and escalate as appropriate.
• Possesses good customer (Internal and External), vendor and IT team relations and communication skills.
• Meticulous, mature with a positive work attitude.
• Able to work in high pressure and operational environment.
• Willing to work on weekends if needed.
• Strong team player with ability to support and cover other team members whenever required.
• Need to work in shifts when required.
• Basic understanding of Derivatives and FX Trading.
• Basic networking and operating system knowledge.