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Jack Mallon PRM

London SW4

Summary

Murex Consultant with 5+ years' experience of working with Murex in Investment banking. Experience within Capital markets with a range of Financial and Technical knowledge. Specialism within FO Murex Support and Development.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
2021
2021
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Murex FO Support and BA

First Derivatives - Mizuho London
04.2022 - Current

Onsite L3 support as Mx FO SME across multiple Desks: Rates, Credit, Treasury

  • Collaborating with Trading to resolve Pricing and Risk discrepancies in real-time, ensuring minimal impact on trading activities
  • Monitor and support integration with Realtime market data providers (BPIPE) via RTBS module and EOD sources
  • Assisting with urgent Trade STP issues
  • Testing and Implementation of Rate, Credit, Repo Curve setups. Working with Model Validation & Risk to help deliver new requirements
  • Providing walkthroughs of Murex application for new business users
  • Point of escalation for L2 Murex Support team
  • Providing training for Murex Support L2 team in FO relation functions
  • Reporting Murex FO updates to Key business stakeholders (CIO,COO, FO IT) in a monthly call.
  • Co-ordination of internal unwinds between desks, including risk/PL impact and assisting with event lifecycle
  • Creation of new Simulation, E-tradepad, Pricing layouts and other FO elements for front end users

Liaising with key business stakeholders to provide improvements and new developments in FO space;

  • Funding Improvements for Treasury desk
  • Implementation of an entity wide PL sweep
  • PL Reporting improvements (Flash & Official)
  • Forwards viewer Reporting
  • EOD risk reporting
  • New Products
  • Automation of Reports/Alerts
  • Murex FO SME resource for projects – IBOR Transitions, PRA/FRTB, E2E testing

Murex Support

First Derivatives - Mizuho London
06.2018 - 04.2022

Production system support on Murex 3.1

  • Resolving incidents raised to Support team across entire MX 3.1 application
  • Tracking recurring issues through Problem management and implementing improvements as part of Release cycles
  • Liaising with Business users to deliver new improvements and solutions for existing issues.
  • Assisting with Murex Production Releases, Regression testing and Release control measures
  • Monitoring the Murex EOD Batch Process
  • Coordinating Murex processes for Tri-Optima Compressions
  • Creating and maintaining documentation
  • Providing Training for new and existing members of the L2 team
  • Communicating with Vendor , testing and deploying proposed solutions
  • Access to BBG provided to reconcile Market data, Pricing, Realtime and Static data issues.
  • From Aug 2021 specialising in FO/Risk Support working as part of a dedicated team

Education

Finance with a Year in Industry Bsc -

Queens University Belfast

Professional Risk Manager Designation - undefined

PRMIA

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First Derivatives plc – Capital Markets Training Programme

Skills

Murex


FO: Trade Lifecycle, Pricing and Valuation, E-tradepad, Simulation, Livebook/RBPL, Market data, RTBS, PLVAR


Risk: MLC, Market risk


Integration and Reporting : Datamart, Pretrade, Post-trade workflows


Accounting and Back office : Accounting, Liquidation, Confirmations, Deliverables



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Domain Knowledge: Swaps, Bonds, IR Derivatives, FX, MM, Repo and Collateral, Credit


Project Skills: Project Tracking Tools, Project Documentation (Schedules, Procedures and Operations), UAT/SIT testing, Presentation skills, Agile


Technical Skills: MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook), SQL, UNIX, Murex, Anvil, Bloomberg, Control MI, JIRA, Confluence


Issue Resolution : Debugging, Root cause analysis, Pricing and risk configuration troubleshooting


Interests and Hobbies

Compete in Gaelic football and enjoy various other activities such as Football, Tennis., Enjoy playing Guitar and have completed up to Grade 7 in RGT examinations.

Timeline

Murex FO Support and BA

First Derivatives - Mizuho London
04.2022 - Current

Murex Support

First Derivatives - Mizuho London
06.2018 - 04.2022

Professional Risk Manager Designation - undefined

PRMIA

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First Derivatives plc – Capital Markets Training Programme

Finance with a Year in Industry Bsc -

Queens University Belfast
Jack Mallon PRM