The role gave me experience in the following:
• Supporting various trading applications and platforms used in the fixed income department
• Solving problems around profit and loss breaks, data feeds, risk figures and user rights
• Liaising between front office, product control, risk and strategy to deliver two essential tools for post trading data analysis.
• Migration projects, UAT, parallel testing, and regression testing
• Resolving urgent and immediate requests by various users in a vibrant and demanding environment
• Advanced use of EXCEL formulae and VBA
• Team working, time management, communication and problem solving skills were significantly enhanced
• Exposure to the organisational structure of investment banks
• Further understanding of financial processes and terms that affect our economy