Murex FO Consultant

Role overview

Elenjical Solutions, a Murex business partner with operations across Johannesburg, South Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, is seeking an experienced Murex Front Office Consultant for its Saudi Arabia team.

Location: Saudi Arabia

Experience required: 3 to 5 years in Murex Front Office support and development.

Core responsibilities

• Configure and support Murex front office modules.
• Prepare, maintain, and validate static data such as generators, bonds, currency pairs, and similar reference items.
• Set up and validate market curves.
• Configure the e-trade pad.
• Develop pre-trade functionality.
• Build, debug, and enhance simulation and live book view features.
• Analyse and explain profit and loss movements.
• Provide support to front office and middle office users.
• Collect functional requirements and carry out business analysis.
• Offer functional support to other delivery streams.
• Handle instrument pricing and validation tasks.

Education and role requirements

• A bachelor's or master's degree in sciences, technology, engineering, mathematics, financial risk management, or financial engineering is required.
• Strong knowledge of financial instruments is essential.
• Working understanding of derivative pricing is required, especially across fixed income, interest rate derivatives, money markets, FX, and commodities.
• Basic knowledge of financial risk measures is required.
• Professional certifications such as FRM, CFA, CQF, or PRM are an advantage.

Consulting and delivery skills

• Ability to gather and interpret client requirements accurately.
• Capability to design practical solutions from business needs.
• Experience in software development and implementation.
• Ability to support scoping and effort estimation.
• Skill in configuring systems or developing software to meet functional needs.
• Strong planning and task execution discipline.
• Clear documentation of requirements, solutions, and configuration details.
• Ability to define and support unit, integration, UAT, and regression testing.
• Comfortable training developers and end users.
• Capable of providing post-implementation support.
• Strong stakeholder management and expectation handling.
• Effective prioritization of high-impact tasks.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Good interpersonal skills and emotional control in one-to-one and group interactions.
• Collaborative approach to achieving shared goals.

Language requirements

English proficiency at C2 level is required. Arabic is an added advantage.