Cognizant - Research Associate - Global Markets - Electronic Trading

The role will involve a number of key tasks including :

- Help build real-time tools to monitor client's open exposure and trading risk limits

- Enhance functionality/usability and add additional data points to view clients aggregate profitability across trading products

- Develop new client reports so that the clients can get a holistic view of their trading information.

- Develop new reports to provide clients with statistics of venue interaction based on Strategy and Order Placement Intentions

- Work with Data Warehouse team to resolve data discrepancies on a day-to-day basis

- Responsible for daily support and development of ongoing business initiatives

- Work with product development teams to create scalable solutions

- Support various teams in verifying rates and managing client enquiries

- Graduate with 2 - 4 years relevant experience developing applications for Investment Banking clients

- Strong Object Oriented Programming concepts, Programming in JAVA

- Strong understanding of Equities/Electronic Trading

- Strong experience in SQL programming, especially QKDB

- Should be able to work with LINUX/UNIX

- Eye for Detail

- Excellent communication skills as the candidate would have to interact with counterparts in New York and London. The candidate would have to work with the regional teams to understand the requirements, work with them to develop the new products.

- Flexible to work long hours when required

Strong analytical skills : The candidate will have to work with regional teams to understand the requirements. The candidate will have to come up with solutions to implement those requirements.