Company Description

For more than 20 years, Talan has been advising companies and administrations, supporting them and implementing their transformation projects in the UK and abroad. With a presence on four continents and a headcount of 5000 consultants, our ambition is to reach the billion turnover by the end of 2025.

In the UK, Talan count 500 employees on several site, the main being: London, Edinburgh and Chester, Leeds.

Job Description

We are looking for a Front office developer who has already experienced working in the front office. You will be involved in the whole software development lifecycle, from gathering requirements to development, testing, deployment and support.

This role will have a variety of responsibility:

- Gather requirements from traders, other clients or teams (IT, quants…)

- Develop new functionalities mostly in Excel / VBA, potentially also some Python

- Test the code. Assist and test with Microsoft Office patches etc.

- Proactively plan and migrate functionality from spreadsheets to strategic systems

- Support and improve progressively the applications developed in the team

- Collaborate with support and other IT and technical teams

- Draw up all the technical documentation required in accordance with the Group's Development Policies and the stipulations of the solution design

- Identify training, upskilling or re-profiling needs required to maintain technical competences

Qualifications

- Deep knowledge of Excel and VBA

- Experience working in banking with front office experience providing support to traders

- Experience with complex spreadsheets

- Proficient in C# .Net Core and/or Python

- Financial knowledge of Rates asset class, basic concepts and main products

Additional Information

Hybrid role based in Central London