This is a development role within the risk calculation services practice area, focused on projects for the Emerging Markets desk. Role involves workings with traders, modellers and controllers building systems for pricing, risk management and P&L.
Work includes a mixture of short term tactical development (eg. investigating P&L, setting up scenarios, small development tasks in existing trading tool) and longer term strategic work (eg. system extensions to allow trading of exotic derivatives on non-deliverable currencies)
System is written in C#, Java, C++ and proprietary language. Candidate will need to be comfortable working in all environments.
Requirements:
The candidate needs to be…
1) bright and numerate with strong problem solving skills in an extremely fast paced enviroment.
2) must have some knowledge of fixed income instruments (bonds, swaps, etc)
3) must have good communication skills to be able to articulate herself/himself in front of traders and other internal clients.
3) The ideal candidate must have strong experience on server side programming in Java/C++
Skills Desired
Past experience or working knowledge of Interest Rate Derivatives pricing and Emerging Market products is a big plus.
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $100,000 – $150,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Participate in deployment of in-house written and commercial products for Market Data distribution. Manage related projects, using the best practics and technical standards. Responsibilities include:
- working with development teams on software support and integration
- capacity planning and management of the time-sensitive data delivery infrastructure
- outage management, including communication with affected clients, documentation and resolution implementation
- facilitation of audit and security requirements
- create effective strategies for proactive monitoring of the plant
Requirements:
- solid knowledge of Unix/Linux OS
- good scripting skills in shell, Perl or Python
- excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
- ability to communicate in clear and concise manner with technical and non-technical personnel
- functional knowledge of networking topology and basic protocols (TCP/IP, multicast)
- familiarity with financial industry and trading concepts
Skills Desired:
knowledge of relational databases and SQL
- experience with programming languages (C,C++, Java)
- familiarity with middleware components (MQ, XML)
- exposure to FIX and FAST technology
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $90,000 – $140,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Securities Operations Application Support Analyst will join the New York team of the global Securities Operations support team situated within the Production Management Practice Area Group.
The successful candidate will exhibit strong business and technical skills having experienced a wide variety of functions/ technologies preferably within a banking/securities environment and be able to apply these to troubleshooting significant system outages.
Strong leadership qualities are essential, as the role involves:-
- Chairing outage resolution conference calls, managing significant incidents and coordinating communications.
- Initiating, growing and shaping processes, procedures and strategies to make the team more effective – familiarity with ITIL service management frameworks would be of benefit.
- Presenting both new projects, metrics, and other reports to the wider group and sharing best practices.
- Leading projects and initiatives within the team to implement new strategies, manage events (infrastructure change, software releases, business continuity tests, etc.) and on-board support for new business areas or renovated systems.
- Developing and coaching others.
- Marshalling offshore resources providing level 1 and level 2 support.
- Acting as a key point of contact for multiple development teams to drive improvements in application and user support processes.
- Acting as a primary escalation/communication point between Application development teams, Infrastructure groups, and client Business Units
- Challenging existing practices to strive for continuous improvement
This is a diverse role which provides great personal development opportunities and will suit an astute application support analyst with an appetite for responsibility, front office business contact, hands-on technology exposure and daily challenge in a dynamic environment.
Requirements:
- Intermediate knowledge of UNIX operating systems
- Familiarity with relational database concepts and basic SQL syntax
- Familiarity with client/server based application architectures.
- Prior financial services industry experience
- Prior application support experience
- Excellent prioritization and time management
- An analytical approach to problem solving
- Client facing skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Skills Desired
ITIL Certification
- Familiarity with IT infrastructure – networks, storage, unix system administration etc.
- Familiarity with application infrastructure – MQ, Autosys, Databases (Sybase an advantage)
- Software development experience or previous close development team contact
- Java, HTML, Web skills a plus
- Perl and Shell scripting
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $80,000 – $125,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
The Quality Assurance Analyst is responsible for testing activities for the prorietary web-based application. The Quality Assurance Analyst will also participate in process improvement strategies, process documentation and compliance activities in order to ensure that periodic external audits result in favorable assessments.
A good candidate would possess the following:
· Minimum of 3 years experience in Financial Software, Quality Assurance/Audit related fields
· Create, execute, track and report on test cases for Integration Testing; Regression Testing; Quality Assurance Testing; User Acceptance Testing; Client Portfolio Regression Testing; Production Upgrade Testing; Performance Load Testing; Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Testing
· Identify the test data per use case and per test case; validate functionality based on requirements and use cases
· Validate business rules in calculation, financial planning and reporting engines
· Develop and maintain the automated testing scripts
· Knowledge of various automated tools
· Work on department-wide activities such as process improvement efforts, gather and report on quality metrics, and participate in pre-and post-implementation reviews
· Work closely with teams of business analysts, developers and testers throughout the entire development life cycle.
· Possess a good understanding of client server and web-based technology solutions and architecture
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills
· Great multi-tasking skills
Location: New York
Salary: $70,000 – $80,000
Contact:
Responsible for the successful delivery of support and development for the global LOANIQ environment:
* 3rd line/final escalation point for all LOANIQ operational and support isses – online production and development environments, user support, feed/interfaces support, batch support, reporting support
* Working closely with related teams to ensure system integrity through provision of system monitoring / alerting
* Ensure suitable Development & QA environments support and management for full regression testing
* Create and enhance online system/support documentation
* own bcp initiatives within the group – envt build , support recovery and ensuring infrasture and documentation is compliant to MS standards.
* Perform Impact Analysis and management for special events (Business and IT Events, holidays)
* Take a lead role in Regional and Global Outage Recovery calls (e.g. Code Blue / Code Red / Code App / ITC3 Outage calls), including troubleshooting, communication, and resolution
* Proactively manage the loaniq production and devt envts infrastruture – release mgmt, capacity, performance, hotfixes.
* Create adhoc reports for users
* Train other members of the DPOops team to support the LoanIQ application
Skills Required:
Experience providing technical support to LOANIQ
Experience proving 2/3rd level application support in a fast paced banking environment, preferably Lending
experience dealing with vendors and outsourced support
Understanding of follow-the-sun support rota
Experience working with customers, business analysts and other IT teams to coordinate a fix
Exposure to LOANIQ, DB2, SQL, PERL scripting, Unix/Linux, TCP/IP, Mainframe
Ability to manage outages and problems through to resolution
Sound development skills
good communication skills and ability to build relationships with users and other IT teams
Skills Desired:
General understanding of the Lending Business
MQSERIES
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $120,000 – $150,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client is seeking a junior Desk Strategists to join the front office commodities strategies team. Desk Strategists will collaborate with commodity traders on risk analysis, risk reporting, and value added trading strategies. Desk Strategists are responsible for the creation of product valuation models, data analysis, trading strategy analytics, and risk and valuation tools to be used by traders and fellow Desk Strats to better understand risk and to better identify market opportunities.
This role will be considered at the Associate level.
1)MS in a quantitative field (PhD is a plus)
2)Strong skills in applied mathematics, statistics, stochastic processes, basic knowledge of option theory, basic knowledge of financial markets. Ability to translate abstract mathematical concepts into practical solutions to every-day problems.
3)Strong hands-on technology skills are a core requirement (C++, Matlab).
4)Knowledge of Energy Markets is a plus.
5)Strong communication & collaboration skills are necessary.
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $70,000 – $115,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Municipals Evaluated Pricing Team. This high energy team is responsible supporting valuation models and systems, and providing our customers with mark-to-market prices for Municipal bonds using Company’s in-house analytics and industry renowned database. You will be joining a team of professionals with extensive and varied experience, including evaluators, traders, portfolio managers and sales people. Excellent communication skills are essential for this role as you will also, at times, assist the Sales team in presenting the service to our clients, such as banks, hedge funds, and fund managers, as well as partner with a variety of internal colleagues, including programmers, other evaluation teams and product managers. As you grow into the role, your feedback will be vital in serving the needs of clients and ensuring projects remain on track as we work towards becoming the industry leader in the evaluated pricing sector. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with solid experience and understanding of the Municipal Housing sector to aid in the development and launch of one of Company’s latest and most exciting new products.
The role is a PRICING ANALYST who will provide daily (minute by minute) data across all asset classes for an evolving product known as B-VAL.
Candidates will come out of Hedge Funds, Broker Dealers, etc. Someone who has been in the “pricing trenches”. Either Buy side OR Sell side; selling to both.
These people will support the product by providing an on line “score card” product/service with real time pricing information, gathered from the multiple source.
Qualifications:
- 10 or more years of trading, underwriting, banking, sales or price evaluation experience in the Municipal Housing sector
- Superior Excel based research and analysis skills, including the ability to create financial models and perform statistical analysis preferred
- Strong understanding of the Municipals market and pricing
- Excellent communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $110,000 – $125,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Municipals Evaluated Pricing Team. This high energy team is responsible supporting valuation models and systems, and providing our customers with mark-to-market prices for Municipal bonds using Company’s in-house analytics and industry renowned database. You will be joining a team of professionals with extensive and varied experience, including evaluators, traders, portfolio managers and sales people. Excellent communication skills are essential for this role as you will also, at times, assist the Sales team in presenting the service to our clients, such as banks, hedge funds, and fund managers, as well as partner with a variety of internal colleagues, including programmers, other evaluation teams and product managers. As you grow into the role, your feedback will be vital in serving the needs of clients and ensuring projects remain on track as we work towards becoming the industry leader in the evaluated pricing sector. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with solid experience and understanding of High Yield Municipals to aid in the development and launch of one of Company’s latest and most exciting new products.
The role is a PRICING ANALYST who will provide daily (minute by minute) data across all asset classes for an evolving product known as B-VAL.
Candidates will come out of Hedge Funds, Broker Dealers, etc. Someone who has been in the “pricing trenches”. Either Buy side OR Sell side; selling to both.
These people will support the product by providing an on line “score card” product/service with real time pricing information, gathered from the multiple source.
Qualifications:
- 10 or more years of trading, underwriting, banking, sales or price evaluation experience in the High Yield Municipals sector
- Superior Excel based research and analysis skills, including the ability to create financial models and perform statistical analysis preferred
- Strong understanding of the Municipals market and pricing
- Excellent communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $110,000 – $125,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client is seeking to hire a Global Head of Research and Structured Finance Workflow Solutions. This new senior role will take ownership of two key aspects:
- The role will be responsible for the website and the associated Solutions subscription product lines.
- The role will have responsibility for the P&L of the Research and Structured Finance business lines.
Management of the various Websites including free & subscription content
This will require understanding key client requirements as well satisfying the demand of internal users from across the Company. Taking on responsibility for the website in its entirety means to optimise the customer experience, improve operational efficiency and update a high quality dynamic website maximising their online presence.
Specific responsibilities include:
-Develop and maintain web site architecture
-Develop a system to work with key stakeholders across the company to prioritize content addition/change requests and implement those changes in a timely fashion
-Monitor site traffic and initiate and implement a formal reporting process and develop plans to increase usage
-Develop and implement a strategy for a regional website design & maintenance
-Ensure subscribers are able to find content easily and have leading edge tools to analyse the content
-Manage team of product managers to execute the above working in conjunction with IT group and Product Operations
Commercial Management of Research and Structured Finance Business Units
This will require the individual to be able to think strategically about the credit information businesses, build robust business cases to get the required investment and then to be able to execute on those business cases.
Specific responsibilities include:
-Meet Revenue targets for each business through soundly executed Go to Market Plans and marketing strategies
-Increase market visibility of Company product lines
-Develop business plans to grow revenues of each business unit
-Ensure the sales force are equipped to position and sell the Company product range to the right users with the necessary information on competing products
Requirements:
Individual must have 10+ years of similar Rating Agency experience or running research or portal management in a Ratings agency or Investment Bank.
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $130,000 – $160,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
The Associate Project Manager will work in a PMO setting, where he/she will provide project coordination, management, and administrative support. The Associate PM will assist in maintaining project plans, processes, designs and timelines. You will collect, track, and maintain project deliverables and monitor deadlines. He/she will also help to maintain/reconcile project information stored in spreadsheets, databases, and the sharepoint website. This person will generate reports to the technology development staff and management, and attend meetings to gain understanding of deliverables, status and specifications.
The Associate Project Manager will be analyzing and generating report metrics. You will work closely with developers, quality assurance, and documentation teams within the technology development group to ensure accuracy of status and timely deliverables. This person will help to identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency of the team. The Associate PM will also investigate issues requiring resolutions in order to execute assigned tasks.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Strong skills with MS Project, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio
3-5 years of experience, preferably in a software development environment
Bachelor’s degree is preferred
Strong analytical, writing, communication and problem solving skills
Excellent organizational, time management and planning skills
Acute attention to detail
Outstanding organizational skills
Ability to work independently and in a team setting
Independent worker that can handle multiple tasks
Location: Nassau County, LI
Salary: $50,000 – $70,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
