Heavy Travel Required.

Our client has an immediate opening for an Implementation Project Manager. They are looking for someone who wants to take the next step in their career path. This position is based out of their NYC office, but heavy travel is required. You may be away for long periods of time domestically and internationally. This is a full time position. The Project Manager will be responsible for implementing their proprietary software packages and products at client sites in the Energy and Financial sectors. You will manage teams, develop project plans and budgeting, coordinate resources, and hold weekly project management meetings. The PM will also coordinate and meet delivery dates, and track project risks and issues. You will manage client relationships and ensure client satisfaction. This person will work in a team to set goals, understand client requirements and develop detailed plans. The Project Manager will act as the primary client interface and ensure consistent client satisfaction. You may be required to provide sales support and other related tasks required to support our client`s products and clients.

QUALIFICATIONS:
A BS/BA degree or higher is required
3+ years of project management experience is required; You must have experience implementing software
3+ years of experience with trading and risk management is required
MConsulting experience is required, preferably in the financial services or Energy markets
Solid understanding of application development life cycle (SDLC or TLC)
Strong skills with MS Project, Excel and Word
Excellent organizational, time management and planning skills
Acute attention to detail
Outstanding organizational skills
Ability to self start and work independently and in a team setting
Strong analytical, presentation, writing, communication and problem solving skills
Expected travel is around 75%

Location: New York, NY

Salary: $100,000 – $125,000

Contact: Kendal Ridgeway

This position is for a Global Prime Finance US regional Production Manager who will be based in New York. GPF are responsible specifically for the Prime Brokerage, Synthetic Equities, Securities Lending, Risk Management and Client Reporting applications.

Main Duties & Responsibilities　

A high profile management position responsible for guiding and directing a team of 12 that provide the day-to-day Client Services Level 1 and 2 support of 16 applications associated with Trade Acceptance, Portfolio Management (PB, IPB & SEF), Risk Management, Securities Lending and Client Reporting/Client Connectivity.

Management Responsibilities:

　　　　　　 Management experience and ability to lead and motivate a regional support team

　　　　　　 Manage the day to day activities of team, prioritize tasks and ensure that deliverables are timely

　　　　　　 Mentor and provide performance expectations and feedback to staff

　　　　　　 Build and maintain an effective, productive relationships with the user community and represent their interests to the development team

　　　　　　 Drive production issues with relevant stakeholders on a regular basis to continually improve service and stability.

　　　　　　 Drive relevant feedback into Incident, Problem and Change management programs

　　　　　　 Work with regional Asia and LN managers to contribute to and deliver on the Production Management book of work.

　　　　　　 Complete operational ownership of the applications supported:　 oversee change and releases, recommend application / architectural / infrastructure improvements, ensure adequate DR is in place, accountable for stability of the overall system.

　　　　　　 Lead during crisis management situations and effectively advise / communicate to traders as well as adequately direct the support team

Responsibility of the Team:

　　　　　　 First point of contact to resolve all production application problems

　　　　　　 Log and track all user related issues and requests

　　　　　　 Detailed knowledge of all business flows, the application architecture and the hardware configuration for supported applications

　　　　　　 Provide ad-hoc reporting and investigative support to business managers or compliance staff when existing systems are unable to provide the necessary data for these teams

　　　　　　 Provide application software and hardware support

o　　　　　　　　 Troubleshoot and research possible product bugs or failures

o　　　　　　　　 Trace transactions through the system and conduct research beyond the basic scripts and monitoring / research tools provided

o　　　　　　　　 Monitor applications and their associated hardware throughout the day using existing monitoring tools, identify intraday capacity issues

o　　　　　　　　 Write basic to intermediate scripts to support their function

o　　　　　　　　 Drive the development of tools needed to provide effective support

o　　　　　　　　 Define new operating system, infrastructure, application and business oriented monitoring alerts and coordinate their integration into existing monitoring tools

o　　　　　　　　 Escalate all unresolved issues to senior management

　　　　　　 Own the production environment and act as gate keeper for all changes:

o　　　　　　　　 Approve all new releases and production configuration changes

o　　　　　　　　 Ensure development includes all necessary documentation for each CR:　 release notes, test plan + scorecard, backout procedures etc.

o　　　　　　　　 Implement all releases into production, conduct post-release testing

o　　　　　　　　 Execute pre-determined back-out procedures (if required)

o　　　　　　　　 Conduct reviews of all open production items with the dev team

o　　　　　　　　 Conduct post-mortems

o　　　　　　　　 Define and document procedures

Requirements:

2+ years managing a support desk

5 years technical experience

3 years financial industry experience supporting Prime Finance applications

Complete understanding of incident, problem & change management principles

Equities experience

Job Specific Skills

Thorough understanding of:

·　　　　　　　　　 Shell or Perl scripting

·　　　　　　　　　 SQL

·　　　　　　　　　 Unix

Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

Ability to Multitask

Ability to perform and communicate under pressure

Weblogic / Application servers

Java

Education / Professional Qualifications / Certifications:

College education

Knowledge of ITIL processes

Location: New York, NY

Salary: $130,000 – $165,000

Contact: Kendal Ridgeway

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

Requirements:

Experience with the FIX protocol .
A basic understanding of TCP/IP, network infrastructure and firewall.
Linux
SQL/Sybase
Candidate should possess excellent communication and relationship building skills.
Self-motivated, enthusiastic and flexible team player.
Good troubleshooting skills, logical thinker, customer focused.
Candidate is required to be proactive in resolving immediate problems while balancing the need to keep on track the strategic initiatives.

Ability to perform under pressure without losing composure is key.

Skills Desired

Shell and perl scripting.
Experience working with electronic trading product offerings.
Understanding of financial markets including Cash/Futures/Options/FX and securities trading .
Experience working on a client facing team.
Experience of change control procedures.

Location: New York, NY

Salary: $100,000 – $140,000

Contact: Kendal Ridgeway

Responsibilities will include:
- Providing high-level analytical expertise to clients, our sales force, and product developers.
- Directly impacting sales by on-site meetings with clients and prospects where you can present unique solutions
- Influencing the direction of our product by providing feedback to  business managers on user demand, market practices and product enhancements
- Furthering the knowledge of our sales force through intensive internal training and seminars
- Educate clients by presenting at local and regional seminars, professional market events and industry conferences.
- Discussing Corporate, Treasury, Agency and Money-market instruments with buy and sell-side clients

Qualifications:
-Minimum of 7 years of experience in the Fixed Income Markets
-Substantial experience in the Corporate, Treasury or Agency bond Markets
-Basic understanding of the fixed income derivative markets (both Rates & Credit) is necessary
-Experience in sales is desirable
-Ability to develop and maintain client relationships
-Exemplary presentation, training and communication skills
-Willing to travel extensively

Location: New York, NY

Salary: $125,000 – $140,000

Contact: Kendal Ridgeway

Requirements:

Ability to function in a high pressure environment,
Excellent communication skills
Ability to prioritize,
Strong Unix, FIX and SQL knowledge.
Equity trading knowledge a plus (series 7 and/or 63 licenses)

Skills Desired

Experience working on a trading floor supporting electronic trading and risk systems.
Knowledge of equities trading and trade flow.
XML, PERL

Skill Proficiency: Intermediate

Location: New York, NY

Salary: $90,000 – $135,000

Contact: Kendal Ridgeway

General Project Management and Leadership

Provides project management leadership using methodology standards that is aligned with the policies and procedures of Company

Integrates activities with other Company departments (as appropriate, e.g, IT, Profit Center) to ensure successful implementation & support of project efforts

Lead and manage project team(s) throughout the project lifecycle

Scope Management

Ensure the project scope is adequately defined and project executed to address scope/objectives of project

Works closely with project sponsors (business & IT) to ensure requirements are complete, accurate and measurable

Time Management

Ensure that appropriate estimates (with associated details to defend) are prepared and maintained for project efforts

Establish & maintain detail project work plan(s) within Primavera needed for scheduling, tracking and monitoring project progress/results

Ensure that project resources (business, IT & vendor) time estimates are adequately loaded into Primavera workplan and that the results agree to project baseline cost estimates – thereafter, forecasts are managed based on actuals (timesheet entry) and updates to the Primavera workplan.

Financial Management

Ensure that initial project estimates & financial forecasts are complete with sufficient level of detail to support baseline estimates

Throughout project, ensure that project budget/actuals are accounted for accurately, completely and timely

Review developed business case and perform periodic review (with assistance as needed) to ensure that business case objectives/goals are managed/obtained

Communicate / report financial performance throughout project lifecycle

Quality Management

Ensures that project approach deploys adequate quality assurance techniques in accordance with our client’s standards

Provides oversight/management of program defect tracking and associated resolution

Participates in Corporate PMO quality / assurance reviews as necessary, with specific timeframes correlated to project major milestone delivery dates, including end of planning/initiation

Obtain project approvals of key milestone deliverables in accordance to our client’s PMO standards (e.g., Design/Building Permits, UAT Acceptance and Go Live)

Resource Management

Promotes proper resource management via detail primavera workplan with resource forecasted at appropriate levels

Monitors & communicates resource utilization (including negotiating resource contention)

Provides　& coaching of project team members

Communication Management

Institutes effective project related internal and external communication

Escalates and resolves issues via proper communication channels

Risk Management

Timely identifies, tracks, manages and resolves project issues and risks

Procurement Management

Manages vendor(s)/contractor(s)/consultant(s) relationships and rules of engagement

Requirements:

Successful Candidate must have:

Minimum 5 years experience in project management in mainframe environment; must include people management and management of project teams.

Technical experience with COBOL, JCL, CICS.　

Experience with principles of wrapping logic, services, service layers.　

Understanding of principles relating to middleware components.

Experience with relational databases and use of SQL queries for data retrieval.

Understanding of use of XML, MQseries, FTP, web development principles.

Minimum 3 years in financial services; life insurance preferred.

Demonstrated strong customer service ethic.

Additional Preferred Experience:

Experience in significant successful projects involving design and implementation of revamp of legacy systems.

Some experience with distributed systems, understand web technology and architecture.

Education:

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.　 Additionally, a Project Manager I must have successfully completed the following Project Management classes sponsored by the Corporate Project Management Office (or equivalent):

PM Foundations

Primavera Basics

Location: New York, NY

Salary: $115,000 – $130,000

Contact: Kendal Ridgeway

 Requirements:

1. Development experience, prior to becoming a technology manager. Full software development life cycle.

2. Architecture definition background. Architecture implementation background, with emphasis on qualifying, evaluating and selecting system components for implementing architecture.

3. Product integration and/or custom software integration experience at an enterprise level, as a developer and as technology manager. Valuable experience normally comes from having been through the process of delivering 1-2 years implementation, while making technical and personnel decisions on advancing the project through difficulties. Key personal trade is to poses technology knowledge at a high level to foresee and prevent issues, or apply it manage the teams through such issues.

4. Ability to envision and create contingency technology plans, to keep projects on track.

5. Ability to set clear technology-realization goals

6. Ability to manage remote team to established goals; ability to recover from unmanageable situations

 Additional characteristics

1. 10 years of technology experience, spanning from Client/Server systems to Distributed Messaging Systems, to Web-enabled applications

2. Healthcare IT experience, is not a must, but learning curve will be at mid-level

3. Orientation towards message-oriented, multiple format, mutiple server systems where information is routed from node to node, is the most important. It gives the right technology foundation to this job

4. Orientation towards developing test automation tools is complementary

5. Knowledge in Oracle 10-11g/SQL Server 2005, SOA, Interfaces design (object-oriented, web services), Message Routing, Object Modeling/UML 2.0,

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Salary: $130,000 – $150,000

Contact: Kendal Ridgeway

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

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