Our client is seeking a highly motivated person to join the Evaluation and Pricing Team as a Convertible Bonds Specialist.

This team is responsible for designing and supporting valuation models and systems to provide clients with evaluated prices for Convertible Bonds using our client’s in house analytics and industry renowned database. You will be joining a team of Professionals with extensive and varied experience, including traders, portfolio managers and sales people. You will also, at times, assist the sales team in presenting the service to our clients, such as banks, hedge funds, and fund managers. Excellent communication skills are vital for this role as you will be working alongside colleagues from a variety of backgrounds including programmers, senior valuation analysts and business managers. As you grow into the role, your feedback will be vital in ensuring projects are on track, serving the needs of clients, and becoming the industry leader in the evaluated pricing sector. This is an exciting opportunity for individuals with experience and understanding of Convertible Bonds to aid in the development and launch of our client’s latest and most exciting new product.

Qualifications
-Minimum of 3 years experience with convertible bonds in a risk management or middle office department at a Dealer or a Hedge Fund institution
-Advanced knowledge of convertible bonds, as well as specific features and clauses, is required
-Degree in mathematics, finance, related discipline or related work experience
-Working knowledge of Excel and Bloomberg Terminal

-Pricing skills and knowledge about the convertible bond valuation
-Ability to work with multiple groups across reporting lines
-Strong communication and verbal skills

Location: New York, NY

Salary: $150,000 – $175,000

Contact: Kendal Ridgeway

Our client, a top tier bank, is seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst. Candidates will have a strong knowledge of securities and the applications used to support financial transactions.These applications operate in a service-based architecture with internally developed code.  Requests to the service are primarily for hedge relationships under FAS133, market data, price valuation from external systems.  Business line coverage includes CMBS, MUNI, CORP, BOND securities. Candidate will need to work closely with development teams to understand changes to the architecture and bug fixes and enhancements to the service.  Successful execution of the role will require strict attention to detail around environment configuration for the regression tests, involving multiple envs and teams.  Candidate must develop effective test plans through consultation with clients and development team members (without formal Business Requirement Docs), maintain/upgrade the regression test cases, and document the process for production support. Candidate must proactively be able to troubleshoot potential testing defects and escalate accordingly. Candidate must have sufficient working knowledge of Mercury Quality Center.

 Minimum 5 years experience QA, Production Support, Operations or Investment Banking

Bachelor degree in computer science, math, finance, or a related discipline. 

Minimum five years experience in QA

Minimum 1 year experience with service-based architecture (no GUI)

Minimum 1 year experience with a securities based application.

Broad understanding of Software Configuration Management and code version control

Able to troubleshoot problems with environment setup and code issues

Ability to track and report defects, issues and overall results to peers and management

Experience managing multiple test environments

Proficient in Microsoft Excel

Project management experience managing several applications and human resources working together simultaneously.

Strong technical and analytical skills

Excellent communication skills and judgment, ability to manage multiple tasks, and work towards a deadline. 

Able to handle a fast paced, aggressive development schedule

Able to navigate effectively within Mercury Quality Center.

Desired Skills

Derivative and Securities product and market data knowledge

Production Support experience

Location: San Francisco, CA

Salary: Competitive + Bonus

Contact: Kendal Ridgeway