1) Corporate Wide Logistics Functions for the transportation and logistics of raw materials and finished goods. Will integrate with the Manager of Strategic Sourcing for the optimal maintenance of raw materials and finished goods supermarkets. Management, development and maintenance of manufactured finished goods and raw materials supermarkets will require frequent interaction with production Value Stream Managers. Responsible for all logistical processes within the factories to customer shipment including put-away, pick, pack and woldwide delivery. Further development of Lean principles with regard to customer replenishment will be expected.
2) Transportation, receipt, put-away, pick and delivery of raw Materials from local, regional and international supply base to the point of use. Extensive project work on internal logistics functions including standardized material delivery routes, put-away functions and pick processes will be required. Interaction with Production Value Stream Managers and Material Planners will be required for internal (line side) supermarket development and maintenance.
3) Traffic: Responsible for corporate wide evaluation of all shipping functions of Finished Goods to customer base and Raw Materials from suppliers to point of use to ensure most cost effective means of transporation utilized.
Key metrics:
Inventory Accuracy, Dock to Stock, Processed on Time, On Time and Complete, Picking/Packing Errors, Picking Productivity, Dollars Invoiced/Labor Hour, Air, Sea and Land freight costs.
1) Improve Inventory Accuracy
2) Improve timliness from completion of manufactured finished goods to Stock
3) Improve Processed on Time
4) Improve Processed on Time and Complete (to the fullest extent possible)
5) Reduce shipping costs with consideration of inventory and stock management costs.
Candidates must have 5 years demonstrated experience with Lean Principles. Extensive experience in warehousing and distribution, and worldwide freight transportation is a must.
Years Lean. 5 – 10 Years Logistics, Warehousing, Distribution.
Location: Farmingdale, NY
Salary: $150,000 – 175,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Responsibilities:
• Manage and deliver valuation services in an assigned geographic area
• Review and analyze U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) financial statements
• Research publicly traded comparable companies
• Supervise and mentor staff
• Assist in business development efforts
Qualifications:
• Five years of experience with advisory related projects, in valuations, with an audit, tax and advisory firm
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business from an accredited college/university
• Experience with valuations of business entities and intangible assets, purchase price allocations, analyzing goodwill and long lived asset impairment, supporting a company’s value for bidding or asking price plans, litigation support and financial analysis and research
• Understanding of the capital markets
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, solid analytical skills, and the ability to work well in a team environment
Candidates must currently be a Manager
The pie-in-the-sky candidate will come from a competing Big 4 firm in Boston i.e. Deloitte, PWC, or Ernst & Young.
Location: Boston, MA & Mountain View, CA
Salary: Market
Contact:Kendal Ridgeway
Global Markets Equity Production Management, are responsible for supporting Global Prime Finance, Equity Trading, Equity Derivative Trading and Risk Management systems.
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
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
