Our client is 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 our client’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 our client’s latest and most exciting new products.
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
These are PRICING ANALYSTS 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.
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $175,000 – $200,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
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 is seeking a highly motivated person to join the Evaluation and Pricing Team as a Money Market Specialist.
This team is responsible for designing and supporting valuation models and systems to provide clients with evaluated prices for Money Market instruments 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 multiple business units including programming, 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 helping BVAL become the industry leader in the evaluated pricing sector.
This is an exciting opportunity for individuals with experience and understanding of Money Market instruments to aid in the development and launch of our client’s latest and most exciting new product.
Qualifications
-10 or more years of Money Market trading, sales or price evaluation experience
-Strong Excel based research and analysis skills
-Excellent communication skills
-Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Finance or related discipline or related work experience
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $175,000 – $200,000 With a Total Comp up to $225K
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client is a leading electronic marketplace for energy trading and price discovery. Our client’s transparent and efficient market structure, coupled with its secure, electronic trading platform, allows our client to provide market participants with direct access to energy futures and thousands of OTC commodity products. In addition to its globally distributed liquid electronic markets, our client offers a range of risk management tools designed to increase trading efficiency. The combination of speed, accessibility, service and information makes our client the complete energy marketplace for thousands of market participants across the globe.
We are looking for a candidate with strong mathematical and statistical skills. The ideal candidate will have experience building, integrating, and maintaining option pricing and volatility models at a major energy trading firm or bank. Swaps and options pricing knowledge and experience is mandatory, a background in modeling complex and illiquid OTC options strategies is strongly preferred. Candidates will be expected to perform valuations and update volatility curves. In addition, the candidate should have statistical experience in order to identify and analyze market patterns.
Requirements:
* Options pricing knowledge and experience mandatory
* Experience modeling option volatilities in a price validation or risk control position at a major energy trading firm or bank is preferred
* Strong statistical and mathematical skills in the area of derivatives modeling, post-graduate math degree is preferred
* Knowledge of third party analytics service is preferred
* Candidates should be able to work under pressure and within time constraints
* Programming skills: [Matlab, Java, VB]
* Strong attention to detail
* Self-motivated with the ability to complete projects independently
Location: New York, NY
Salary: Competitive
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Operational Support for Trading Systems and Users – Interest Rates Cash and Derivatives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Frontline problem resolution from trading desks.
- Production ownership of;
- B2C and B2B Trading Systems
- Trade Capture
- Pricing, Position and Risk systems (Cash & Derivatives)
- Market Connectivity and Trading infrastructure.
- Liason with Vendors and Markets for support and new products.
- Escalation / ownership of chronic technical issues in production environment. Manage system recovery with other members of the team and developers and coordinate communication with affected users.
- Work with other functional / product team to troubleshoot and resolve inter-system and cross asset class issues.
- Utilise experiences and desk knowledge to provide/assist development recommendation for system enhancement (internal developers and vendor).
- Create / Maintain / Update support documentation for trading platform.
- System administration tasks required day-to-day operations of the trading platform.
-Participate in projects and deployments. Includes product enhancement to existing markets and new business development.
Requirements:
Skills Required – Excellent Unix / Linux knowledge.
- Excellent RDMS skills (preference Sybase)
- Shell scripting and Perl/Python.
- Good knowledge of electronic financial markets. Connectivity and pub/sub understanding desirable.
- Experience with real-time pricing & risk systems would be an advantage.
- Good communication and inter-personal skills a prime requirement.
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $100,000 – $120,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
