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 seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Municipals Evaluated Pricing Team.
This high energy team is responsible for supporting valuation models and systems, and providing our customers with mark-to-market prices for Municipals 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 Municipals to aid in the development and launch of one of our client’s latest and most exciting new products.
Qualifications
-Minimum of 5 years experience in trading, underwriting, banking, sales or price evaluation in the 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: $90,000 – 100,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client is seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Municipals Evaluated Pricing Team.
This high energy team is responsible for supporting valuation models and systems, and providing our customers with mark-to-market prices for Municipals 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 Municipals to aid in the development and launch of one of our client’s latest and most exciting new products.
Qualifications
-Minimum of 5 years experience in trading, underwriting, banking, sales or price evaluation in the 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: $100,000 – 125,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Excellent opportunity for a flexible, composed & consultative analyst with strong interpersonal, research & project management skills to work closely with the CEO to gather, analyze & develop recommendations for strategic project initiatives for a global trading & risk management software company.
RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:
Analyzing competitive environments
Performing financial & business due diligence
Provide advisory information to management
Preparing recommendations for new systems, procedures or organizational changes
REQUIRED SKILLS:
3+ yrs operational, technical or finance management experience
Bachelor’s degree required/MBA preferred
Strong analytical & problem solving skills
Excellent written and oral presentation skills
Ability to work in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
Location: Long Island, NY
Salary: Competitive
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
The selected Sales Account Manager will play an integral role in promoting Our client’s inter-dealer trading platform with an emphasis on post trade tools. They are seeking candidates with a dynamic personality to be responsible for building, developing and maintaining relationships with potentially new and existing Institutional Clients, mainly traders and middle office at Investment banks.
This includes meeting individuals or groups of clients to demonstrate their product; Our client’s REALTIME trading platform and post trade technology, tailoring your relationship to meet their specific requirements and/or preferred style of communication.
Delivering professional and polished presentations to potential and existing clients as well as internal staff.
Creation of training materials for new and existing functionality.
Handling launches of new functionality including scheduling, product demos, execution, and follow up.
Working closely with the product management team to promote the company’s technology products internally and externally
Creating and maintaining relevant documents including call reports, project timelines, product one-pagers, PowerPoint presentations, launch and roll out plans.
Liaising with the Database team to create/modify reports to help monitor and highlight screen usage.
Collating customer and market feedback to create innovative and impactful product suggestions
Working closely with all internal groups; brokers, product management and support team to maximize client relationships
Skills/Experience Required
Excellent communication, interpersonal and client facing skills with the ability to build rapport and network with a range of clients and third parties.
Self starter with ability to set and reach targets
Degree educated
Relevant financial services experience
Exposure to Markit or Bloomberg would be an advantage
Ability to work in a high pressure and ever-changing environment and balance multiple priorities
Effectively manage multiple projects, while meeting specific targets
Experience in conflict resolution
Detail oriented
Proficient in Excel
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $75,000 – 85,000 + Generous Bonus
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
This is the opportunity to push your career and your product visionary expertise to the next level! Utilize your technical savvy to help define future versions of our highly-sophisticated OTC trading solutions. You will also gain valuable experience in emerging IM technologies and messaging architectures, as well as the white hot energy commodities market. Your proven experience will be rewarded with an environment that encourages true teamwork, solves real problems, and delivers innovation to the energy markets.
Our client is a peer-to-peer, bilateral trading network that directly connects hedge funds, energy companies, broker/dealers and investment banks. They are headquartered in New York City and has a client base of more than 170 firms.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Develop and maintain relationship with key contacts at each account.
Develop relationship with our client’s users at each account firm and ensure they are fully trained on the product.
Uncover growth potential and new business opportunities at each account.
Educate users on new features and find up-sale opportunities.
Work closely with Sales Executive to help close new business then become the main client contact after deal is signed.
Gain feedback from end users to aid in the future development of our client’s products.
REQUIREMENTS
High energy, proactive self starter and strong team player. Desire to win and attracted to challenges
Ability to prioritize tasks efficiently in a very fast-paced and challenging work environment
Excellent presentation and customer service skills
Bachelor degree from an accredited university
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $60,000 – 80,000 Plus Commission and Bonus
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client is seeking someone to work with their customers, financial consultants and software engineers to conceptualize, analyze and design financial market enhancements to our client’s trading, risk management and back office software.
TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
To assess marketplace, via existing or potential clients to identify functional gaps within the application
To perform cost/benefit analyst to identify enhancements for consideration for existing or potential clients
Expected to have extensive knowledge about financial markets such as Fixed Income, Interest Rate Derivatives, Equities, Money markets, Precious Metals, FX, Credit Derivatives, back Office Operations
Knowledge of other financial trading, risk management and back office software systems is preferred
To convert user requirements and functional gaps into detailed software functional specifications that will be written using structured analysis and design techniques consistent with our technical architecture
Work closely with the software developers to ensure that enhancements are implemented in a proper and consistent manner
Consult with clients to demonstrate how the systems functionally can satisfy their business requirements
Support sales efforts by performing demos, workshops and responding to RFI/RFPs
Document major enhancements to the software, to be used by the Documentation team in the creation of user guides
Create test plans for major enhancements to the software, to be used by the QA teams for future regression testing
Provide internal training classes on existing and new functionality
The role involves domestic and international travel (up to 25%)
KEY SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES:
Excellent interpersonal communications
Problem solving
Self-starting and self-managing
Client facing skills
Flexibility
Resilient and calm under pressure
Implementer/finisher
Good written and presentation skills
Time management
Organized
Dedicated, decisive, and dynamic
Dependable, loyal and trustworthy
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
2 years within the financial markets (back, middle, or front office)
Extensive knowledge of some or all of the following markets- Interest Tate Derivatives, Fixed Income, Money Markets, Equities, Precious Metals, FX or Credit Derivatives
Strong math or quantitative background
Experience in designing a trading/risk management/back office software package
Credit and market risk knowledge is a plus
Technical/specification writing
First degree in business, finance math or computers
Second degree or masters is a plus
Knowledge of standard messaging services such as, SWIFT desirable
Proficient with MS office applications
Understanding of relational databases (e.g. Access, Sybase, Oracle) and SQL
Knowledge of programming languages such as, C/C++/VB/Java is a plus
Software Systems user or analyst with previous experience within a complex trading/risk management environment
Location: Long Island, NY
Salary: Competitive
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client is seeking a Senior Consultant as part of their growing FNA client services group, implementing trading, risk management and straight-through-processing (STP) software. The existing team comprises of personnel with backgrounds in trading, software consulting, and IT development for investment banks. This is a challenging role for an enthusiastic problem solver, looking to leverage and apply their 3+ years in system implementation via a background in IT project management, business analysis, or as an end user from trading or operations.
The role includes the coordination and running of Business analysis and gap analysis phases and also being be the team leader on implementation of the software, eventually transferring this knowledge to the clients designated “super-users.” As such the role is “hands on” and requires the individual to become an expert in the software functionality allied to both a product and business process knowledge.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
3-5+ years experience with a financial services institution (in IT, Back, Middle, or Front Office)
Extensive product knowledge of at least one of the following markets- Interest Rate Derivatives, Fixed Income, Money Markets, Equities, Precious Metals, FX, or Credit Derivatives
Project experience of systems implementation: requirements gathering, business analysis, and/or testing
Knowledge of other financial trading, risk management, and back office software systems is a clear plus
Previous experience working on implementation or daily use of competing systems is a strong plus
Strong math or quantitative background is essential
Proficiency with Microsoft excel, ability to write VBA macros is a plus
Minimum bachelor’’s degree in business, finance, math or computer science coupled with demonstrated high academic achievement.
Graduate degree is a plus
Ability to thrive under pressure and work well within a team
Excellent communication, organization and first-class customer-facing skills are essential
Extensive travel– the successful candidate will be expected to work at client sites the majority of the time
Location: Long Island, NY
Salary: Competitive
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client is looking for a highly motivated, creative and competent Java Analyst Programmer who relishes a real business/technology challenge. You will be required to work with their core development team in Long Island. The successful applicant will have at least 6 years of commercial development experience, with a strong emphasis in design and will join a small focused team designing and developing a next-generation Data Grid application for our client’s cross platform trading and risk management solution. Knowledge of and experience in the development of Java SE application is essential. Experience with in-memory data grid products such as Oracle Coherence would be a distinct advantage. Client-facing skills could be an advantage since some developments may involve customer specifications. You will need to travel occasional internationally, since this role is part of the team located out of their London Office.
REQUIREMENTS:
Degree in Computer Science or numerate subject
Solid Java SE development life-cycle experience, and a proven track record of designing, coding, and delivering applications
Experience with Object Oriented design and analysis tools/processes & design patterns
A self-starter with excellent written and verbal communication skills
At least 6 years commercial experience with Java, and ideally some experience with C#/C++
Experience with Ant, JDBS, XML, & multi-threading
Experience with relational databases & SQL useful (Oracle or SQL server)
Ideally, knowledge of or interest in Commodities, Capital markets or treasury
Ideally, experience with in-memory data grids
Experience performing installations and training at client sites
Experience working in a test-driven development environment
Must be willing to do some travel
Location: Long Island, NY
Salary: Competitive
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client is looking for the “jack-of-all-trades” who has the drive to take on challenges that require constant learning.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Development and continual maintenance of our core trading product
This individual will implement the full life cycle, from inception, to design and implementation and delivery
REQIREMENTS:
Must have 4+ years of strong experience in C/C++
C# experience is desired, but not required
Excellent problem solving skills are required
Excellent communication skills are required
Looking for an organized, detail-oriented individual, who is able to work under pressure and multi-task in a fast paced environment
BS in Computer Science is required
Location: Long Island, NY
Salary: Competitive
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
