Middle Office Manager NYC

Code DMOMJFJA5

VP  110- 130k  and Director Level  Salary Open

 

 

Job Description

 seeking an individual who will report to the US Head of Operations and support the development of and transition to the next generation service delivery platform.

 

Initially, this individual will be the manager of the US based Performance Measurement and Analytics Team.  In addition to managing the daily production process and reporting cycles, this position will be responsible for streamlining and enhancing the underlying control processes of this function to dramatically improve timeliness, efficiency and accuracy. 

 

Going forward it is expected this individual will assume a broader management role within the next generation middle office.

 

Background:

Asset Management Group Technology and Operations US is undergoing a significant transformation.  It has transitioned its back office operations functions to a number of internal and external service providers. 

 

The “Next Generation” strategy is to enhance the middle office service delivery platform which includes the following major disciplines:

 

·         Management and delivery of sophisticated services that support the Asset Management business process. 

·         Management and oversight of the service provider network, including day to day partnership with a captive offshore team.

·         Disciplined implementation and integration of new processes to support business growth.

·         Re-engineering of processes to improve efficiency, drive technology requirements, and enable funding of future platform investments.  

·         Partnership with the Asset Management business to gather requirements and execute on strategy.  

 

To deliver on this strategy,  is seeking to enrich the current talent base by adding Director and VP level individuals who offer the following skills and experience:

 

·         10 or more years of experience in the Financial Services Industry

·         Good knowledge of all financial market instruments; how they behave and operate

·         Experience in organizational transformations and change management

·         Proven ability to develop and drive a vision; strong program management skills

·         Demonstrated leadership and team building skills; ability to mobilize people towards a vision

·         Strong relationship management and communication skills; accustomed to interacting with Portfolio Managers and Analysts

·         Ability to interpret business strategy and then identify and implement service and process to satisfy the strategy.

·         Experience with vendor and remote resource management

·         Results oriented

 

 Education

MBA – desirable

 

 

 

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Business Manager NYC

C ode DBMJFJA6 

Location NYC

 

AVP Level  95-110K

 

 

 

Securities Project Services is responsible for managing all Change the Bank work across the Debt and Equity operations within IBO.  We have more than 100 team members in seven countries.  The candidate will be responsible for the financial reporting of each of the projects managed by this team.  Specifically: Provide ongoing financial support to CIO, senior managers and all program and project managers globally in SPS.  This includes tracking of actual costs and forecasting. Work with business management to explain all variances between project plans and actual figures and provide assistance with any intra-IBO plan transfers or allocations. Coordinate the annual financial planning process for SPS and manage the ongoing quarterly forecasting (QRM) process. Provide monthly project costs to SPS project managers to facilitate effective cost management of projects.  This includes direct costs and indirect costs from our service providers.  Act as a liaison between project managers and reporting systems to coordinate and amend plans during the planning process and regular forecasting cycles. Provide implementation support for new project governance initiatives such as Project Portfolio Management and Governed Execution. Assist project managers in completing monthly project status reports. Work with IBO central management team to produce client reports. Work with BAC to obtain vendor and P&L reports. Create allocation matrices on a monthly basis to recover provider costs 100% by allocating to correct investment banking divisions. High level of interaction with SPS project managers as well as IT, BAC, HR and IBO central management. Track headcount, new hires into and leavers from SPS.  This includes FTEs as well as contractor and consultant staff.

§         Highly numerate §         Strong written and verbal communication skills §         Highly organized §         Can operate independently §         Must be detail oriented §         Strong analytical skills     §         Accounting experience beneficial §         Working knowledge of Cognos Plan / Project / Forecast / Project Forecast modules §         Working knowledge of Acorn and Essbase §         Must be proficient in MS Excel, Project and Power Point   §         Business management experience §         Project management experience

 

 

 

 

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Relationship Manager NYC CODE DREMGRJFJA7

 

Location NYC,

 

Salary 95-130

 

AVP/VP Level

 

 

 

Job Summary

This is an excellent opportunity for a high performer to join the newly formed Transaction Management Group (TMG) based in London, New York and Hong Kong. TMG is a Middle Office support function for the Global Markets division. It has a Global remit covering all major investment banking products. It has a headcount of over 1,000 team members performing key activities such as Trade Capture, Life Cycle management and T+0 flash PandL.   Reporting directly into the Head of TMG Offshore Services, this role is key to the success and growth of the TMG offshore enterprise in India and Manila. The successful candidate will be accountable for actively growing, retaining and nurturing offshore opportunities using relationships with regional customer base. Once projects have been initiated to support the transition life cycle ensuring all migrations are delivered on time, in scope and within budget.   This is a high profile role and it is essential that the incumbent is effective at dealing with senior management. That he/she can win commitment to implementing /changing policy or process.

 

Primary Responsibilities

·         Regional onshore (London, NY or Hong Kong) relationship manager for the TMG offshore centre and services. Understand your client’s product, process and structure. ·         Partner your other regional counterparts to proactively expand the relationship through the cross-selling of services ·         Remain accessible to your client base. Provide regular and transparent feedback on project status. ·         Understand the macro concepts influencing change within TMG and offshore arena, such as departmental strategic objectives and/or external regulatory or competitive influence. ·         Educate clients to ensure full understanding of offshore environment. This will include publishing risks/issues, successes and services offered. ·         Conduct, facilitate and arrange activities promoting the offshore investment proposition for TMG. ·         Own and manage project initiation for your region, product or process ·         Partner internal groups to ensure effective and efficient project planning, resourcing and implementation. All project migrations should be delivered on time, in scope and within budget. ·         Host regular project review meetings for your region/product to monitor progress, identify risks, document actions, and assign ownership. ·         Lead from the front to resolve risks or issues.

 

Primary Working Relationships

·       The individual will report to the Head of TMG Offshore Services ·       Build and maintain relationships with the following groups; Product/Regional heads, SOM PMO, Legal, Tax, Technology, Human Resources, Ops Risk, and offshore Vendors / Captive Management.

 

Job Requirements

·      Prior related industry experience preferably in an Investment Banking capacity. ·      Self starter with an entrepreneurial spirit. The ability to work independently or in a team, sometimes on a remote basis across functional and regional silos to deliver objectives. ·      Experience of managing client relationships would be valuable ·      Experience of outsourcing transitions or change management projects is preferred. ·      Candidates with operational background coupled with experience of continuous improvement initiatives are encouraged to apply ·      Proven negotiation, mediation and conflict management skills. ·      Strong communication and people management skills demonstrated through previous roles ·      Excellent command of the English language. ·      Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, strong Word and Excel skills required ·      Culturally aware. Experience of working in a Global environment preferable. ·      Candidate must be prepared to travel

 

 

 

 

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QA Manager 75K.

 Location: Midtown Manhattan

QUALITY ASSURANCE

Quality Assurance Manager 

Client is seeking a Quality Assurance Manager for its Web Production and Development department. Responsibilities include guiding and ensuring the execution and monitoring of all projects. The ideal candidate will bring an in-depth understanding of existing QA methodologies to implement and maintain a coherent, progressive QA strategy.

• Manage the QA efforts in the design, implementation and execution phases.
• Communicate QA progress and status on a project basis.
• Manage and maintain project schedules in MS Project.
• Monitor defects for tracking and reporting.
• Develop and in-depth, detailed understanding of engineering and operations architecture to support developers in applying debugging tools to assist in early detection of defects/design issues.
• Implement best practices to ensure standards to measure the quality of product deliverables.
• Manage and mentor team of QA Analysts to ensure they have the support to rapidly grow their abilities.
• Participate in root cause analysis for defects/design issues and provide process improvement suggestions to eliminate future occurrences of similar defects/issues.
• Quickly and effectively assess customer impact for customer facing issues.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 3 years management experience, including management of a 5+ person team.
• Minimum 8 years experience in Software Quality Assurance with a proven track record in developing and implementing a successful quality strategy for web-based technologies.
• Strong technical leadership and project management skills, including testing effort estimation tracking and risk management.
• Strong background in Software Engineering and Quality Assurance techniques, process, practices and methodologies.
• Understanding of the Internet (HTML, XML, etc).
• Results-oriented approach to problem solving.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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(4) Sr. Java Developers Jersey City $110-140K Base

CODE WJKJA4096

NEED STRONG AGILE DEVELOPERS FROM ANY INDUSTRY

 

Location: Jersey City….

 

(4) Sr. Java Developers – (2) for Search Engine (Python is a+ for these 2)

(2) for Lead Gen Div.

(and possibly 2 more…!)

 

$110 – 140K Base, Plus Large Bonuses, Stock Options…

 

Contribute to the stability and extensibility of our existing software—a consumer and business facing web presence, as well as an automated information interchange layer for acquiring and distributing data—while adding exciting new features as part of an agile development process. We work with short milestones, iterative improvements, and a gusto for refactoring.  A successful candidate will have demonstrable success creating testable, clear, reliable code in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

 

Job Requirements:

• Delivers extensible, testable code toward improvements and new features for an existing J2EE application as part of weekly milestones and an iterative development plan
• Voracious appetite for absorbing and applying the cutting edge to solving problems
• Experience developing a project made more successful with full coverage unit tests
• Someone who can both mentor and learn from the team in the same day
• Has fun collaborating with other technologists
• Confident written and verbal communication skill

Experience:

• 8 or more years programming experience  (experienced people)
• Good understanding of application servers (Web Logic, Web Sphere or Oracle 10gAS)
• Excellent understanding and experience with JAVA technologies including some of the following J2EE APIs JDBC, JSP custom tags, Servlet API, EJB's, Jars, Ears, Deployment Descriptors, Message Queuing (JMS), ANT, JUNIT, open source frameworks like Spring or Hibernate, Apache Struts 4, Design Patterns, Frameworks, Ability to re-factor code to extract common patterns (GoF must), Database, XML, XSD and other XML technologies, Strong Agile skills
• Experience in XML, XSL, HTML technologies including working experience in online transactional based systems
• Basic concepts of relational database systems
• Good understanding of algorithms and ability to transform design into code
• 3-tier web application development (J2EE would be great)
• Server-side web services a plus
• Source control, build tools, automated deployment, and IDE
• In-depth knowledge of object-oriented approaches in designing, coding, testing and debugging programs in Java or C++
• Experience with multiple operating systems and languages is mandatory
• Experience with high performance, scalable engineering is mandatory
• Experience with open source tools and platforms is mandatory

 

 

 

 

 

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Project Manager / Business Analyst Whippany NJ base 110k TC around 140k can go higher Management consulting background is a good fit.

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SBNRJA44

 

We are seeking a senior business analyst with project management skills. The candidate will not manage anyone, he or she will manage the process. We are seeking someone with with 7 to 10 years of total experience. Candidates coming from management consulting companies will be considered as long as they have the strong BA/PM skills. Candidates from management consulting companies do not need to have the securities processing background, but it is preferred.

 

 

Project Manager/Business Analyst

 

Area:  Prime Brokerage Technology

 

 

Description:

 

The individual will be responsible for driving projects across prime brokerage technology.  Individual will work on budgets, project plans and day to day tracking and management reporting for these projects.  The person will interact with the business unit and technology staff across multiple groups to ensure success in all phases of SDLC including planning, development, user acceptance and deployment. 

 

Primary functions/activities:

• Help build the budget and track projects through the budget process
• Work closely with business sponsors to understand business drivers and collaborate with technical team-members to develop solutions strategy.
• Work closely with technology and product development teams to identify needs and develop requirements.
• Maintain projects in accordance with the SDLC process.
• Interact with developers, QA/deployment, corporate security and infrastructure groups to ensure implementation as per specification.

 

Experience/Skills:

 

• Experience in financial industry / securities processing
• Strong analytical skills.  Ability to understand underlying business drivers, organization imperatives, and ask the right questions to ensure the complete discovery of product features and requirements.
• Strong verbal and written skills to ensure proper project communication and documentation.
• Must be able to work in a team environment with a strong desire to see the team succeed.
• Strong understanding of full development life cycle
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Products, Visio
• Strong understanding of web based applications and rich user interfaces.
• 5-7 years experience in project management/business analysis

 

 

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Cash Management Associate, NYC CODE WJKJACASH

 

 

Cash Management Associate

To $60K; up to 25% Bonus

Need a sharp 4-year grad doing this….

 

• Perform daily cash reconciliations for fixed income products prov9ded by external custody groups
• Liaison with fixed Income Traders and portfolio Managers reviewing and providing cash projection figures
• Correspond and communicate with internal back office reconciliation and trade support groups in addition to external custodians resolving outstanding items.
• Process cash movements and provide notification to interested parties
• Work on ad hoc projects in addition to daily responsibilities

 

Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree with 1-3 years experience in a related role. Fixed Income is preferred, but will consider Equities experience
• Understanding of fixed income instruments: Mortgages, Treasury, Corporates, EMD, HY, etc.
• Working knowledge of systems including InvestOne (preferred) Smart Stream, MSOffice, Bloomberg. Knowledge of Custody systems is a plus
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, as well as detail oriented
• Excellent organizational, follow up and problem solving skills
• High level of speed and accuracy in a fast-paced environment, despite multiple interruptions and priorities
• Team Player

 

 

 

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Help Desk for NYC Hedge Fund

 

1)       Help Desk – NY (full time)

·         Experience with Blackberry OS and BES Server

·         Candidate should be able to navigate Active Directory, such as adding group memberships, resetting passwords, disable user accounts

·         Familiar with VoIP technology including Cisco Call Manager and Unity Voice Mail software

·         Familiarity with Cisco network equipment and basic functionality

·         Strong troubleshooting experience with Office Suite and Windows XP

·         Trade Floor experience strongly preferred

·         Experience with HP printers including digital sending software configuration

·         Familiarity with Dell and IBM hardware

·         Strong Trading applications experience with Reuters and Bloomberg

 

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