Project Lead - Settlements - (US-CA-Greater Los Angeles)

Project Lead – Settlements - (US-CA-Greater Los Angeles)

Compensation: $110K - $125K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: WJKJASET

If not you, would you know someone???  I will pay a finders' fee if you refer someone who is hired.

Must have: Asset Management, Settlements & Fixed Income background.

Individual will be responsible for leading settlement related initiatives while managing day to day activities of a small team of developers and business analysts. This position will be responsible for recommending strategic and tactical changes in work flows considering the integration of both third party vendor solutions and proprietary systems pertaining to middle and back office support departments. The candidate will be responsible for gathering requirements and creating functional and non-functional specifications and regularly meet with the end user to review overall effectiveness and tackle problems related to settlement functionality.

Responsibilities/Duties:
§ Act as senior business and system analyst to translate client needs into business requirements and system specifications; work with business users across functional groups to truly and systematically identify business problems and propose innovative solutions; communicate requirements to developers and provide guidance for creating test plan and test cases
§ Manage projects through software development lifecycle and deliver good quality solutions under tight schedule and budget. Coordinate with project leads and developers in pertinent IT groups for necessary changes to mitigate system dependencies and ensure successful delivery
§ Perform necessary quality assurance and acceptance test

Specifications:
§ Requires 6+ years experience in business and system analysis, writing functional and non-functional requirements for complicated business problems in financial service industry
§ Requires 5+ years experience in product or project management for complicated financial systems
§ Require good knowledge of fixed income securities, prefer specific knowledge in TBA, MBS/ABS, SWAP
§ Requires 10+ years of information systems experience, prefer in financial service industry
§ Basic knowledge of relational database environment, SQL/Oracle, and Java required
§ Microsoft Windows NT, word processing and spreadsheet applications required
§ Client-server, 3 tier architecture, and GUI development concepts preferred
Competencies:
§ Extensive business and system analysis working experience with good understanding of popular requirement management (i.e. RUP) and change control management methodologies
§ Proven ability to understand complex business process and problems, and transfer requirements to clear functional requirements and system specifications
§ Has good knowledge in asset management principles, settlements and allocation processes for complex fixed income instruments
§ Strong understanding of, or experience in, a fixed income management company or middle/back office environment required
§ Clearly understand purposes, objectives, practices and procedures of the Trade Processing, Settlements, and Fund Accounting departments and related business units
§ Has a good knowledge and experience with product and project management and familiar with various product management and software project development lifecycle methodologies
§ Proven effectiveness with leading systems development at both the strategic and hands on project management level or implementation with progressively more complex responsibilities in an investment management client focused environment
§ Has good understanding of basic technologies such as database, Java, and other front end technologies; Be able to communicate requirements in technical language and understand system dependencies in technical level

Academic Qualifications (minimum requirements):
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related; graduate degree in Finance or MBA is preferred; CFA certification is preferred.

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