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posted by Unknown at 12:02 PM
| Position Description: New York City Sr. Business Analyst to work within the AI Reporting, Valuation and Planning team. Key Responsibilities: - Gather/Define the business requirements from clients - Write business process documents, system analysis documents, functional documents, technical documents, test cases and project plans - Responsible for interfacing with the development team in the explanation of requirements and will be expected to perform the QA role during the application testing - Interface with clients to define and track requirements - Provide production support to clients and track issues to resolution - Develop ad-hoc reports for clients to meet their tactical needs - Participating in application and database design - Draft report prototypes using tools such as Crystal Reports, MS Word or Excel for clients and development team - Handle SQL programming skills in building application functionality on occasion - Performing the QA role to test new application releases from development team - Participate in entire SDLC process - Channel business-critical issues to vendor’s support team for quick resolution - Participate and assist in data model design process - Maintain constant communication with other team members, technical manager and the team in Offshore |
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| Qualifications |
| Experience and Skills Required/Desired: Required Work Experience: - At least 5+ years of experience as BA responsible for enterprise system working in/for Investment Banking domain - Manage financial systems and provide liaison function with business units and technology teams - Experience with custom application development projects involving MS-SQL and Microsoft .NET platforms - Requirements gathering techniques (Interviewing or JAD Facilitation) - Experience in producing project plans and exposed to SDLC Required Technical/Business Skills and Knowledge: - Good oral & written skills - Ability to use SQL for QA and proof-of-concept Desirable Technical/Business Skills and Knowledge: - Experience with Business Information Tools and delivery such as Reporting Services, Performance Point, Excel - Concentrated industry expertise in financial services (Private Equity) or accounting - Financial reporting Required Education and Professional Qualifications: - BS in Analytical Subject (Computer Science) Desirable Education and Professional Qualifications: - MS in Computer Science/MIS or MBA in IT & Finance |
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posted by Unknown at 11:18 AM
| Position Description: Senior QA professional responsible for the overall coordination of front to back testing for complex messaging based repo architecture. Key Responsibilities: - Enhance, formalize and automate QA procedures for the above environment - Assist in the diagnosis, resolution, and escalation of technical and business processing issues within the UAT environment - Drive application and adoption of QA automation tools such as QTP, - Follow SDLC+ development methodology and best practice |
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| Qualifications |
| Experience and Skills Required/Desired: Required Work Experience: - 7+ years experience with QA process - 5+ years experience development for front or back office investment banking trading systems Required Technical/Business Skills and Knowledge: - Strong knowledge of QA process and automation techniques - Strong troubleshooting knowledge on unix and windows platform, including messaging middleware - Strong working knowledge large front office trading systems - Working knowledge of messaging infrastructure, ideally MQ Series and - Working SQL, ideally in both Oracle and Sybase platforms - Ability to coordinate across teams and across locations/timezones Desirable Technical/Business Skills and Knowledge: - Knowledge of fixed income repo markets and bond markets. Required Education and Professional Qualifications: - BS / BA in Computer Science or equivalent |
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posted by Unknown at 11:17 AM
The position is located downtown NYC.
This position is in the Private Client Group, which deals with high net worth individuals. Candidates should have experience dealing with insurance in this market.
This role is dedicated to the management, analysis and reporting of the catastrophe perils and the company’s exposure to potential events.
DESCRIBE THE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POSITION
· Data Quality Assessment
· Exposure Management
· Portfolio Assessment, management and optimization
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
· Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
· 5+ years business experience
· Results driven with excellent communication and presentation skills
· Influence Management: ability to deal with management and staff at all levels and functions
· Strong qualitative and quantitative analytical abilities
· Meeting management skills, able to control large groups in a meeting environment towards common goals and objectives
· Experience coaching and training staff
· Strong Excel and Access database skills
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posted by Unknown at 11:00 AM
The position is located downtown NYC.
This position is in the Private Client Group, which deals with high net worth individuals. Candidates should have experience dealing with insurance in this market. Their main competitors are Chubb and Farmers.
They are looking for an Excess Flood and Earthquake Product Manager. This is a newly created role. The description is below. The role will work with the underwriting team to figure out new products for this area. Looking for someone with 10-15 years experience and someone with underwriting background.
DESCRIBE THE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POSITION
Core deliverables are:
1. Achieve profit and growth goals
2. Define the product strategy and roadmap
3. Underwriting support for the field underwriting and marketing teams
4. Audit responsibility
5. New product development and enhancement
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posted by Unknown at 10:52 AM
| Must come from good schools, polished, and have global experience |
| Position- INVESTOR RELATIONS MANAGER | |
| Job Id (Use when Referring to Position): | JS4463 |
| Job Type: | FTP |
| Location: | New York NY |
| Experience: | 0 - 0 |
| Compensation: | $0.00 - $110,000.00 |
| Job Description: | The role of this position is to provide support for the US investor relations activities of our EEMA Depositary Receipt clients. Responsibilities: -Generating DR program performance analyses. -Conducting company, industry and country-specific research and analysis. -Keeping informed of U.S. capital market developments and trends related to our issuers -Advising European issuers on US/DR investor relations strategy and initiatives: Reviewing issuers' US investor relations initiatives and advising on implementation of specific DR strategies. Investor targeting and shareholder base analysis. Arranging buy-side meetings (in conjunction with Institutional Investor Access). Advising on retail investor relations activities. Performing investor relations website reviews and making recommendations for change. Other related IR initiatives -Hosting regional-specific meetings for the European Relationship Management team to discuss upcoming projects, trends and issuer needs. -Development of MA&A projects (e.g., conferences, papers, promotional materials, etc.) -Attending client presentations and providing overview of team/group services. International travel required. Skills: -Online targeting tools (Big Dough, ADR Insight, Bloomberg) -Microsoft programs: Word, Power Point, Excel -Strong oral and written communication abilities -IR consulting background advantageous but not a prerequisite Attributes: -Well organized, disciplined, able to set priorities and follow through. -Detail oriented -Team player -Self motivated -Creative and lateral thinker |
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posted by Unknown at 9:22 AM
| Must have strong SQL and Excel for this role |
| Position- FIXED INCOME BUSINESS ANALYST | ||
| Job Id (Use when Referring to Position): | JS4427 | |
| Job Type: | FTP | |
| Location: | New York NY | |
| Experience: | 0 - 0 | |
| Compensation: | $100,000.00 - $115,000.00 | |
| Job Description: | FIXED INCOME BUSINESS ANALYST Base salary: $100-115k Bonus: 7%-10%
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posted by Unknown at 9:20 AM
*Job will begin in either NJ at Metro Park or in Midtown Manhattan until
August, and then move to NYC permanently. Some travel between locations
until the move will be required.
*Salary to 95K + bonus
*Excellent communications skills are essential
First interview is phone followed by a face to face with the manager and
the team, followed by a final with the SVP, HR etc.
Job Title:* Market Data Operations Manager
Background in Market Data Operations and technology related to domestic
and international
equities. Candidate must have in-depth understanding of equities trading
systems, market structure and domestic and global market data.
Key aspects of this position include: Providing hands-on technical
support of the firm's Domestic and International market data systems;
daily interaction with the development teams, vendors, business
analysts, quality assurance, operations, etc.; Ability to manage
multiple projects simultaneously.
*Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:*
* Support daily operations of the Global Market Data environment to
include the management and maintenance of all market data systems
* Ability to take ownership of real-time market data production issues
and provide a course of action to resolve problems while communicating
across the organization; Escalation of problems through internal
channels and external vendor
* Liaise with various teams to ensure market data components are
properly designed, delivered on time and within budget.
* Act as the technical point of contact for external market data vendors
* Implementation of new market data applications and upgrades
* Work within a team environment to develop and implement best practices
and procedures regarding the operations, support and utilization of
market data.
* Provide regular updates and reports detailing progress, status, issues
etc.
* *
*Minimum experience includes:*
* Solid 3 to 5 years experience in a Market data role for both domestic
and international data types
* Minimum of 2 years of experience in IT
* At least 2 years of experience with Windows/Linux operating systems
* At least 2 years of experience with Network and real-time messaging
technologies
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* At least 1 year of engineering / development experience with scripting
languages (PERL, Shell)
* Strong Market Data content knowledge to effectively respond,
investigate and follow requests, issues from end-users (e.g., traders
and client management). Examples of the content knowledge includes:
o Understanding of market data categories, identifiers, symbology e.g.,
Equities, RIC, Sedol, Cusip, Isin.
o Understanding of market data concepts, e.g., Quotes, permissioning,
level 1 quote and level 2 quote differences, basic structure of an order
book, different types of markets, etc.
* Understanding of equity trading and capital markets.
* Understanding of special conditions, e.g., trade halts, corporate
actions, IPO, stock splits, etc.
* Experience with market data content from direct exchanges
* Experience with market data vendor providers such as IDC, Reuters,
Bloomberg, etc
* Technical experience with data feed vendors.
* Understanding of ECNS, NYSE, NASDAQ, BB Tradebook, Instinet,
Archipelago Exchange, NYFIX, BATS, Spryware, Wombat
* Proficiency with MS Project, MS Office and MS Visio.
* *
*Preferred Qualifications: *
* Ability to produce documentation pertaining to the data distribution
workflow.
* Fundamental Project management skills.
* Working knowledge of Reuters 3000 Xtra suite of products. Direct
exchange handlers
* Fundamental knowledge of networking & firewall functions (i.e.TCP/IP,
Multicast, subnetting, routing, FW concepts).
* Service oriented, positive, committed and enthusiastic team player
with a flexible `can do` approach to work.
* Prepared to take ownership and responsibility and step beyond
boundaries to work in unison with other teams with the goal of complete
resolution.
* Undergraduate degree in Computer Science preferred but not required.
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posted by Unknown at 9:18 AM
