Thursday, May 19, 2011

Investment Operations Consulting managers - NYC, Chicago, Atlanta


Investment Operations Consulting managers - NYC, Chicago, Atlanta
Compensation: 
$110K - $150K / Year
Minimum Education: 
Bachelors
Job Type: 
Full Time
Jobcode: 
DNRJA111

Investment operations consulting managers will have experience in the following areas: 

1) Investment Middle/Back Office and Accounting Operations. 

o Familiarity with the major middle office, back office and investment accounting functions. 

o Knowledge of various asset types (e.g., public and private fixed income, private equity, commercial mortgages, ABS, MBS). 

o Understanding of accounting bases (e.g., GAAP, IFRS, Statutory), then major differences and contemporary issues. 

o Insightful on typical business challenge (e.g., disclosures, analytics). 

o Experience with typical business and organizational models (e.g., client focused vs functional). 

2) Investment Operations Technologies. 

o Awareness of major securities accounting platforms and relative limitations and functionality (beyond just securities). 

o Knowledge of major technology applications and capabilities (i.e., cash management, accounting, trading). 

o Exposure to typical technology development and integration tools (e.g., ETL tools, middleware). 

o Awareness of typical technology issues and challenges (e.g., staffing, capital budgeting). 

3) Investment Data Repositories and Analytics. 

o Understanding of typical data warehouse and other repository approaches (e.g., ODS, Data Marts). 

o Expertise in Data Strategy methodologies and approaches (e.g., reference data, data governance). 

o Perspectives on data completeness and integration challenges typical for general account management. 

o Experience providing business analytic capabilities to support general account management. 

o Awareness of typical data challenges and needs for general account insurance. 


Manager: 

· Managers will lead and deliver large client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for large companies. 

· Manager level responsibilities include: providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement. 

· Managers implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance. 

· Managers participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities. 

· Managers can lead small engagements or components of large, complex engagements. 

· A minimum of 6 years consulting and/or industry experience is required. 

· A Bachelor's Degree is required. 

· 100% travel required 



In addition, successful Managers will also have the following preferred skills: 

· Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint). 

· Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment. 

· Eagerness to mentor junior staff. 

· An advanced degree is preferred. 


Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

NO RELOCATION. NO VISA TRANSFERS. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES. NO 3RD PARTIES. 

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