Manager, Finance Operations & Controls Transformation - (US-NY-New York)

Manager, Finance Operations & Controls Transformation - (New York City or Chicago based)

Compensation: $110K - $150K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: DNRJA1

At least 7 years of industry, vendor or consulting experience in a financial services organization, such as a broker dealer, custodian or investment bank with a clear record of expertise, accomplishment and impact.
• Knowledge of a wide range of investment products including fixed income securities, alternative investments, exchange traded funds, derivatives, structured products, hedging strategies, derivative operations & processing, plus familiarity with a project management framework and industry regulations
• Extensive knowledge of the trading, operations, documentation, settlement and reporting processes for securities in which the candidate specializes
• Experience implementing major changes within a back-office core accounting system.
• Familiarity with systems such as: Broadridge Impact or Brokerage Processing System (BPS), SunGard Phase3, Thomson BETA, etc.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships with clients
• A proven ability to manage and motivate a diverse team of resources and complete projects on time and within budget
• A desire to continuously update skills and understanding of industry requirements and challenges and share that knowledge with both senior and junior colleagues
• The ability to support or lead the proposal development and presentation process
• Knowledge of developing systems through complete system development life cycle including writing functional specifications, technical specifications and test plans
• Experience implementing vendor packages, process mapping and design
• Full project life cycle skills from the business or technology side where responsibilities included: defining work flows, defining business requirements documents, detailed project planning, data mapping and data migration, defining user test criteria and data, testing, status monitoring, problem tracking and resolution
• Understanding of writing test cases or test scripts
• BA/BS (Masters preferred) degree in Business, Finance, Mathematics or Computer Science preferred
• Must be willing to travel up to 50%

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Systems Administrator - (US-CA-Greater Los Angeles)

Systems Administrator - (US-CA-Greater Los Angeles)

Compensation: $110K - $120K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: WJKJA22

Individual will be responsible for supporting enterprise Solaris and Red Hat on Sun SPARC and Intel platforms, along with NetApp SAN and NAS and related NetApp software solutions. The individual will be involved in architecting and deploying virtual systems and physical hardware, storage, and systems software. Individual will be responsible for supporting mission critical applications in Production, DR, QA and Development environments. Individual will lead IT Operations projects and provide technical design recommendations along with performing day to day support. Individual will be supporting Netbackup Media servers and backup integration with Symantec Puredisk. Individual will be working closely with the UNIX team, DBA's, Microsoft Admins, Networking teams along with the application development group.



Competencies:


§ Experience in Sun hardware running SPARC and Intel with Solaris 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6.

§ Experience in Sun Solaris Zones, Containers, Global Zones and Sun Clustering technologies.

§ Experience in Sun Flash Archive solution.

§ Experience in VMWare on Red Hat Linux Platform.

§ Experience using NetApp SAN/NAS storage and software solutions.

§ Experience in NetApp Snapshot, SnapMirror, SnapRestore, SnapVault, and FlexClone solutions.

§ Experience in NFS and Fiber Channel storage configuration.

§ Experience using Symantec Net Backup and NDMP for backup and recovery to diskpools and tapes.

§ Understand system and database factors affecting Oracle and Sybase database and application performance.

§ Demonstrated understanding of networking performance issues and requirements including IPMP and NIC bonding.

§ Demonstrated skills in UNIX shell programming in and related UNIX utilities such as SSH, MUSSH, and PERL.

§ Demonstrated good verbal and written communication skills and ability to work in an efficient team environment.





Responsibilities/Duties:



§ Leads UNIX team to support projects and develop appropriate solutions with technology options as needed.

§ Provides hands on support of UNIX environment including O/S administration and physical hardware support.

§ Interfaces strongly with DBA, Networking, Microsoft, and development groups.

§ Designs and architect technology solutions to support the environment growth and business needs.

§ Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues and problems, both tactical and strategic.

§ Manages Solaris and RedHat Enterprise Linux on both SPARC and Intel platforms, including NetApp SAN's.

§ Provides formal processes and methods to administer and support systems.

§ Performs proactive monitoring, performance resolution and appropriate scaling of systems.

§ Oversee general management and upgrade/patching process for all environments.

§ Manage and implement security practices and controls as needed to insure systems.

§ Provides backup, system recovery and BCP/DR process and procedures.

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Business Analyst - (US-NJ-Jersey City)

Business Analyst - (US-NJ-Jersey City)

Compensation: $75K - $85K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: SFCJA3

We're looking more for untapped potential than seasoned experience – besides becoming a data & design whizz, the ideal candidate will have a keen desire to learn more about trading operations and accounting, especially how fund administration is effected by the company's technology platforms. The position is most suited to a fast learner with an excellent ability to digest & understand new material quickly, working in an unstructured work environment. Excellent written and oral skills, with an emphasis on effectively conveying data concepts to business audiences.

Business Analyst will join our team of developer/analysts to collaborate on a variety of challenges facing the group, including data modeling, trade life cycle tactical application development, data parsing tools, spreadsheet redesign/porting, database design, operations processes and project management.
Education, Qualifications and Experience
 2+ years with MS Excel as data modeling/manipulation tool, or familiarity with VBA, SQL/database design, scripting languages, etc
 Proven abilities to understand & tackle complex, technical/logic problem-solving
 Basic understanding of exotic financial instruments and trade life cycle
 "Get the job done" mindset and innovative approaches to problems
 Polished communication and presentation skills

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