Saturday, January 16, 2010

Business Analyst – Risk and Finance Technology in New York, NY

Saturday, January 16, 2010
Business Analyst - Risk and Finance Technology

This is a great opportunity to join a New York City based Investment bank as a Technical Business Analyst working with the Risk and Finance Technology team. This team is responsible for the development of Market, Credit and Operational Risk platforms. You will be responsible for the successful implementation of a shared data warehouse for use by all risk and finance applications. This requires a strong technical background along with coordination across multiple IT and business groups within the firm.
Experience: Required Experience/Skills:
- 5+ years of experience as a Technical Business Analyst at a financial firm.
- Strong knowledge of Fixed Income products, ideally Credit derivatives, bonds and/or interest rate derivatives.
- Market Risk concepts including VaR (how to calculate VaR and the data inputs required), issuer risk analysis and stress testing.
- Experience with Market Risk systems or Front Office Pricing/Risk systems.
- Data Warehousing & understanding of data modeling. Structured analysis and design, particularly on data intensive front to back transaction flows.
- Experience working with data feeds/system messaging interfaces and an understanding of XML/ XSD schema design.
- In-depth understanding of Trade Capture, Trade Processing, Trade Flow, Events, Cash Settlement, Confirmation, EOD Valuation.
- Technical background, familiarity with ETL concepts & tools, ideally Informatica, data modeling, SQL.
- Detail-oriented, self-motivated and organized, able to work independently and efficiently to meet deadlines.

If you are looking to take your career to the next level as a Technical Business Analyst with a unique opportunity to gain a front to back view of an Investment Bank and exposure to multiple business asset classes, submit your resume to Crystal at Genesis10 immediately for consideration. This is an excellent opportunity to join a winning team.

Genesis10 is a business and technology consulting company specializing in project management, business analysis, business transformation and large-scale systems infrastructure and application integration. Genesis10 services a variety of industries including banking and financial services, insurance, energy, manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunications and more. At Genesis10, we recognize that our consultants are our most powerful resource. Selecting only the most talented and experienced consultants provides our clients with the best the industry has to offer. We take pride in attracting the world's finest business and technology consultants.
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