Business Analyst with Fixed Income Trading in Not Specified, NY

Description Our client, one of the largest banks in the US with wealth management, investment banking, and international business is seeking a Business Analyst with Fixed Income Trading experience. Location: New York, NYType of Position: Full Time
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Business Analyst in Not Specified, NY

Description Our client, one of the largest financial services firm is seeking a Business Analyst Type of Position: Contract Location: New York, NY Duration: 7 months Requirements: 5+ Years of financial industry background is mandatory Strong knowledge of Financial Product trade flows of any of the Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Derivatives products Should have worked on Technology projects touching one or more areas of trading, accounting, Back Office operations or MIS Good knowledge of daily PNL, Product/Finance/Operations control functions Experience interacting with business users and collecting the reporting requirements. Strong experience preparing and making presentations to senior management and business partners. Must be comfortable creating C-level presentations Ability to facilitate JAD sessions, conduct interviews, develop process and data flow diagrams in Visio (mandatory). Be able to work with Sharepoint 5+ years of strong experience with Oracle 9i and/or 10g Ability to query the database using SQL Advanced level knowledge of using Excel for data analysis Experience reporting on dimensions and hierarchy data Some knowledge of Business Objects Reporting Some knowledge of Essbase cubes Strong analytical skills Excellent communication skills Good background working with quantitative data Preferred Qualifications: Experience with data modeling Any OLAP skills Experience with Hyperion Essbase Exceptional visualization & presentation skills Sharepoint ?power user programming skills
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Market Risk Analyst in Not Specified, NY

Description Our client one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world is seeking a Market Risk Analyst. Type of position: Contract Location: NYC Daily market risk reporting and limits monitoring. Ensure that risk captured for risk reporting is complete and accurate. Research and explain changes in VaR. Understand and explain greeks, risk measures, and sensitivities of trading positions and portfolios. Research and follow-up on queries regarding risk and VaR from Market Risk Management, Front Office, and senior management. MIS and ad hoc reporting. Project work on process automation and data capture. Skills/Qualifications: At least 2 years' work experience in Market Risk, Product Control, or trading/capital markets. Strong PC skills with MS Excel and Access. VB knowledge. Ability to create, modify, and trouble-shoot macros. Ability to create and manipulate pivot tables. Experience with data mining and MIS reporting. Knowledge of greeks, risk measures, sensitivities, and VaR. Knowledge of derivatives and financial products, including swaps, forwards, options, and etc. Systems knowledge in Bloomberg, Calypso, Murex, and/or Summit . Good communications skills. Strong quantitative, analytical, and reasoning skills. Market risk analyst excel, access and VB
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Trading Support Specialist in Not Specified, NY

Description Our client, one of the main European financial services companies, is seeking a Trading Support Specialist.Type of position: FulltimeLocation: New York, NYThe available position is an integral part of the Middle Office Trade & Event Supporting Unit which will strengthen the efficiencies and processing of the group to support the Front Office business line. More specifically, this position is part of the listed team in the Arbitrage & Equity Finance group, in charge of processing buy and sell trades along with lending and borrowing trades for listed products such as Stocks, Funds, Futures or Listed Options. The main focus of this position will be to manage the ADR Arbitrage business line. The positions will be located on the trading floor. Responsibilities: -Lead and manage the process of insertion of trades and trade events done by the Front Office. -Solving issues with the different parties in order to ensure that the operations will settle on time. -Responsible for making sure the booking is correct running P&L and Risk Analysis after booking complex trades -Assisting the traders on critical points (ie dividends, short positions, following corporate actions, issue and expiry of products). -Constant review of the processes linked to deal management in order to automate and secure them when possible. Required Skills: .Strong computer skills: Advanced Programming level Required in VBA *Must have Portuguese verbal communication skills -Knowledge of equity derivative products (ie actions, indexes, warrants, equity linked swaps.) -Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills -Reactive, detail-oriented, driven to work in a fast learning environment -Strong project management skills -Strong interpersonal skills -Handle various ad-hoc requests. -Prone to take initiatives -Reactive, detail-oriented, driven to work in a fast learning environment -Strong interpersonal, communication and partnering skills -Ability to prioritize and work in a dynamic, deadline-focused environment -Self-motivated and proactive; willingness & a strong desire to learn -Good inter-personal, partnering and communication skills. A `team-player` -Supervisory and management skills, a plus -Qualifications include excellent analytical and financial skills, familiarity with the equity derivatives. Business related experience preferred, but not required. -BS/BA in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics or other quantitative subjects (Financial Engineering, etc) is preferred. Master's desirable. -1 to 3 years experience in trading support of equity derivatives. -Series 7 and 63 a plus, though not required .
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Desktop Application Engineer in New York, NY

DescriptionOur client, a global financial services firm and a market leader in securities, asset management and credit services, is seeking a Desktop Application Engineer Type of position: Contract, 8 months Location: New York, NY We are looking for an experienced and hands-on senior-level engineer to work in our Desktop Applications Engineering team. We oversee the horizontal suite of critical enterprise products (Office, Outlook, Acrobat, Internet Explorer, Firefox, IM clients, JRE runtime, etc) that exist globally on over 60,000 desktops. This includes product and vendor management, integration engineering, governance, and custom development to leverage our investment in these products We are looking for the person to be able to contribute to many of the ongoing initiatives in this space and owning engineering tasks from beginning to finish. Required skills: Strong and proven ability to work in the End User Computing environment and deliver enterprise solutions Excellent verbal and written communication skills. In-depth knowledge of Windows Operating System and Windows productivity tools. Hands-on Experience with Active Directory and Group Policy Deep knowledge about software packaging tools and deployment cycle Good script language programming skills (eg feel comfortable with VBScript/JavaScript/PowerShell) Self-motivated and strong ability take on new challenges Desired skills: Experience with Sun Java Runtime. Adobe Air and other desktop runtime Experience with Adobe Reader and Acrobat Professional integration, management and development support. Development languages, C#/Perl
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Jr. Business Analyst in Not Specified, NY

Description Our client a global financial services firm and a market leader in securities, asset management and credit services is seeking 2 Jr. Business Analyst Location: New York , NY Contract Position Must have proven experience in conducting information gathering interviews, workshops, meetings, demos, and trainings and writing test scenarios, testing, identifying bugs, validating and implementing systems. Candidates need to have: Strong Communication Skills Strong background in Retail Brokerage Skills Required Education: BS/BA Accounting/Finance or related work experience Excellent presentation skills including oral and written communication skills Full life-cycle project experience (analysis-implementation) desire Exposure to Financial Products Personable, able to interface with clients, peers and managers Enthusiastic, motivated team player
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Environment Management Analyst in Not Specified, NY

Description Our client, one of the largest financial services firms, is seeking a Environment Management Analyst.Type of position: ContractDuration: 6 monthsLocation: New York, NY Department Scope: Position will be one of two environment management specialists reporting directly to the manager of Municipal Securities Support. This support team is part of Municipal Securities technologies which is part of Global Markets technology. Besides Environment Management, support consists of two level 1 specialists and four level 2 specialists. Department Roles and Responsibilities: Municipal Securities Support team is responsible for direct business end-user support for the entire Municipal Securities division as well as maintenance of all environments. Heavy interaction with Technology Infrastructure, Database Administration teams. Will have interaction (on a need basis) with CATE teams. Job Description: The main purpose of the role: To support projects relating to platform consolidation (application and database servers). Develop standards for each environment and assist technology teams to host their applications in these new environments. Provide analytical support related to systems and processes to ensure optimal production availability/supportability. Project requires enterprise level coordination, communication, influence and negotiation. Main day-to-day activities of the position: Develop and maintain: Standards for application deployment and hosting, Standards for database hosting. Optimize current databases and interdependencies and monitor changes to ensure compliance to standards, Work directly with development teams to: Migrate to new application and database standards, Ensure on-going development adheres to all standards (corporate and division), Assist with all external group/vendor dependencies. Goals and objectives: Develop and maintain environments that are optimally supportable. Assist development team in maintaining applications that are optimally supportable. Key relationships (internal/external customers, vendors, etc.): Development managers and leaders, Desktop and Server SA s, Database Administrators, CATE, External data providing vendors (Bloomberg, TMC, etc.). Required Experience: Technical/business knowledge, experience, and skills (certifications, programming languages, etc.): Strong UNIX System Admin skills Strong Sybase/SQL skills Knowledge of BEA Weblogic (application hosting and tuning) Experience over the full software development lifecycle Non-technical knowledge, experience, and skills (leadership, management, oral and/or written communication, etc.) Project management experience Very Strong written and oral communication skills Educational requirements: Four year college degree required (BS in Computer Science or related field) Strong writing skills (able to develop standards and proposal documents) Able to communicate technical issues with the development teams and be able to come with solutions
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