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- FW: Business Analyst in Financial Instruments (#230-MH988) From: Tom Bley
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- FW: Jr. Business Analyst 3+ month contract position in Livingston, N From: Tom Bley
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- The AARP list of best companies for employees over 50 From: laurainnj@aol.com
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- FYI - 2010 IT Salary Survey Report From: leo_c_lin
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- VP Finance & Treasury Danbury, CT From: Keith Bogen SPHR
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- Complementary Conference: Join me Thursday March 18th at 8PM EST for From: Keith Bogen SPHR
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FW: Business Analyst in Financial Instruments (#230-MH988)
Posted by: "Tom Bley" tombley@hotmail.com pierres1010
Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:20 am (PDT)
Please contact the recruiter directly. Good luck.
Best Regards,
Tom Bley
Project / Program Manager
Cell (973) 919-1252
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From: Sharon Adler [mailto:sharon@telecommsoftware.com ]
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:35 AM
To: Thomas Bley
Subject: Business Analyst in Financial Instruments (#230-MH988)
Hi Thomas,
According to our automated search, you have experience as a Business Analyst
We are specifically looking for a fulltime or contract BA to handle a
financial BA role.
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below for all our current developer jobs in the NY/NJ area.;
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Job #230-MH988
Job Title: Business Analyst in Financial Instruments
Location: New York, NY (This one is the Contract Role; rate is $740/day)
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Lead Business Analyst
We are seeking a senior level Business Analyst (5+ years) with strong
business and systems knowledge of the different financial instruments such
as equities, derivatives, Fixed Income and Alternate Investments.
The person will need to have a strong background working with tech teams,
working with end-users, gathering requirements, and creating BRDs. This
person will need to have the technical knowledge to help the technical
decisions.
The Business Analyst should be able to create and maintain the strategic
partnership between Business needs and Technology delivery. The Business
Analyst will be responsible for developing business requirements and related
business rules based on Business Group needs. The role will include the
creation/revision of the following analysis artefacts and deliverables:
. Process Maps
. Business Requirement Document
. Business Rules
. User Stories
. User Flows
. Acceptance Tests
The Analyst will work closely with the Business Partner and Business Subject
Matter Expert(s) in the definition, testing, training, implementation, and
support of functional requirements.
The Analyst will identify requirements via industry standard analysis
techniques such as data flow modelling, workflow analysis, and functional
decomposition analysis. The Analyst will solicit requirements through
interviews, workshops, and/or existing systems documentation or procedures.
The Analyst will participate in daily stand-up meetings with both Technology
and Business Partners to facilitate the understanding, clarification, and
implementation of requirements in an Agile development environment.
Strong verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to communicate
effectively and confidently with users, team members and management.
Must be flexible and willing to undertake a wide variety of challenging
tasks. Strong facilitation skills. Must be able to elicit requirements from
various personalities across organizational and geographical boundaries.
Proven experience at driving consensus across multiple stakeholders. Process
driven analysis skills and a background in various requirements elicitation
method.
The candidate should have experience in Wealth management area and should
have worked in the development of Client facing applications. The analyst
should have a good knowledge of the different financial instruments such as
equities, derivatives, Fixed Income and Alternate Investments.
Essential
. Experience in requirement management, Use Cases, UML diagrams
. Thorough knowledge on SDLC process
. Knowledge RUP will be an advantage
Essential
Minimum 5 - 7 years of Business Analyst experience, preferably in the
financial industry.
Bachelors / Graduate Degree
Desirable
. Prior experience working with Business Process Management suites (vendor,
proprietary) a differentiator.
. Experience with Use Case Methodology (e.g. Rationale RUP)
Prior experience working with Alternative Investments a differentiator.
Examples of analytic, interpersonal and communication skills used to
influence and engage colleagues.
Job #233-MH988
Job Title: Business Analyst/Data Analyst in Financial Data Warehouse
Salary Range: Contract to $750/day
Location: New York, NY
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Job Description:
The candidate will work alongside Business Analysts, Architects, Developers,
QC and Business representatives in the Securities Sales IT team in London,
New York, Raleigh/Durham, and Singapore on the Securities Intelligence (SI)
Processing Project. The SI project involves IT divisions supporting
Equities, Fixed Income and Prime Services Sales working together to deliver
a detailed review of fixed income , equity and prime services sales reports;
detailed data and functional requirements for reporting; definition of a
coverage and security/entitlements model; reference data management analysis
and solution; and reporting tool assessment and selection. The project
supports the SI initiative which was established in Q1 2008. A key IT
objective is to ensure delivery of consistent divisional and global coverage
reporting throughout securities including Equities, Fixed Income and Prime
Services.The role of Data Analyst on the Securities Intelligence (SI) team
will work closely with the Data Architect and ETL team lead to create lists
of clearly documented source elements with standardized values, formats,
business rules/algorithms, and data element relationships that are
understandable to the business and development communities and verify the
source elements content. Create jointly with the Data Modeler/ETL Developer
the specifications for mapping/transformation rules all the way from source
to target. Evaluate and implement tool sets for performing data
profiling.Qualifications:
. Expertise with full MS Office suite.
. Strong SQL experience.
. Familiarity with ETL (extract-transform-load) tools and concepts such as
delta load, recoverability and maintainability. . Data modeling concepts.
. Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills.
. Minimum of 4 years of prior involvement in applying Data Analysis skills
for analyzing source systems in a Data Warehouse environment. . Work
experience in Financial Industry such as equity trading, sales and financial
markets.
. Educated to Degree standard in an IT related subject. Personal Skills:
. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to deal with IT
and with end users.
. Team Player willing to learn and quickly adopt new technologies.
. Clear communication and documentation of technical specifications.
Job #204-MH988
Job Title: Business Analyst in Equities Front Office Trading
Salary: 130000
Location: New York, NY
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Business Systems Analyst to:. Gather requirements from project stakeholders
and participate in scope definition process
. Produce functional and non-functional requirements documents and obtain
stakeholders signoff
. Perform system analysis to identify impacted functionality and interfaces,
develop and document use case scenarios to support design effort
. Work closely with the technical team to ensure that detailed design meets
business requirements specifications, produce functional specification
documentation and obtain stakeholders signoff
. Validate that developed applications meet specifications prior to
implementation and produce release documentation
There is clear scope to expand the role to cover additional systems and
products in 1-5 years. The team has recently driven the re-engineering of
the core trading system for performance, resiliency and scalability.
To Qualify You Must Possess: Essential
. 5+ years working experience as Systems Analyst and writing Functional
Specifications
. Strong data query, analysis and modeling skills
. Strong working experience in developing use case scenarios
. 3+ years of working knowledge of Equities Markets and Front Office
Equities Trading systems Desirable
. Working experience in building UML use case, activity and sequence
diagrams
. Working experience with low latency system requirements and performance
testing
. 5+ years of experience in writing business requirements
. Experience in estimating resources, developing delivery plans
. Working knowledge of Listed Derivatives Markets and Trading Systems
.
Key Deliverables: Understand how business and IT strategies align with
projects in the supported organizations. Extend understanding of business
and IT strategies, drivers and processes at the project to department level.
Candidate will be responsible for: . Responsible for ensuring that the IT
solution is fit for purpose against business requirements
. Business Requirement including current state flows, business objectives
and details as to what are the requirements for each business function that
the system is expected to support.
. Business Functional Specification including detailed expectations as to
how each part of the system performs in its proposed state.
. Use Case Scenarios detailing expectations for use of the system for every
business event that triggers action in the system in the proposed state.
. Create and maintain requirements traceability Matrix' structures and lists
for requirements that need to be tracked for all components
. Maintain requirements traceability matrix ensuring each requirement is
addressed by specific design elements and that the relationship between
design and requirement is documented.
. Help define and develop Technical Design Proposal including technical
architecture components and data flows for the Agora initiatives
. Participate in technical discussions and facilitate impact assessment
including expected impact of data volumes and on current technical
environments
. Assisting development and QA teams with resolutions for issues Taking
ownership of any issue or question through to resolution - whether that be a
manual fix in a view, or a code change made by developers. Be accountable
to the traders or middle office user as to the status of the request.
Provide subject matter expertise to support the development, validation and
training of quality assurance, application architecture, testing and other
project deliverables. Uses specific problem-solving approaches and
techniques on different types of problems.
. Identifies and organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem
resolution efforts.
. Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
. Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution
strategies.
. Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.
. Contributes to best practices for problem-solving approaches, tools and
processes
The emphasis is on developing a professional services group. The Operating
Model is being redefined to include new service horizontals, these include:
Support, Testing, Risk, Trading and Client Technology Solutions. Services to
the Investment Banking Division. There are sister functions serving Private
Banking and Asset Management.
Job #231-MH988
Job Title: Business Analyst in Derivative Front Office Trading
Salary Range: 130000 to 160000
Location: New York, NY
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Role and responsibilities:
Business analyst facing off to the Structured trading (Equity Derivatives -
Exotics) desk in NA, and to the Flow trading desk in NA.
The ideal candidate will have at least five years experience in a front
office facing Derivatives trading environment.
The candidate will be able to work in a fast paced, high pressure
environment while maintaining a calm demeanour, and building a strong
relationship with the business.
Excellent interpersonal skills will be necessary as the candidate will work
closely with the Trading desks as well as with the Quantative research team
to understand the business requirements. The ability to take ownership of
requirements from end to end and deliver a finished product to the trading
desk will be of prime importance. The end to end delivery will involve
fully understanding the requirements from a business perspective, detailed
analysis, writing of the functional specification, working closely with the
developer, testing and deployment of the finished product to the desk.
The business analyst will also work very closely with the technology teams
to ensure the design and implementation of the new risk infrastructure meets
the requirements of the trading desks. This will require a strong attention
to detail, as well as the ability to step back and understand how the
technology components will fit together to serve the business. The ability
to articulate the business requirements to the technology team, as well as
the change to the business will be vital.
Requirements:
Analytical / strong problem solving skills - ability to look at a problem
and break it down into a logical parts to arrive at a solution
Numerate - comfortable with numbers; able to understand equity derivatives
concepts and how these work in practice
Self starter / Self motivated - able to work on own initiative
Communication skills - ability to communicate with confidence in a high
pressure trading environment
Strong project management skills - ability to deliver a finished product to
the business -
Team player - comfortable working as part of a team
Strong attention to detail
Calm under pressure
Skills:
Derivatives knowledge
SQL - strong
Unix - medium
Some of our current contracts/Fulltime Positions are below
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current job openings.
Sharon Adler, Technical Recruiter
Phone (516) 232-2481
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FW: Jr. Business Analyst 3+ month contract position in Livingston, N
Posted by: "Tom Bley" tombley@hotmail.com pierres1010
Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:27 am (PDT)
Please contact the recruiter directly. Good luck.
Best Regards,
Tom Bley
Project / Program Manager
Cell (973) 919-1252
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From: John Moloney <jmoloney@opensystemstech.com >
Date: 13 Mar 2010 13:23:33 -0500
Subject: Jr. Business Analyst 3+ month contract position in Livingston, NJ
Hello,
I came across your name in our database. As you may know, Open Systems Technologies specializes in placement of IT Contract and Full Time Staff.
Our direct financial services client located in Livingston, NJ has a 3+ month contract position for Jr. Business Analyst.
If you'd like to be considered please reply if you are a close match to the required skills below, and be sure to include your resume.
Pay rate is in the range of $30/hour, based on the following skill set.
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
• Use Excel/Access to analyze and remediate data issues
• Support production Identity Management helpdesk queue
• Troubleshoot IDM issues reported by users, specifically related to data
• Assist in improving data quality within IDM
• Write commands in SQL
• Document detailed steps performed to support system or modify data
• Communicate with business users and customers
• Test new changes being implemented in IDM and create additional use cases
• Match employee/consultant records to all entire wide IDs
• Design basic databases
• Field calls and answer questions by customers and business users
John Moloney
Sr. IT Recruiter
Open Systems Technologies
1818 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Desk: 215-399-9932
Cell: 302-530-1620
Fax: 856-321-3209
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The AARP list of best companies for employees over 50
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Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:32 am (PDT)
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FYI - 2010 IT Salary Survey Report
Posted by: "leo_c_lin" leo_c_lin@yahoo.com leo_c_lin
Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:34 am (PDT)
Global Knowledge and Tech Republic just completed their IT Salary Survey. Here's the link:
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VP Finance & Treasury Danbury, CT
Posted by: "Keith Bogen SPHR" keith.bogen@yahoo.com hrslugger2002
Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:50 pm (PDT)
VP of Finance & Treasury (Reporting Directly to the CFO)
Industry: Speciality Chemicals (Industry Experience strongly preferred)
Danbury, CT
If interested and qualified, please email resume and compensation to elisa@thepattongroupllc.com . Please make sure that your resume fully details your experience as it relates to the requirements below.
Required:
International, Multi-plant experience
Exposure to commodity risk and use of contract and exchange-based hedging strategies
Monitor foreign currency exposures and expenditures for potential hedging needs.
Solid plant manufacturing background utilizing standard cost methods
Experience with SAP applications and ERP conversions
Familiarity with global tax-driven strategies including transfer pricing and royalty methodology
Exposure to asset based lenders, preparation of borrowing base certifications , cash forecasting, financial covenant management and general liquidity management.
Global cash management including intelligent use of ACH, wire transfer
Responsibility for Pension Accounting, Funding and Reporting
Exposure and leadership of the Risk Management function with good relations with leading brokers and consulting firms: examples would be D&O, property, workers compensation, environmental liability,
Exposure to the use of Letters of Credit to support business operations
Exposure to the international use of performance bonding ("bid bonds")
Reporting directly to CFO, the VP, Finance & Treasurer will become a member of the executive team and will be charged with building upon the company's success while developing the control, treasury and tax infrastructure and business processes required to support future expansion.
The VP Finance will be specifically responsible for:
• Developing and managing the company's financial tying together all important financial and strategic objectives while ensuring alignment with vision, core values, strategic objectives and operating principles
• Leading the company's financial reporting, LLC partner reporting, budgeting, audit, tax, accounting, treasury, forecasting, and financial planning functions
• Working closely with the company's outside audit firm and developing appropriate internal risk management function
• Developing, maintaining, and enhancing positive relationships with global bankers , institutional investors, and limited partners.
• Overseeing general ledger and financial information technology systems that streamline
operations and maintain proper records while affording adequate accounting controls and services
• Working closely with the Executive Team to ensure accurate and timely reporting and accessibility of key financial performance indicators to support key decision making
• Creating and maintaining annual and quarterly financial plans and monitoring/reporting the company's results
• Overseeing all aspects of the company's treasury, tax and cash management function
· Liaise with and support outside tax advisors in developing global tax strategy and preparation of tax reporting requirements, including legal entity K-1's.
• Providing and inspiring excellence in all financial disciplines
resulting in a balanced and competent world-class finance & treasury team
Requirements:
• A minimum 15 year, progressively more responsible, varied career track in corporate financial leadership including a blend of experience in public companies and emerging and/or growth-oriented multi-plant manufacturing companies
• A Bachelor's degree in finance/accounting or business with an MBA or advanced degree, and CPA, viewed with favor
• A reputation for outstanding team leadership with proven ability to successfully manage and develop a multi-functional team of finance professionals within a multi-location, rapidly growing company in the top or a top-tier financial role
• The ability to operate within the company's executive managerial culture which is characterized by hands-on
teamwork with sense of urgency, mutual support, flexibility, candor, and relative absence of hierarchy.
• Experience developing and utilizing financial systems that support companies that have exhibited successful growth path and contributed to increased shareholder value.
• A broad financial career track including rotations in functional areas such as financial management, accounting, budgeting and forecasting, tax & treasury, and mergers/acquisitions.
• Strategic thinking skills with the ability to balance the long-term objectives with day-to-day tactical realities
• Superior analytical skills with the demonstrated ability to handle complexity
• Experience in an SEC reporting environment as well as
familiarity with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations
Experiences & Skill Sets for a Successful Candidate
· Experience with global manufacturing operations and finance
· Exposure to commodity risk and use of contract and exchange-based hedging strategies
· Monitor and analyze key commodity exposures (e.g., tin, soy, natural gas) and develop recommended hedging strategies.
· Monitor foreign currency exposures and expenditures for potential hedging needs.
· Solid plant manufacturing background utilizing standard cost
methods
· Experience with SAP applications and ERP conversions
· Familiarity with global tax-driven strategies including transfer pricing and royalty methodology
· Exposure to asset based lenders, preparation of borrowing base certifications , cash forecasting, financial covenant management and general liquidity management.
-Prepare internal reports to monitor availability within debt agreements.
-Oversee preparation of all certificates and schedules required as a condition of the Company's debt agreements.
· Global cash management including intelligent use of ACH, wire transfer and other
Aggressive leadership of Credit Policy, Accounts Receivable and Cash Application
· Responsibility for Pension Accounting, Funding and Reporting
· Exposure and leadership of the Risk Management function with good relations with leading brokers and consulting firms: examples would be D&O, property, workers compensation, environmental liability,
· Exposure to the use of Letters of Credit to support
business operations
· Exposure to the international use of performance bonding ("bid bonds")
· Experience with hedging of business risk, including currency, commodity ( tin, natural gas for example)
· Innovative use of third party solutions
Elisa Sheftic
Senior Managing Director - Executive Search
The Patton Group LLC
elisa@thepattongroupllc.com
(201) 788 7283
http://www.linkedin.com/in/elisashe ftic
*Feel free to connect with me on linkedin*
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Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:18 pm (PDT)
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