Our client is seeking a Market Analyst. The ideal candidate will be responsible for complete mathematical & statistical analyses of order flow & market data. They will work with super-large datasets & analyses of market data.
Must have Master’s in Math, Physics, Statistics, Biostatistics, Econometrics, Computer Science or related.
2 yrs work exp with large data sets, programming, & statistical packages (S-Plus, Matlab, SQL, or other) required.
Must have proven coursework in computer science & statistics/biostatistics.
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $130,000 – $150,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client, a market leading provider of Centralized Data Management (CDM) solutions for financial services firms, is seeking a New York-based IT Consultant advise customers about the business and technical uses of their product suite and ensure the successful deployment of the product at the customer site. The Consultant will work with their core team of developers and partners around the world to ensure high-quality implementation of the various projects.
Principal responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
- Install, configure and deliver the products according to acceptance criteria
- Customize product configurations to meet customer requirements and maintain products at customer site
- Advise customers regarding the uses of the products, answer customer questions and address concerns
- Establish and maintain strong customer relations throughout projects
- Detail activities in written reports for management
- Complete work in a timely, project-based manner in accordance with project plans, deadlines, etc.
- Extensive travel required (may include international)
Qualifications include:
- Bachelor’s Degree in related discipline
- 3 years of experience in at least one of the following:
- Unix/Linux command prompt; Shell scripting; Java/”Java Script” programming; Relational databases (Oracle/Sybase/MS SQL server)
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills with ability to transfer knowledge to customers
- Must have financial services industry knowledge (instruments, processes, regulations, etc.)
- Prefer knowledge of data vendor data (Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC, etc.)
- Prefer at least two years of experience within the financial services industry working with market data
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $110,000 – $120,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client a leading provider of Centralized Data Management (CDM) software solutions for financial services firms, is seeking a Customer Support Engineer for their New York office. This individual will be responsible for responding to and resolving issues (e.g. operational problems/software issues, requests for information, suggestions for enhancements) to the satisfaction of the customer.
Responsibilities:
•Respond to questions and issues. Analyze, recreate and resolve issues. •Build relationships with and manage expectations of customers by proactive communication, regular calls and visiting customers where applicable to achieve a high customer satisfaction index; •Administer the tickets (issues) and follow up internally by liaising with Product Management, Account Management and the development team; •Attend knowledge sharing sessions from Product & Development and work with new products and features to make sure that the product knowledge is up-to-date; •Continuously work with our client’s product, to provide feedback to Product & Development to improve the usability and functionality. Recreate customer environments where necessary (using VMware technology) to recreate and analyze the issues; •Assist customers with analyzing high-priority issues using remote access to connect to customer environments; •Provide training to new support members; •Generate and manage a knowledge base, used by customers prior to reporting issues. •When required, travel to customers to troubleshoot and resolve issues; •Work as a standby during the non-business hours to cover 24*7 support for urgent production issues from customers.
Qualifications include:
•Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Finance or related field
•2 – 5 years of related experience
•Knowledge of related technologies (Unix, SQL, Oracle/Sybase, Java)
•Broad programming/debugging knowledge of e.g. Shell scripts, Perl and Java
•Troubleshooting issues related to our client’s core product set (including Bloomberg and Reuters interfaces, Workflow and Normalization) preferred
•Proficient in using Support tools such as Request Tracker, Kbase
•Strong communication skills and ability to deal with Priority 1 issues with the aid from other Customer Support Engineers
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $60,000 – $80,000 + Bonus
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client is a leading electronic marketplace for energy trading and prour client discovery. Our client`s transparent and efficient market structure, coupled with its secure, electronic trading platform, allows our client to provide market participants with direct access to energy futures and thousands of OTC commodity products. In addition to its globally distributed liquid electronic markets, our client offers a range of risk management tools designed to increase trading efficiency. The combination of speed, accessibility, servour client and information makes our client the complete energy marketplace for thousands of market participants across the globe.
We are looking for a candidate with strong HR Generalist background.
Primary duties include:
Recruitment, including scheduling and coordination of interviews; liaising with recruiters
Pre-hire processing, including conducting background checks and preparing offer letters
New hire processing and on-boarding
Payroll preparation for submission to payroll team in Atlanta
Answering general queries related to payroll, benefits, HRIS and policies and procedures
Conducting exit interviews with departing employees
Supporting immigration processes
Administration of the transit benefit
Verification of employment for prior and current employees
Maintain and update HRIS
Additional operational and administrative duties related to responsibilities
Ad hoc projects, as necessary
Qualifications:
BA required
3 to 5 years of HR experience
Financial services preferred
Workday experience a plus
WageWorks experience a plus
Must have strong execution skills and attention to detail
Able to deliver effective results and meet deadlines
Must be reliable, responsible and able to handle highly confidential information with discretion
Effective in both an individual capacity as well as in a global team environment
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $55,000 – $60,000 + Bonus
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client is currently seeking an articulate and motivated individual with strong communication and interpersonal skills to join their team as a Director, Application Support. Responsibilities include day-to-day people management, process management and vendor relations.
Responsibilities Include:
§ Manages the efforts of the applications software support team
§ Manages the configuration, release, and maintenance of software applications and services that support our client’s Trading Platforms
§ Manages the coordination of environments and software applications and services for various internal test groups
§ Improves technical processes by collaborating with management, colleagues, and other internal functional teams.
- Coordinates maintenance and support plans with various software application stakeholders.
- Coordinates staffing and resource allocation with project managers and provides input into strategic planning for resource development and deployment against projects.
- Coordinates deliverables with other divisions such as Product Development and Network Integration / Operations.
- Leads the implementation of Trading Applications within the Operations and support division and ensures training, implementation and compliance with company objectives.
- Represents the implementation plan and schedule for Application releases within Operations and Support Division.
- Relies on experience and judgment to provide day to day support
- Manager and Liaison for Production Trading Incidents
- Problem Management for Application Related Issues
- Strong knowledge of applications noteworthy to resolve problems
Results Expected:
- Define & Implement Release Management Standards.
- Integrate Change Control function for our client’s Trading Applications
- Management of our client’s Test Environments
- Management of their Application Support Team
- Management of Implementation activities in support of the Capacity and Security Program
Required Experience
- Requires a bachelor’s degree in a related area and at least 10 years of experience with either, release management, software development, software support, and/or configuration management.
- Must have a solid understanding of the software application environment. Familiarity with the following technologies:
- Linux, Unix Operating Systems
- ASP, ASPX, C#, .NET architecture
- SQL Server 2000, 2005
- IIS
- Windows Server 2003Data Warehousing Tools in SQL Server: Analysis Services, Reporting Services, ETL, etc.
- Knowledge and experience with a variety of Technology concepts, best practices, and procedures, particularly with Project Management, Release Management, Configuration Management.
- Knowledge and experience with Microsoft applications infrastructure,
- Ability to build relationships and influence with peers and client management.
- Ability to communicate very effectively with clients and use experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Ability and skill to lead and effectively direct the work of others.
- Ability and demonstrated history in managing projects and technical staff.
- Ability to develop and train staff.
Location: New York, NY
Salary: Competitive
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client, an elite electronic trading firm, has an immediate need for a driven, technically-savvy team player to focus on trading support for their Execution Services. The Operations Engineer is responsible for architecture and application issues, system startup and shutdown, subscriber issues, as well as driving continued performance improvements.
This position requires strong analytical and creative skills as well as strong working knowledge of operating systems, and IP networks. The candidate must have been working with trading firms or exchanges for at least three years.
Key Responsibilities:
- ATS system configuration, customer triage and risk management
- Analyze trading requirements, systems architecture, order and market data trends
- Regularly communicate with third party exchanges
- Support the launch of new features and enhancements through cutting-edge Trading, Development & Operations teams
- Employ innovative thought and automation to improve productivity, workflow and subscriber support
- Maintain System Documentation
Key Skills:
- Knowledge of Linux and Unix shell
- Knowledge of basic SQL
- Knowledge of FIX
- Understands trading system performance in significant detail
- Experience with ATS/ECN/Exchange
- Analytical mindset, highly effective at decision-making
- Effective communicator with superior customer service skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts in layman’s terms
- Ability to manage numerous business priorities with ease
- Willing to learn the intricacies of a world-class financial trading firm
- Able and willing to do critical strategy work all the way through hands on implementation
Job Requirements:
- Over 3 years experience in technical trading and/or customer support
- Scripting a plus
- Easy Access to downtown NYC area and willing to be on call.
- Series 7/55 a plus (will be required upon hire)
Location: New York, NY
Salary: Competitive
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client a market leading developer of trading operations and risk management systems and services for some of the world’s premier financial and energy trading institutions is seeking a Technical Analyst for their growing
São Paulo office.
The Technical Consultant will interface with their Clients’ business & technical representatives. The role will include requirements capture, analysis and design of technical solutions based upon their proprietary software.
Flexibility and regular travel around Latin America are essential to this role.
Responsibilities:
Preparation for and installation of proprietary software and components at client sites
Providing technical architecture guidance to new and existing clients
Providing pre and post implementation technical support for clients
Performing technical audits & performance tuning of existing installations
Assisting clients in upgrade projects
Delivering fast response troubleshooting for on site issues.
Requirements:
Good knowledge of Oracle database administration
A good degree in a numerate discipline
Sound knowledge of SQL
Good troubleshooting skills
Preferably some development experience (C/C++, VB.Net or Java)
Working knowledge of front, middle and back office operations in a banking or Energy/Commodity environment preferable
Excellent communication, written and team skills
Enthusiastic and self motivated, with the ability to work alone
Candidates must be advanced in English. Spanish is a plus
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Salary: Competitive
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
You will be working with a small, internationally distributed team to develop cutting edge, very high volume and extreme scalability data grid solutions for our client’s customers. Design, development, testing, maintenance, delivery and support of active data services (ADS) solutions to their clients in the US and (potentially) abroad, using Java and C# languages. This role may involve occasional travel to customer sites or to our client’s other international offices. This role may involve interfacing with customers to develop or customize according to their specifications.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related subject
6 years commercial experience with Java development
Solid software development life cycle experience, and a proven record of designing, coding, and delivering applications
Hands-on design/architecture experience with good understanding of design patterns
Experience with other data grids, such as Gemfire, Infinspan, Gigaspaces, Oracle or other RDMS
Ant knowledge
Core Java
Experience with OO design and analysis, tools and processes
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Willing to occasionally travel domestically and/or internationally
PREFERRED SKILLS:
Client facing skills
Knowledge of C#, SQL, JMX, JDBC, or JMS
Hands-on experience with Oracle Coherence
FIT testing and test-driven development
Knowledge of or interest in Commodities, Capital markets, or treasury
Location: Long Island, NY
Salary: $70,000 – $115,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
** Must be local and fluent in Portuguese.**
This is a direct client-facing role. The Business Analyst will be working with our client’s customers, consultants, and software engineers to conceptualize, analyze, and design enhancements to our client’s Energy software system. The primary focus of the Consultant will be to meet the needs of the North American and European natural gas markets. You will assess the natural gas trading marketplace to identify functional gaps. The Consultant will perform cost/benefit analysis to identify enhancements for consideration for existing and potential clients. The Consultant will assist in coordinating and prioritizing development requests concerning the natural gas markets. You will demonstrate to clients how the system functionality can satisfy their business requirements. The Energy Consultant will also help to create test plans for major enhancements to the software, to be used by the QA team for future regression testing. This position will be located at a client site in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
QUALIFICATIONS INCLUDE:
Candidate must have 4 years of experience working with Energy Systems
Excellent interpersonal communications
Knowledge of one or more of the following areas: Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM), power settlements, ERCOT, NERC, ISO integration, business intelligence, Commodities, Equity, Stocks, natural gas
Strong math or quantitative background
Experience in designing a trading/risk management software package
Experience with related industry software packages
Consulting experience is a plus, but not required
Bachelors degree or higher in business, finance, math or computers
Proficient with Microsoft Office applications (e.g. EXCEL, WORD)
This position will require you to stay a year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Salary: Competitive
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
** Must be local and fluent in Portuguese.**
Our client’s Financial-based solutions offer proven tools to leading capital market institutions, government organizations, treasuries, insurance companies and asset managers. Financial-based solutions provide sophisticated trading tools, risk management capabilities and back-office processing within an elegant transaction workflow framework.
Our client is currently looking for individuals with deep financial markets competencies (including derivatives, bonds, loans, fixed income and stock exchange products) and professional standards to help them provide high quality professional services to their prestigious Latin American clientele. This candidate will be on the ground floor of a new group that will help market and implement their Financial trade processing and risk management solution.
The successful candidate will be responsible for advising clients on the use, configuration and customization of their Financial solution in areas such as valuation, risk management, settlements, accounting, collateral management and compliance. You may also be called upon to help represent our client and their products in sales opportunities.
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
Assist clients with the implementation of our client’s Financial and other products
Provide configuration advice and assistance working directly with our clients in their facilities
The right candidate may potentially expand upon this role to include assistance with project management and account management
REQUIREMENTS INCLUDE:
Bachelor’s degree in a business discipline (Economics, Administration or Information Management focused on banking/finance)
Candidates must be advanced in English. Spanish is a plus
Experience in the banking marketplace, preferably in trading, asset management, derivatives, or risk management
A strong technical aptitude is highly desirable
Candidates must be able to travel extensively up to and possibly including full time at client’s premises
Must be detail-oriented and organized
Must have excellent communication skills (written and spoken)
Candidates must be willing to learn and demonstrate high self-motivation.
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Salary: Competitive
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
