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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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