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Derivates Support Specialist position with a major financial firm in
midtown manhattan.

This is a perm/full time position Total comp is 100-125K plus bonus. Below is a brief
description.

If this is potentially of interest, please send me an MS
Word resume.
Thanks.
Jim Lang
Mitchell Martin
80 Wall St, NY, NY
jlang@itmmi.com

Job Responsibilities:
The Asset management IT is seeking a senior application analyst to fill a position
which provides IT applications support to Asset Management Derivatives
Group. Responsibilities include:

• Provide IT project management and
  application analysis support to derivatives trading, portfolio
  management and research for fixed income, equities and commodities
  derivatives.
• Write business specifications. Liaison between business
  users, developers, infrastructure technicians and quality assurance
  testers in support of application troubleshooting and project and
  enhancement efforts.
• Provide production support for mission critical
  applications.
• Provide end-user training and support for investment
  applications
• Provide SME advices to the senior management and
  mentoring to the junior members in the division

Requirements:

• A minimum of 8 years experience and proven success as an IT project
  manager/business analyst in the financial services/investments sectors
• Implementation/support experience in one or more of the following
  derivatives platforms: Calypso, Murex, Principia, Sophis, OpenLink,
  Summit, SunGard, other ASP or Prime Broker.
• Broad understanding of both fixed income and equity investment area functions and applications.
• Strong knowledge of financial instruments: both fixed Income and
  equities, FX, derivatives, private placements, etc.
• In-depth understanding of securities business requirements including trading,
  transaction processing, corporate action processing, valuation,
  performance and attribution reporting.
• Experience with analytics applications such as YieldBook, Lehman Point, Vestek, etc. · Exposure in Investment Management vendor packages such as CRD, Eagle Investment
  Systems PACE and STAR is a plus.
• Strong project management, organizational, analytical and communications skills required.
• Data modeling experience and working knowledge of relational database,
  preferably Oracle
• Project management experience in a full SDLC
  environment

posted by Victor Lloyd Smith @ 10:26 PM