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Required: Business Analyst w/Equities

The interview process is a phone screen followed by a personal interivew.

Location: Midtown Manhattan

Duration: 1 year plus

Job Description:

Our client, a major financial institution in Midtown Manhattan, is seeking a Business Analyst with Equities and Portfolio Management for their busy Equities Front Office Team.

This position is an IT business/applicatio n analyst position reporting to the Director of IT Equities Front Office, supporting Buy-side, Equity Investments Portfolio Management, Research and Trading.

The candidate for this position will be a seasoned business/applicatio n analyst with strong buy-side Equities Investments financial experience; an excellent communicator, comfortable with process, flexible and eager to address all problems and challenges; a well-rounded, hands-on analyst, with a wide range of application development experience and exposure to many solutions. The candidate will have a background of delivering a mix of small to medium custom applications, and integrating with vendor products.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

The candidate will be participating in two large projects:

1) Migration of Equity Front Office functionality from an older Oracle/Weblogic platform to a new Oracle/Weblogic Portal/Actuate/ Informatica platform

2) New business project implementing new funds supporting alpha generation products

The analyst will also participate in some production support.

Required education/experienc e:

- Undergraduate degree Finance or Information Technology discipline

- 8 - 12 years experience for a Wall Street based institutional brokerage, bank, or asset management firm supporting front office (vendor and in-house) applications with hands-on experience working with the technology

- Experience in leading initiatives and organizing work effort

- Ability to estimate analysis and development time

- Solid knowledge and experience of Portfolio Management and Research and Trading and approaches and techniques - CFA designation preferred

- Solid analytical and problem solving skills

- Adherence to a Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology

- Strong people skills and customer service mindset.

- Personal qualities:

Possess a strong work ethic, self-starter, creative, a focus on customer service, possess a high level of energy, enthusiasm, have good communication and people skills, team player, strong organizational skills, ability to multi-task, commitment and appreciation of the application of technology in support of our business.

The technology stack for Equities Front Office is:

- UNIX servers

- Java

- Windows XP desktops

- Oracle databases

- BEA Weblogic Portal

- IBM MQ messaging

- Actuate reports

- Informatica for ETL

- Autosys for scheduling

- GENTRAN for File Transfer services

- SOA, ESB and WEB Services are in initial adoption

Required Skills:

· EQUITIES

· PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

Thanks,

Riyas Sain || InfoTech Valley Inc
Email: riyas@infotechvalle y.com || Phone 610. 365.7304 || Fax 610.419-9306
4157 Ross Rd, Suite 102, Bethlehem, PA, 18020 || www.InfoTechValley. com

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