Technical Business Analyst --- Compliance and Reporting

Company Summary: Our client is the leading global provider of integrated consulting, processing services and products, engineered by financial services experts exclusively for the financial services industry. As pioneers of new ways of transforming operational capability and efficiency, they help clients successfully increase revenue, reduce costs and enhance control. A focused company, with global reach and an ability to draw on the enormous resources of its business partners, they are unique in the industry. Expertise includes business strategy, operational process design, business and technology architecture, program and project management, technology development & implementation, and change management They combine an unrivalled expertise in the financial services industry with innovative new thinking. It has the ability to deliver on the promises it makes to transform the operational capability and efficiency of its clients. It is a uniquely powerful combination that makes them the transformation firm for financial services. Underpinning everything that the Company does is a new and fundamentally different approach to delivering transformational change in the financial services industry. Our client brings a services-oriented, cross-enterprise perspective to business and technical organizational design. This delivers more responsive customer service, a more flexible operational and technological infrastructure, and greater enterprise control - at substantially lower costs. As the result of a growing engagement with a top-tier client, they are looking for a Technical Business Analyst to join the consulting team. The successful candidate could join the team as a contracted employee, or full-time employee. Job Responsibilities: Reporting to the VP of Business Analyst Group, the Analyst will focus on analyzing the control framework supporting the production of Exchange reports (i.e. OATS, ACT, TRACE, MSRB, etc.) and trading compliance rules and regulations. This is accomplished by working with the business, operations, compliance, and IT managers to improve and maintain the quality of exchange reports trading rules. Specific tasks include: · Proactively assisting the business, operations, compliance, and IT management in understanding the impact of strategic business initiatives on exchange reporting; · Analyzing the distributed workflow front to back to identify the root cause of reporting inconsistencies; · Conducting front office systems analysis (code reviews) to determine their compliance with trading and trade reporting rules · Perform data analysis of front office systems to determine the integrity of the information that is being reported · Recommending systems infrastructure improvements; and · Developing recommendations for process control improvements. In addition, our client offers: 1. A technology leader, and market leader, with an excellent reputation for providing value added services to top-tier financial institutions 2. Consulting in a major sell side brokerage firm, who is positioned to stay at the top of the field. 3. Team approach to winning and maintaining customers, company support and recognition of the value of the consultants 4. Growing company with opportunities for personal and professional growth 5. Opportunity to learn from the best ---- with access to the management team of our client, and the managers of their top-tier clients 6. Work in the top-tier financial institutions 7. Be part of a flat organization with the opportunity to widen your area of expertise and learn many disciplines and functions in financial services 8. Policy of promoting from within Base salaries will depend on the level of your experience, ranging between $100,000 and $150,000, with performance bonuses and an awesome benefits package. Please reply with your resume in MS Word format. No Zip files please! Thank you for your interest but only fully qualified candidates will be contacted. Our client is an equal opportunity employer.
REQUIREMENTS
Qualifications: · Preferred candidate will have 5+ years of technical experience in financial services in building, supporting or auditing front office sales and trading systems. · Experience may have included past responsibility for authoring technical specifications, securities processing, data analysis, and/or compliance related activities. · Experience with trade reporting, trading compliance or regulatory reporting is preferred. · Strong SQL and database analysis skills with particular knowledge of Sybase and UDB · Experience with a number of programming languages (i.e.C, C++, SQL, etc.) · Solid understanding of Equities, Fixed Income, Currency and Commodity products · Strong technical and analytical skills with an ability to understand complex workflows · Experience in the operational servicing of securities processing · Ability to evaluate procedures against compliance and reporting requirements · Strong communication and organizational skills · Ability to liaise with multiple disciplines and functions · High energy, self-starter · Ability to educate oneself in exchange regulations · Strong ability to partner with various stakeholders to understand complex reporting requirements · Developing test scripts · Coordinating user acceptance testing · Developing user requirements documentation · Local to downtown Manhattan The successful candidate, as either a full-time employee or contractor, will be joining a company that is proud of its entrepreneurial environment, encouraging new ideas and approaches, and the freedom to be creative. They are a technology and market leader, with an excellent reputation for top-quality consultants, and premium customer service. So if you have the requisite background and the right attitude, and desire to make a rewarding career move, we’d like to hear from you.