2. Stakeholder Management – will need to manage the stakeholders, manage timeliness, agree on the key deliveries.
3. 8-10 years of experience.
4. Understanding of Commodities and Market Data – Preferred
5. Strong communication skills, to stakeholders and peers.
6. Experience of working in a high-pressure environment with aggressive delivery timeliness.
Description:
Delivery of a part or of the whole of the code of an application development , following the project plan and functional specifications delivered by the business analysis.
Analysis, development or configuration of existing or new software module.
Involvement in the module deployment and integration.
Follow the appropriate good practices and standards.
Our well established Hedge Fund client is seeking and experienced Business Analyst / Project Manager to join their London based team in a permanent role:
This role is circa £75 – 90k base salary and will be based onsite in central London 4 days a week with 1 home office.
Your Role:
We seek an experienced Business Analyst for our Hedge Fund business. The successful candidate will work closely with all different business stakeholders on workflow automation solutions concerning compliance, risk, portfolio management, operations, and trading.
The candidate should demonstrate strong technical skills and financial product knowledge. They must have experience working alongside a global team to deliver solutions that adhere to firm wide standards. They will oversee the implementation and configuration to provide the solution to the end business user. The role is one that requires full understanding of the in house and third-party systems and dependencies. It is also required to be able to design and create the reporting and controls that need to be in place to maintain the solutions.
Job Description:
Work closely with Compliance team to produce regulatory reporting for the firm to be compliant with regulators requirements.
Elicit requirements using a variety of techniques to build the specification.
Critically evaluate information from multiple sources, reconciling conflicts and providing options to the business sponsor.
Act as conduit between the business sponsor and the software development team/third party vendor.
Proactive communication with business units around progress and delivery timeframes.
Design and document the controls required to maintain solutions.
Plan and design the implementation phase of any project while considering go live and ongoing support process.
Oversee and/or implement the deployment of solutions into the live environment. It is possible that the final solution could be fully controlled by the change team.
Provide user documentation for any applications and processes implemented.
Skills & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in business or IT related field and relevant work experience.
Comprehensive understanding of financial instruments including but not limited to: CDS, IRS, fixed income, equities, equity derivatives, ETD, Commodity and FX.
We are working with an Investment Manager in London who are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer with solid understanding of Networking.
The role will focus on maintaining the firm’s current hybrid cloud, network, Internet and server connectivity infrastructure, and the firewall estate for a demanding business environment. The individual will deal with various issues, including On-Prem/Cloud Infrastructure, networking problems, and routine scheduled network infrastructure upgrades. The candidate must be hands-on and have experience working with Azure, Cisco, M365 and Windows Server. IaC concepts, with scripting know-how using PowerShell and Terraform to automate deployments and tasks.
You would be expected to:
Maintain and monitor a highly available and complex hybrid cloud and network infrastructure
Perform daily system and network monitoring
Repair and recover from hardware and software failures across the entire infrastructure stack
Identify issues proactively and suggest solutions
Provide some end-user support including VIP support
Manage switch and firewall software and update deployments
Do occasional out-of-hours and weekend work
Have strong interpersonal skills
Be eager to learn and have attention to detail
Produce and maintain documentation
Have a technical understanding of:
The maintenance of network solutions and improving the efficiency of current networks
Installing, configuring and supporting network equipment including, firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers and WiFi access points.
Experience of network switches and firewalls, internally used are Juniper and Palo Alto but other experience is OK.
Supporting Windows Services such as certificate services, AD, DNS, NTP, GPOs and DHCP
Configuring firewalls, routing and switching, to maximise network efficiency and security
Maximising network performance through ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting
Maintaining a schedule of updates to the latest firmware releases
Investigating faults in a network
Reporting network status to key stakeholders
Azure cloud computing concepts and design
Supporting all M365-related services, both backend and front end.
Knowledge of automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible or Powershell
Azure AD/Entra ID and related services like Conditional Access.