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 £70 – 80k 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/Project manager 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.
Ability to write complex SQL.
Understand both Oracle and SQL Server.
Ability to work with XSLT with respect to configuring XML files to maintain mappings for incoming and outgoing feeds.
Experience in the coordination, managing and planning the release of application changes into live trading environments.
Ability to work independently to meet goals and objectives with minimal supervision.
Team player with excellent consultative and communication skills, and the proven ability to work effectively with management and staff, vendors and consultants.
Strong problem solving and time management skills.
Ability to continually sort assignments, manage conflicting priorities and accept changing deadlines.
Ability to work well under pressure, responding to critical requests calmly and efficiently.
Exceptional interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to form and maintain effective working relationships at all levels and across reporting lines.
Discretion in handling confidential or sensitive information.
Familiarity with Bloomberg SAPI/Data License and DAPI.
Fantastic opportunity to work for an established financial client in Zurich, Switzerland who are looking to add a C# Developer to the team, working closely with Front Office systems.
YOUR TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Deliver high quality solutions in tight timeframes to meet demanding customer requirements
Work closely with business and other IT units to gather and understand requirements
Contribute to software and architectural design decisions
Contribute to a robust automated test suite in order to maintain a high test coverage
Become involved in the process of a constant quality improvement and best practices implementation
Maintain close interaction with various business units (Trading, Middle office, Backoffice, Treasury, Risk Control, …)
OUR REQUIREMENTS:
Fluency in English is essential
Experience building scalable, distributed applications in .NET / C#
Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures
Experience in implementation of APIs for integration with internal and external systems
Experience in developing software in an agile environment
Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
Strong problem solving skills & ability to learn in a fast paced environment
NICE-TO-HAVE:
Experience in C++ implementation
Experience of working with design thinking techniques in iterative sprints is an advantage to this role
Experience in Jenkins configuration
Experience in a messaging system integration (RMQ, Kafka)
Our growing financial technology client is looking for a talented Senior Front-End Engineer to join their small New York based team in a permanent role.
Their focus is towards UI / UX based on an Angular framework. Someone who has built customer facing Front-Ends before, or that they know how to go about it from start to finish and help lead the development. An interest in finance or an understanding of this area will be needed.
What You’ll Do
You’ll join our clients small Product Team as a Senior Front-End Engineer (HTML/JavaScript). This role will expose you to our rapidly evolving product suite, with consistent opportunity to make a direct impact on the business.
Our client is a small firm, so they need their engineers to take ownership of their projects. You’ll do more than merely “code to a wireframe.” From the start, you’ll be helping bring products from concept to production while solving distinct design, UI and UX challenges.
Some responsibilities will include:
Become an expert in our front-end stack (JavaScript, Angular, HTML5…)
Learn about our backend stack, coded in Scala, MySQL and AWS technologies.
Collaborate across the entire organization, including backend engineers, data operations team, client services and product managers.
Develop expertise in a broad array of financial topics.
Critical Skills / Abilities
Our ideal candidate has at least 5 years professional experience building applications in HTML5 and JavaScript and experience with:
Web frameworks such as Angular or React
Web application layout and design using a CSS preprocessor (Sass, Stylus), and a templating language (Pug, Mustache)
Continuous Delivery, including integration testing with tools such as Cypress or Selenium
Additional skills that we would love to see but are not required:
Familiarity Node.js and/or Puppeteer
Personal interest in capital markets, finance and investing (even if you’ve never traded stock).