JCI Recruiting and Analytical Consulting

PHD, MS – FX Derivatives

Recruiter11 — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:39:21 +0000

Prestigious Technology firm is looking to hire quantitative specialists to help price derivatives and
implement risk management technology supporting different FX derivative
products: Responsibilities include:

Working with clients throughout the development lifecycle, including presale, installation,
implementation and training.
Writing technical and functional documentation and completing daily reporting
Formulating and applying quantitative methods to customize and test specific client related FX Derivatives implementations

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

BS or MS in Applied Mathematics, Computational Finance, Quantitative Finance,
Strong interest in financial markets
Knowledge of pricing and risk management issues related to interest rates, commodities, equities, credit or foreign exchange
Reasonably comfortable in a highly technical environment
Experience with SQL in Sybase, and/or Oracle, UNIX/NT/LINUX operating systems
Excellent documentation skills
Knowledge of XML, HTML, JAVA, C, C++ is desirable.

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Analytical Developer – Asset Management.

Recruiter11 — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:58:36 +0000

Top asset management firm is looking to hire an analytics programmer with knowledge of fixed income and credit instruments to develop their core analytics engine including risk management and portfolio management applications.

Responsibilities include:

working closely with research to develop applications.
managing ongoing development of the analytics engine.
supporting general applications development.

The candidate should have:

A BS degree in computer Science or equivalent. Top school MS or Ph.D
A strong grasp of fixed income and derivative instruments, including numerical techniques and monte-carlo simulations
Three to five years of analytical programming experience
Four plus years experience of hands-on Java programming with strong design and coding experience on the full spectrum of web technologies such as EJBs, Servlet, JSP, JavaScript, DHTML. Strong knowledge of data structures is a plus.
Solid understanding of RDBMS design, modeling, and implementation.
Strong understanding of application and data integration (Java & XML).

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Senior Database Administrator

Recruiter11 — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:52:25 +0000

Software firm seeks a senior DBA responsible for developing, maintaining, testing and implementing Microsoft SQL server database to support clients’ developed applications.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Regular maintenance of SQL Servers across varying environments
Managing backups, recovery including disaster recovery planning
Determining database physical and logical architecture for small to large projects
Building complex stored procedures, reports and SQL server integration packages
Assessing and building data architecture improvement changes

REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in business/computer science
Minimum of 6 years hands-on experience as a Microsoft SQL Database Administrator/Developer/Analyst
Experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Experience with SQL Server Integration Services
MCDBA Certification (preferred)
Knowledge of NetApp Storage and clustered 64-bit servers

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Human Resources Manager

Recruiter11 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:32:19 +0000

Software firm seeks a Human Resources Manager to lead and manage all aspects of human resources to include recruitment and retention, compensation, benefits, performance management, employee relations, policy development and administration, compliance with applicable federal and state regulations. Candidate must be analytically proficient and will be familiar the business and with management and technical and other requirements for open positions to properly assess new candidates. Duties will include overseeing all aspects of benefits administration, and humanre sources.

Qualifications: A BA or MA. Must have knowledge of multiple human resource
functional areas as well as federal and NY state employment and benefit laws. Excelent analytical skills and strong interpersonal and communication skills.

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Hedge Fund – Developer – High Frequency Trading

Recruiter11 — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:59:38 +0000

Top proprietary trading firm seeks developers to write and maintain C, C++ code to support algorithmic research and trading. This is a highly analytical role that requires excellent math skills. Work will include implementing long/short strategies and will involve computation in C/C+ and Delphi. Work will also include testing and modifying existing code and performing database queries. A BS, MS or Ph.D in Computer Science is preferred. Strong knowledge of either C, C++, Java is required. Experience writing and maintaining DLL’s is helpful. Candidates should have excellent knowledge of computer science theory including computer algorithms. Expertise with machine level coding is desirable. Good communication skills are a must. Please email resume in Word format to recruiter11 AT Jhirad.com

Structured Credit Modelling Specialist

Recruiter11 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:53:33 +0000

Major financial firm is looking for Structured Credit Quantitative Specialists. The ideal candidate will have a very strong knowledge of structured credit products preferably ABS/MBS. Responsibilities include fixed income modelling, backtesting, pricing, cash flow analysis and review of prospectuses.

Candidates should have an MS or PH.D in mathematics, physics or computer science and 5+ years experience working with structured credit products including loan level prepayment and cash flow analysis and relevant modeling. Excellent programming skills in C++ in Unix/Linux platform are a must.

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Emerging Markets Consultant

Recruiter11 — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:17:54 +0000

Major Technology and software firm seeks emerging market product specialists to work with clients in analysis of its business and processes while servicing the companies main technology offering. Work will deal with the pricing and risk computation of complex emerging market products throughout the whole development lifecycle, including pre-sale, system presentation, installation, implementation, training, and updating newer versions. Further duties will include:

Diagnosing technical and functional issues with software and providing support including maintaining constant written and verbal communication with clients
Documenting and conducting quality assurance. Writing and distributing technical and functional documentation as well as complete project planning and support activities.
Work with clients throughout the whole development lifecycle, including pre-sale, system presentation, installation, implementation, training, updates, hot line assistance, etc.
Take responsibility for training the clients to ensure their autonomy in the setting of system parameters and product functionalities
Carry-out tasks to ensure client satisfaction and build products and services
Monitor deadlines and priorities, and quality and rigorousness of system testing
Maintain a constant and transparent working relationship with the team members
Write and distribute technical and functional documentation
Complete daily client support activities and long term internal projects
Act autonomously in the boundaries set by manager
Conduct periodic self assessments in any given situation
Become aware of own limitations and capabilities, ask for explanations, build knowledge
Become be a key player in own career development

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE -

A BS or MS in Applied Mathematics, Computational Finance, Quantitative Finance or other technical or quantitative discipline.
2-4 years of customer service and support experience.
Strong interest in financial markets. Knowledge of front office and risk management issues related to interest rates, commodities, equities, credit or foreign exchange.
Reasonably comfortable in a highly technical environment. Basic knowledge of SQL in Sybase, and/or Oracle, UNIX/NT/LINUX operating systems. Excellent documentation skills.
Experience with all aspects of the software development lifecycle
Software architecture knowledge and experience.

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Risk Management Consultant

Recruiter11 — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:59:46 +0000

Major technology and software firm seeks quantitative specialists with a strong computer background to provide enterprise-wide risk solutions to existing and prospective clients. Work involves dealing with clients throughout the whole development lifecycle, including pre-sale, system presentation, installation, implementation, training, updates. Further work includes:

Diagnosing technical and functional issues with software and providing support including maintaining constant written and verbal communication with clients
Documenting and conducting quality assurance. Writing and distributing technical and functional documentation as well as complete project planning and support activities.

Required experience includes BS or MS in Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Cognitive Science or equivalent and 1-3 years of relevant work experience. Familiarity with JAVA and C, Coding skills and interest in finance are a must. Excellent technical documentation skills and communications are also required. Other preferable experience may include Perl, Python, Ruby, LISP, Scheme, Erlang, Solaris, GNU knowledge / experience , Strong JAVA or C, Relational Databases, UNIX / Linux Operating Systems UI-Design . Experience with all aspects of the development lifecycle is helpful. Software architecture knowledge and experience in Financial Markets or Financial Risk Management knowledge is helpful but not required. Fluency in Spanish is a big plus.

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Quantitative Researcher – Proprietary Trading

Recruiter11 — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:45:57 +0000

Prestigious hedge fund seeks a reasearcher responsible for development and implementation and maintenance of quantitative models used for systematic trading in global financial and commodities futures markets. Duties include implementing basic research into systematic solutions for alpha extraction from worldwide financial and commodities futures markets through mathematical and computerized modeling.

Model both market based and portfolio wide solutions.
Augment current models with updated thinking and concepts.
Support the coding of these solutions and concepts onto computer platforms.

Qualifications:

Higher degree required – Masters or Ph.D.
Deep math & statistical background preferred
Experience in econometric methods demonstrated through academic work (thesis) or professional work experience
Knowledge of financial markets are a plus
Knowledge and ability to work in statistical packages such as Matlab and/or Splus
Strong communication skills

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Application Developer – Investment Management – San Francisco

Recruiter11 — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:56:17 +0000

Financial firm seeks senior developer with strong credit, credit derivatives experience to support research and trading. The candidate must have 3-5 years of applications development experience in Java, JavaScript, HTML, Flash, CSS, AJAX , DOM scripting. MS SQL server and PHP MySQL experience is a plus. Excellent analytical, problem solving and good communication skills are a must. Person must have a top school BS, MS or Ph.D degree in computer science or other technical discipline. Please email resume in Word format recruiter11 AT Jhirad.com