Business Analyst-Derivatives White Plains MBAJA3

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Business Analyst-Derivatives

We are seeking an experienced junior – mid level business analyst to work in the Misys Opics Product Center, our global center of expertise for the Opics treasury and capital markets banking application.

As part of the product development and support team, you will become a product specialist and be involved in all aspects of the software development lifecycle (requirements definition, project estimating, functional design, system test, quality assurance, implementation and post implementation support). You will also provide pre-sales support to our clients, prospects and employees worldwide.

The successful candidate is likely to be working, or have previously worked within a small / medium size investment or international bank or hedge fund, in either the middle or back office. Alternatively, they may be working or have worked at a major software supplier developing and supporting solutions for these business lines.

The Role

· Liaise with clients to understand and define user requirements and use these to create functional specifications.

· Liaise with technical counterparts to ensure correct technical and functional flow/design.

· Create test cases to ensure the system processes according to functional specifications and execute tests to ensure functional requirements are met.

· Provide functional guidance to programmers to resolve functional issues.

· Provide implementation support and training to clients.

· Support the sales effort by demonstrating the product and addressing questions.

· Provide input to resolve functional problems reported by clients.

· Occasionally travel to clients for on-site product support or delivery of other customer services offerings

Skills required

· Strong commitment to customer satisfaction

· Minimum 3 years experience working in a treasury / capital markets environment with knowledge of back office operations (settlements and accounting), middle office (position and / or risk), or front office (trading)

· Comprehensive understanding of the characteristics and processing requirements of one or more of the following financial instruments:

o Credit derivatives

o Interest rate swaps

o Structured products

o Options

o Swap options

o Financial futures

o Caps and floors

· Accomplished user of Microsoft Windows and Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.)

· Strong analytical skills

· Strong technical aptitude

· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

· Self-motivated

A distinct advantage for this position would be:

· Knowledge of the software development cycle

· Financial accounting experience concerning the treatment of the instruments listed above

· SQL experience

· Experience working with VB or VB.net; or with Oracle, Sybase, or SQL databases

Email resume in Word to jeffaltman@cisny.com ONLY IF YOU HAVE THE EXPERIENCE SOUGHT. Please include the job code with the position.

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DB2 DBA in Union NJ COEDF DBAALJA65

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Position: DB2 Application DBA

Reporting to: Application Development Manager

Salary: 100k

Job Description:

As a member of Application Development Team, the DB2 Application DBA will be the primary application DBA of DB2 databases for installed Supply Chain applications.

Key responsibilities:

• Work closely with DB2 System DBA to install DB2, apply latest fixpacks, create database, perform database upgrades
• Provide data input to the System DBA for creating table spaces
• Maintain DB2 Variable values (registry values, environment values, configuration parameters
• Provide capacity projections to the System DBA
• Create tables, indexes, views and other database objects
• Define schemas, users and security policies
• Perform Exports/Imports/Loads of data
• Monitor DB2 processes and logs for any anomalies, provide corrective actions
• Assist with SQL scripts needed for the installed applications, create and maintain shell scripts to automate tasks
• Perform DB2 tuning, including optimizing complex SQL statements, for best possible performance of installed applications
• Provide assistance to developers for resolving technical DB2 issues, document and implement DB2 best practices on AIX
• Interface with business analysts & developers with regards to application, logical & physical database design, create and maintain logical entity relationship diagrams, transform logical models into physical data models

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in DB2 database administration, supporting large databases ( upwards of 1 TB )
• 3+ years of experience with DB2 EEE and partitioned databases
• 3+ years of application development experience involving DB2
• 3+ years hands on AIX experience
• 3+ years of experience or participation in large-scale enterprise application implementations
• 3+ years hands on performance monitoring tools and extensive experience in large-scale database performance tuning required
• Supply chain management applications related experience is preferable

Email resume in Word to jeffaltman@cisny.com ONLY IF YOU HAVE THE EXPERIENCE SOUGHT. Please include the job code with the position.

NO RELOCATION. NO VISA TRANSFERS. NO 3RD PARTIES. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES.

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