Admin. Asst. $50/55 - NYC location LSSGJA44

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Administrative Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Will work directly with the three firm Principals providing administrative support, assisting with correspondence, filing, research, follow-up to phone queries, etc.
• Manage Principal’s schedules using on-line calendar
• Handle travel arrangements for Principals and project staff, working with outside travel agency
• Handle personal tasks for Principals (filing, phone calls, correspondence) as needed

Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – professional, friendly and efficient on the phone and in person
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent computer skills (word processing, spreadsheet, database, Outlook scheduling, etc.)
• Ability to juggle and prioritize many tasks
• Thorough, accurate, detail-oriented
• Pro-active and independent – can see what needs to be done

Qualifications

• High school graduate, some college or further training preferred
• Minimum of two years of administrative experience
• Ability to make a commitment to the position long term (minimum of three years)

Benefits:

• Fully paid medical benefits
• 4 week time-off package (for vacation, sick and personal days)
• 8 major holidays
• Employer 401k Contributions (3% of salary) after 1 year of service
• Employee Salary Deferral 401k contributions after 1 year (up to 15% of salary - fully vested)
• Profit Sharing after 2 years of service
• Transit Check program available
• Dental, Short-term disability benefits available

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Accounting Manager/up t115K CODE CMGPRJA680

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Salary: up to 115K……………..

Roles and Responsibilities:

Essential duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following to insure compliance with policy, GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements:

· Develops, maintains, and enhances a strong control environment in accordance with Sarbanes Oxley

· Implements new accounting or business requirements (whether GAAP or SP&P) into the existing control environment

· Completes monthly financial statement close in accordance with GAAP, corporate time line and policies

· Reviews monthly and quarterly variance analysis to ensure the answers are complete, concise and adequate

· Oversees payable department and general ledger staff

· Special Accounting projects as required by CMG or corporate Finance

· Preparation of Tax related reporting packages

· Liaise with Brand Finance and Credit and Collections team to ensure that collections are being handled effectively and efficiently in accordance with Company policy

· Reports to a Regional Finance Director/Controller

Candidates must have 5+ years related general accounting experience (for example, closing books, reconciliations), which must include Public Accounting experience and Sarbanes-Oxley experience. Industry experience at a communications/professional services firm strongly preferred, as is knowledge of SAP. Must have CPA certification. This position requires travel and work in Manhattan and nearby Northern New Jersey.

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Sr. Cisco Engineer NYC $90000 - $105000

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Our client is a New York financial institution associated with the highest integrity and technical performance standards.

they run a mission critical 24/7 environment. Located in the Wall Street area, they offer a competitive salary base of $105K, 401k, full medical benefits, tuition reimbursement, health club benefits and much more.

SENIOR CISCO ENGINEER

( CCIE A PLUS )

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Performs data communications functions related to the brokers and member firms

2. Diagnoses problems using network tools, recommends solutions and coordinates repair efforts

3. Develops procedures to support daily operations

4. Monitors the network activities and take preventive actions if necessary

5. Interfaces with vendors to resolve network-related problem

6. Performs traffic measurement, path testing to establish the baseline

7. Evaluates new technology and services to meet the business need

8. Ensures installed network is operating efficiently and effectively

9. Performs in-depth analysis and design of network architectures

10. Effectively identify and communicate the RISK of any network related implementations

11. Works with the Information Security Engineers to enforce the Corporate Security Policy

12. Provide on-call support during off-hours on a rotation basis

13. Incumbent may perform additional tasks and/or special projects as directed by management

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Education: Bachelor of Science degree in computer science, MIS or equivalent

2. Experience: 5-8 years experience in the Data Communication field including multiple routing protocols (EIGRP,BGP or RIP) and large network design

3. Special Equipment Knowledge: Cisco routers and switches

4. Skills: Strong knowledge of TCP/IP and OSI model

5. Qualities: Demonstrated analytic, written and oral communication skills

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Sr Property Underwriter to $125K NYC SBAJA8095

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A Senior Underwriter is responsible for underwriting individual property accounts (focusing on Fortune 2000 type business), carrying out the marketing plan, maintaining technical underwriting expertise, and communicating market developments.

Responsibilities of the Position:

· Marketing retail brokers and primary companies to obtain suitable business.

· Evaluating the technical aspects of risks, both from an engineering and underwriting standpoint.

· Determining acceptable underwriting terms and conditions to write profitable business.

· Determining exposures, normal loss exposures (NLE’s) and MFLs.

· Pricing of risks for both quota share, and excess layers.

· Issuance of necessary paperwork such as binders, certificates and endorsements.

· Maintenance of complete underwriting files.

· Servicing accounts for renewals and other items, including meetings with Brokers and Insureds.

· Review of policy wording.

· Assistance with premium collections when necessary.

· Evaluation of claims, in co-operation with the claims department.

Skills & Knowledge:

· A minimum of 5 to 10 years underwriting experience with a large insurance/

reinsurance company required

· Bachelor Degree required - an engineering degree preferred

· CPCU and/or ARe classes or other insurance studies preferred

· Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point

· Excellent analytical skills

· Solid communication skills

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Analyst - Hedge / Risk & Accounting White Plains, NY MBAJA2

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Analyst – Hedge / Risk & Accounting $85000 - $95000

experienced analyst with a strong background in the hedging and risk management of multi-currency financial products OR an experienced multi-currency accountant with knowledge of the hedging treatment of financial instruments. CPA qualification and / or working experience of IAS39 / FAS133 directives are useful but not essential.

The successful candidate is likely to be working within a small / medium size investment or international bank in the middle office or at a major software supplier. He / she will work as a member of one of the product development and support teams, developing new functionality and providing support to clients for production calls. He / she will be involved in all aspects of the software development life cycle (requirements definition, project estimating, functional design, system test, quality assurance, implementation and post implementation support). The position reports to the project manager of the team.

The Role

The position will:

· 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.

Skills required

The following skills are essential:

· 3 years minimum business and / or system experience, likely to have been gained working in, or closely with, the middle office area of a small / medium size investment / international bank

o Comprehensive knowledge of the characteristics, pricing, risk and hedging treatment of derivatives, capital market and more complex treasury instruments.

· Solid, proven analytical skills.

· Strong oral, written and presentation skills

· MS Office to intermediate level

A distinct advantage for this position would be:

· The accounting treatment arising from the creation of hedging structures and relationships.

· Knowledge of the software development life cycle

· SQL experience

· Experience working with / for another software vendor or consultancy

A distinct advantage for this position would be:

· The accounting treatment arising from the creation of hedging structures and relationships.

· Knowledge of the software development life cycle

· SQL experience

· Experience working with / for another software vendor or consultancy

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Front office fixed income C#.Net developer will pay 115k base plus bonus. HNRJA6570

solid C#.Net developer with strong front office fixed income background.

Technology is second to business knowledge.

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Admin. Asst. $50/55 - NYC location LSSGJA44

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Administrative Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Will work directly with the three firm Principals providing administrative support, assisting with correspondence, filing, research, follow-up to phone queries, etc.
• Manage Principal’s schedules using on-line calendar
• Handle travel arrangements for Principals and project staff, working with outside travel agency
• Handle personal tasks for Principals (filing, phone calls, correspondence) as needed

Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – professional, friendly and efficient on the phone and in person
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent computer skills (word processing, spreadsheet, database, Outlook scheduling, etc.)
• Ability to juggle and prioritize many tasks
• Thorough, accurate, detail-oriented
• Pro-active and independent – can see what needs to be done

Qualifications

• High school graduate, some college or further training preferred
• Minimum of two years of administrative experience
• Ability to make a commitment to the position long term (minimum of three years)

Benefits:

• Fully paid medical benefits
• 4 week time-off package (for vacation, sick and personal days)
• 8 major holidays
• Employer 401k Contributions (3% of salary) after 1 year of service
• Employee Salary Deferral 401k contributions after 1 year (up to 15% of salary - fully vested)
• Profit Sharing after 2 years of service
• Transit Check program available
• Dental, Short-term disability benefits available

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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7 Opening on the Calypso Team 1 manager and 6 developers. these people can be Consultants or permanent BNRJA557

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Consultants will work 8 hour days. Paid by day.

Full time up to 250 T otal for s enior .

Mid level – tell me what you're earning

We are looking for 6 people for Calypso team. 2 for each business team…
Below is description…
3 - Senior hands-on, developer, one each for Credit, Equity and Interest Rate Derivatives
All candidates must have at least 3-4 years derivatives development experience in senior development roles, they must possess strong C++ and/or Java skills, Sybase/SQL and understand object oriented development. They must know well the derivatives products, schedules and processing of derivatives, strong knowledge of yield curves, volatility surfaces etc. and have worked in a major Wall Street firm…

3 – Junior to Mid level Hands-on, derivatives developers in one each for Credit, Equity and Interest Rate Derivatives
All candidates must have at least 2 years hands-on development skills working on Derivatives front office systems. Must have Java (C++ would be considered if very strong in that) building derivatives systems. Should understand the products, object representation for these products and have worked in a major

1. Manager- Calypso Trade Support role. 250TC

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Technical project manager - contract - minimum 3 months - CODE SAKJA38

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Location is lower Manhattan
Advertising agency

$80 per hour corp to corp

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER JOB

The technical project manager will be a hands-on technical leader who is
responsible for planning, coordinating and managing resources as well as
directly contributing to the technical product. This position will be
responsible for managing project team personnel, monitoring
deliverables, interacting with clients & third parties, defining the
overall project architecture, ensuring proper communication between team
members and serving as an interface to the customer.

The Technical Project Manager acts as the *honest broker* between
business and technology, and facilitates communications between the
solution development team and the business sponsor in order to maximize
information sharing, manage expectations, resolve problems and effect a
productive working relationship among all team members.

Duties:

* Achieves project operational objectives by contributing information
and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and
completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality,
and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits;
identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing
change.

* Meets project financial objectives by forecasting requirements;
scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective
actions.

* Maintains information system by developing and enforcing documentation
requirements; enforcing change control.

* Protects organization's value by designing and enforcing security
systems; keeping analytical information confidential.

* Improves quality of results by implementing unit, system and
integration testing cycles.

* Maintains product quality by designing and executing testing.

Experience:

BA/BS degree or equivalent, advanced technical degrees are desirable. A
minimum of ten (5) years of work experience in technology systems
development, delivery and project management, including familiarity with
milestone-based product delivery methodology.

Business process and systems analysis experience with companies creating
and enhancing web-based products or services, particularly software
applications.

Ability to perform against tight deadlines.

The candidate must be a skilled professional who applies a broad basis
of existing theories, principles, and concepts to software quality
assurance, software engineering and project management. The candidate
must have experience in software engineering, software development or
software project management . The candidate will have a strong awareness
of software engineering standards and their application.

Skills/Qualifications:

Technical Management, Software Development Process, Software Design,
Software Testing, Developing Standards, Planning, Software Architecture,
Project Management, Foster Teamwork, Problem Solving
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EXPERIENCE SOUGHT. Please include the job code with the position.

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Business Analyst--Fixed Income White Plains, NY MBAJA1

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Experienced business analyst with a strong background in capital markets instruments, markets and trade pricing / processes.

The successful candidate is likely to be working, or have previously worked within a small / medium size investment or international bank (sell side), 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 this business line

He / she will work as a member of one of the product development and support teams, developing new functionality and providing support to clients for production calls. He / she will be involved in all aspects of the software development life cycle (requirements definition, project estimating, functional design, system test, quality assurance, implementation and post implementation support). The position reports to the project manager of the team.

The Role

The position will:

· 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.

Skills required

The following skills are essential:

· Minimum 3 years relevant business and / or relevant system experience.

o Knowledge and practical experience working with a variety of fixed income and capital markets instruments.

o Hands on experience in two or more of the following processes relating to fixed income / capital markets products:

o Pricing and P/L calculations

o Industry standard trade confirmation / matching processes and systems

o Settlements

o Accounting

· Solid, proven analytical skills.

· Strong oral, written and presentation skills

· MS Office to intermediate level

A distinct advantage for this position would be:

· Specific knowledge and experience of Mortgage Backed Securities

· Knowledge of the software development life cycle

· Experience of SQL

· Internal / external consultancy experience

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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