Thursday, November 16, 2006

Derivatives IT Production Support- experience supporting any of the following Summit, Calypso, and/or Sophis will pay 100-120k base plus bonus 2 spots



CODE HNRJAFI
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ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE (in order of importance)

Including: Education, technical knowledge (number of years), company/industry experience, IT knowledge (levels required), languages etc.

Good Working Knowledge of one or more of the following: Summit, Calypso, and/or Sophis

Good Analysis skills

SQL experience (1 year), SYBASE preferred

Perl (or other similar scripting language) (2 year)

Previous experience supporting Front Office and/or Back Office applications

IDEAL EXPERIENCE

Derivatives Knowledge

XML

Java experience (1 year)

C/C++ experience

Autosys/Control-M

Business / Function:

Derivatives Information Technology

Role:

Derivatives IT Production Support

Functional Direction To:

Overview:

Highlights of department:

(Please give an overview of the business area and describe current and future projects/areas that the candidate will be working)

The Structured Products Support department is responsible for support and maintenance of the applications suite used to support the Structured Product businesses, including middle and back office functions.

The support group also covers first line support for front, middle and back office for the Structured Credit derivatives, Emerging Market derivatives, Structured Fund derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives and Equity Derivatives businesses front office.

Scheduled projects include, but are not limited to, the Calypso upgrade project, global distribution of the Global Calypso platform to London and Hong Kong, Credit on-boarding project, structured credit product expansion, the Unified Grid project and the build out of the Derivatives IT Global Support model.

Responsible For:

(Please describe the role that the candidate will be undertaking within the team)

As part of the calypso BAU and support group within Structured Products IT, you will be responsible for:

Responsibilities

· Building a good working rapport with the user base, the development team and other IT groups.

· Ensuring that the Calypso and/or Summit systems and all components are running (according to SLA’s and PLA’s)

· Ensuring that all processes within the system are functioning correctly and batch jobs running according to expected schedules.

· Establish and maintain batch monitoring capability

· Investigating and resolving (where appropriate) issues raised by users

· Escalating issues (where appropriate) to third line support for resolution

· Answer emails, and phone calls; Track all issues raised with the support desk; management reporting; trend analysis

· Providing second line support for overnight batch processes.

· Proactively work to improve the production environment

· Liaising with other IT groups to resolve issues across system boundaries

· Gate Keepers of the production environments

· Work closely with the Configuration/Release Management team

· Liaising with Calypso and/or Summit (3rd party Vendor) for core bug fixes

· Work closely with all off-shore resources; manage smooth support transition under “follow the sun” global support model.

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Assistant Controller NYC CODE RPHILJA $85000 - $95000



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Assistant Controller

Reports to: Controller

Purpose: Manage all financial statement preparation and reporting and all general accounting operations. Assist the Controller and CFO in performance of their responsibilities.

Program Responsibilities include:

Prepares monthly financial statements and reports; manages preparation of all G/L account analysis.

Manages all general accounting operations including C/R, C/D, A/R, A/P and payroll. Supervises related staff.

Maintains and manages all general ledger transactions.

Maintains and manages all bank and investment transfers and reconciliations.

Monitors actual versus budget variance reporting by department.

Assists with preparation of annual budget.

Maintains Chart of Accounts and integrity of accounting system.

Supervises and prepares necessary year-end audit schedules and analyses.

Provides necessary financial support, guidance and advice to team leaders, program managers, and other staff members.

Other financial duties as requested by Controller and CFO.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in accounting.

Five-eight years of related experience; some not-for-profit preferred.

CPA

Excellent supervisory skills; ability to multi-task; deal with many different personalities.

Some experience with computer conversions helpful.

Professional image

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3 network positions on Long Island

LEAD SYSTEMS ENGINEER- MELVILLE, LONG ISLAND - $80-$90k
Our client in Melville, Long Island is looking for a System

Our client in Melville wants to pay $80-$90K plus bonus and
extensive medical and personal benefits

for a lead systems engineer with experience with the following:

environment of over 100 servers and over 1000 desktops

experience with Exchange 2000 or 2003

Active directory experience

depth knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP as it pertains to Windows
environment

experience with IIS

Experience with backup/recovery software

VB scripting or any other scripting tool

Microsoft clusters

experience with SAN technology

participated in disaster recovery testing at remote sites

Lead Systems Engineer

Department: IT

Immediate Manager

· Director, Technology Solutions

Supervisory Responsibilities

§ Coordinate and track activities project resources.

Description of Job Responsibilities:

· Support the Server Architect for strategic efforts involving the Server infrastructure in the Data center.

· Ensure that the servers are fully operational by reviewing and testing patches and hot fixes to all code running on servers.

· Assist in developing and maintaining all operating system, hardware and software configurations for Servers.

· Assist in establishing standards for all Servers.

· Meet with vendors to establish hardware roadmaps.

· Develop test plans and Change Management documents with Server Architect

· Test all changes to standard configurations (new revisions), and make recommendations for implementation

· Assist in the design and integration of Server solutions

· Assist Server Architect in creation of cost/benefit analysis

· Interact with other engineering and business units to ensure that all relevant technical requirements and develop proper test environments.

· Work with implementation teams to create deployment plans and methodology.

· Act as a higher level of support to Infrastructure Services engineers on more complex and possibly chronic troubles working through resolution

· Participate in the design and recovery of systems through backup operations and/or Disaster recovery planning

· Review and maintain awareness of all device revisions/bugs/recommendations in the production environment through consistent contact with vendors and/or web notifications.

· Identify and test all patches and fixes for client hardware/operating systems.

· Prepare clear, professional written technical and process documentation for new technologies and practices

· Must be able to work with varying levels of expertise (some persons with minimal understanding of the technology in use)

· Ensure effective project planning, monitoring, issue resolution and achievement of specified quality, timelines, cost and deliverables

· Overall accountability for projects assigned to ensure completion in a timely manner

· Person will participate in 24 x 7 support

· Participate in Disaster recovery exercises as required.

Technical Skills Required:

· Strong knowledge of Server operation systems (Unix, Linux and/or Windows)

· Experience working in mission-critical environment

· Advanced knowledge with installation, configuration and support of Sun and/or HP servers.

· Working knowledge of WAN and LAN Architectures and equipment. (Ethernet Cabling, Frame Relay, Networking Essentials)

· Advanced knowledge in Visio, Excel and Word.

· Advanced experience with UNIX O/S and Unix Scripting and/or Windows Scripting

· Advanced experience with Server Management applications such as: HP Openview

· Strong knowledge with Data storage environments including SANs and NAS devices

Minimal Skills Required:

· Proven knowledge/competency in the above Technical Skills requirements. Any technical certifications in one or more of those skills is desired

· MCSE or equivlant desired but not required

· Bachelor of Science Degree (or equivalent)

· Minimum 5 years full-time experience in a large Server environment with a minimum of 2 years being in design and analysis of Servering solutions

· Strong knowledge of Project Management concepts and tools

· Must be a self-starter and be able to work well independently and in a team

Common Names for Position

· Senior Server Engineer

· Senior Technical Engineer

· Senior Server Administrator

· Senior Server Analyst


position # 2
My hiring manager at the client site in Nassau County, Long Island wants to hire yesterday!!!!
The job requirements are simple…..expert level senior Microsoft engineer with 5+ years of enterprise level Active Directory and Exchange experience working for global companies. Has to be a nuts and bolts person and not a day to day admin. Must be a Microsoft technologist, hands on familiarity with all of their infrastructure products, VMWare and Citrix experience is a significant plus as well as Microsoft ISA server.
if you are interested and believe you are qualified, please send me your most recent updated resume. please make sure that the technologies required are clearly displayed in your resume.
this is a full time position interviews are either by phone or face to face within the next 48 hours.
salary range is in-between $85-$98k - so please if you are earning over $100 or below $80k, please respect their budgetary guidelines.
thank you in advance


POSITION #3

SUMMARY Leading technology company has an immediate need for an experienced Hp-UX systems administrator. Must have proven experience in monitoring, upgrades, tuning, troubleshooting and maintaining HP-UX systems. Must have knowledge of HP Superdomes. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES Investigate problems, identify their source, determine possible solutions, test and implement solutions. 1. Managing HP-UX systems using LVM command line utilities. 2. Ability to install Operating System patches and software. 3. Experience with command line shell scripts, sed, awk, perl to automate environment. 4. Troubleshoot systems, identify and correct malfunctions and other operational difficulties. 5. Identify utilization patterns and their effect on operation/system availability and performance expectations. Use of HP Glance, Performance Manager, Top etc. 6. Ensure timely on-call notification of maintenance requirements and effects on system availability. 7. Maintain confidentiality with regard to the information being processed, stored or accessed by any hosts and network. 8. Document problems and resolutions. 9. Knowledge of HP Ignite, creation of golden images, maintaining server configuration, building new servers. 10. Designing and configuring HP Service Guard clusters. 11. Knowledge of Superdomes, configuration of Vpar’s. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS 1. At least 4+ years of professional HP-UX experience. 2. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 3. Ability to work over the phone regarding technical matters with support engineers 4. Knowledge of EMC Storage Arrays or HP XP is a plus. 5. Data Protector backup experience a plus. 6. Ability to learn and support new applications and technical competencies. 7. Responsibilities will require evening and weekend work in response to business requirements.




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Position: Sr. Buyer/Planner Uniondale, NY PHILJA1

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Sr. Buyer/Planner

Location: Uniondale, LI

Reports to: Operations Planning Director

Salary Range: 75-85k

Primary Function:

Responsible for the execution of the supply plan including production planning, material acquisition and inventory management for product lines assigned. Plans and issues purchase orders and work orders. Coordinates with other departments to achieve optimum utilization of facilities in meeting customer needs. Reports to management regarding performance metrics and problems such as shortages, changes, backlogs and the like

  • Execute the supply plan provided by the Master Production Scheduler. Runs and executes MRP to determine raw material and manufacturing requirements

  • Responsible for placing purchase orders for new and existing assigned production materials within authorized limits. Expedites purchase orders as required

  • Create work orders 3 weeks in advance to balance customer service needs, plant optimization, and inventory objectives. Ensure materials are available for production the week before production within agreed-to exception limits. Work with the Production Schedulers to provide input to the production schedule

  • Maintains favorable fill rates with an optimum inventory investment. Responsible for maximizing fill rates for customer orders for products assigned

  • Work with commodity managers to make sure using right vendors, and up to date on pricing, vendor capabilities and commodity issues

  • Monitor and maintain planning parameters including safety stock and order quantity
  • Provide training and guidance to planning clerks and new Buyer Planners.

Experience & Education:

  • Minimum of five(5) years experience in and knowledge of manufacturing activities including purchasing, materials, and production processes.

  • Minimum of four (4) years experience in procurement activities to include manufacturing and production processes or any combination of experience, education or training which would provide the level of knowledge, skill and ability required.

  • Bachelor degree or equivalent.

  • Familiarity with the APICS Body of Knowledge, CPIM preferredExperience in using MRPII, ERP or supply chain software preferably Manfact MPS, MRP, PO, and Parts master
  • Knowledge of a purchasing process, commodities, sources of supply, procurement laws, and regulations.
  • Strong knowledge of Access MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint skills.
  • Strong written and verbal skills, organizational, and multi-tasking abilities.
  • Detail and deadline orientation.

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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Financial Analyst - (US-NJ-Bridgewater)

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Financial Analyst - (US-NJ-Bridgewater)

Compensation:
$60K - $85K / Year
Min Education:
Bachelors
Job Type:
Full Time
Jobcode:
49562HJA

Experience Required : 3 - 5 years
Degree Required : 4 Year Degree

Job Description :
Researches, analyzes and documents moderate to complex financial analysis projects within assigned department. Prepares and analyzes operating and strategic plans, including quarterly forecasts. MUST have direct modeling experience in an insurance company. .
Provide financial and technical expertise on projects requiring highly complex financial analysis. Work on cross-functional teams with other departments, as appropriate.
Analyze the potential financial consequences of alternative business decisions relating to profit opportunities and significant capital expenditures.
Prepare analysis and interpretation of financial statements and related reports. Design complex worksheets and/or databases for tracking and reporting.
Review and guide work of less experienced personnel to verify accuracy of information used for financial analyses, using internal and external reports, other departments, and published data.

Incumbent should possess a Bachelors degree in finance, accounting, or mathematics. Minimum of four years proven financial and/or business analysis and planning.
Proficiency in Excel and Access required.
Direct modeling experience in an insurance company is a msut. Experience in acquisition pricing and familiarity with building database queries desirable.
Candidate Must Have :

* Excel and Access,
* AD-HOC would be a PLUS

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9 East 37 Street
New York, NY 10016

Assistant Business Unit Director - (US-OH-Cincinnati)

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Assistant Business Unit Director - (US-OH-Cincinnati)

Compensation:
$60K - $90K
Min Education:
Bachelors
Job Type:
Full Time
Jobcode:
24782BRNJA

Experience Required : 5 - 10 years
Degree Required : 4 Year Degree
Travel Required : Upto 25 %
The position is accountable for the credit and operational aspects of the leasing programs for an assigned vertical market. Closely monitor the business unit's performance against plan and address variances promptly and effectively. Key elements include response time (credit and docs), portfolio performance (delinquency and losses), customer (vendor, broker, sales, etc) satisfaction, first run yield, volume and price. Establish and maintain goals for effectiveness in application review, approval and booking. . Works in close cooperation with the functional specialist managers who lead primarily by persuasion and influence. Exercise significant credit authority within the duties of the position. Prepare and endorse credit decision and direct credit, doc, funding and exception waiver authority. Assist in business development by working with sales and senior management to ensure that clients needs are understood, considered and provided for within the parameters o fNC4 policy and sound business practice. Participate in sales meetings, trade shows, etc., to maintain awareness of market needs and competitive strategies.Primary responsibilities: Degree in business or related field or equivalent experience.Minimum of five years experience in equipment leasing/commercial credit in increasingly responsible positions.Previous supervisory experience.Ability to work proactively with strong initiative and process and organizational skills.Excellent oral and written communications skills with the ability to analyze issue and determine and implement effective solutions.Must possess excellent customer service, speaking, listening, presentation, motivational and team building skills.

Candidate Must Have :
* 5 years in equipment leasing/commercial credit
* Bachelors Degree in Business or related field or equivalent

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New York, NY 10016

Sr. Program Manager Accounting Practices - (US-NY-Somers)

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Sr. Program Manager Accounting Practices - (US-NY-Somers)

Compensation:
$130K - $160K / Year
Min Education:
Bachelors
Job Type:
Full Time
Jobcode:
B021150IJA

No. of Openings : 2
Experience Required : 5 - 10 years
Degree Required : 4 Year Degree
PAID RELOCATION
This position reports to the VP of Accounting Operations & Financial Reporting. Resource for company's global business and finance communities to help individuals make informed business decisions. Assist management in the structuring of transactions while transactions are still forming. Resource for global accounting community of over 1000 accountants on technical accounting matters. Decipher, digest, and summarize draft and new accounting pronouncements. Provide "headlights" to company's global business, finance, and accounting communities on new accounting rules and SEC direction. Formulate responses to accounting rule-making bodies regard- ing proposed accounting and reporting rules; Launch new proactive accounting and education programs within company; Participate in various special projects regarding large complex, one-time transactions. Major Field of Study:Accounting, BS or MS. CPA required; MBA not required. Innovative mindset (Level5 - Can give expert advice and lead others to perform) Analytical skills (Level5 - Can give expert advice and lead others to perform) Interpersonal skills; interact with more senior execs. Excellent verbal and written communication skills Candidate Must Have :

* CPA
* Big 4 Experience
* Exposure to public companies and SEC filings
* Meaningful experience in minimum 2 of: revenue recognition, derivatives acctg, lease acctg, M&S acctg, HR related acctg
* BS or MS in Accounting

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

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

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9 East 37 Street
New York, NY 10016

Sr. Program Manager Accounting Practices - (US-NY-Somers)

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From Jeff Altman: The Big Game Hunter

Sr. Program Manager Accounting Practices - (US-NY-Somers)

Compensation:
$80K - $120K
Min Education:
Bachelors
Job Type:
Full Time
Jobcode:
B021149IJA

No. of Openings : 2
Experience Required : 5 - 10 years
Degree Required : 4 Year Degree
Travel Required : None
PAID RELOCATION
Description This position reports to the VP of Accounting Operations & Financial Reporting. Resource for company's global business and finance communities to help individuals make informed business decisions. Assist management in the structuring of transactions while transactions are still forming. Resource for global accounting community of over 1000 accountants on technical accounting matters. Decipher, digest, and summarize draft and new accounting pronouncements. Provide "headlights" to company's global business, finance, and accounting communities on new accounting rules and SEC direction. Formulate responses to accounting rule-making bodies regard- ing proposed accounting and reporting rules; Launch new proactive accounting and education programs within company; Participate in various special projects regarding large complex, one-time transactions. Major Field of Study:Accounting, BS or MS. CPA required; MBA not required. Innovative mindset (Level5 - Can give expert advice and lead others to perform) Analytical skills (Level5 - Can give expert advice and lead others to perform) Interpersonal skills; interact with more senior execs (Level5 - Can give expert advice and lead others to perform) Excellent verbal and written communication skills (Level5 - Can give expert advice and lead others to perform) Impeccable integrity (Level5 - Can give expert advice and lead others to perform) Research for accuracy and strategy (Level5 - Can give expert advice and lead others to perform)

Candidate Must Have :
* CPA
* Big 4 Experience
* Exposure to public companies and SEC filings
* Meaningful experience in minimum 2 of: revenue recognition, derivatives acctg, lease acctg, M&S acctg, HR related acctg
* BS or MS in Accounting

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

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

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Concepts In Staffing
9 East 37 Street
New York, NY 10016