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Position Title – WR742141042015

Senior Systems Analyst – Compliance – Latent Zero – SQL – Java – FS - Boston, MA Area – Excellent Package

Excellent Compensation Package – Base + Bonus + PS – Local Candidates Only

Company

Large, successful, and growing Boston based Investment Management Firm – Great Company – Lots of Upside – Outstanding Compensation Package – Bonus – Profit Sharing etc. Join a team oriented, collaborative, results focused environment and become part of an elite organization with great growth possibilities.

Position Summary:

My client’s Legal and Compliance Support team is seeking a systems analyst to join the team supporting their Legal, Regulatory, and, Investment Compliance IT functions. The team provides a high level of automation and tools to ensure the Firm remains in compliance with all client-mandated, regulatory, investment, trading, personnel, and, other restrictions. Qualified applicants must possess a strong knowledge of technology, investment, and financial services. Candidates must also possess excellent communication skills, be self-motivated, willing to work in an energetic, fast-paced and team-oriented group. The ability to manage multiple priorities is required. This position requires some partial early, late and weekend shift coverage.

Responsibilities:

Daily activities and responsibilities for this role include, but are not limited to:

· Answering Investment, Trading, and, Regulatory Compliance systems questions in an expeditious manner

· Interacting with Compliance analysts and managers directly, providing answers to their queries and helping resolve production issues as they arise

· Monitoring application health, escalating issues, facilitating incident bridges

· Support of technology located on the firm’s Compliance desks

· Strong sense of ownership to see issues or tasks from start-to-finish

· Show initiative in attempting to tackle problems creatively and self-sufficiently

· Researching reported problems. Generating story level enhancements or bug defects via existing technical tools and process methods.

· Partnering with firm-wide technology analysts, developers and QA staff in researching problems

· Development of self -service tools, applications and reports for end users

· Operational readiness and rollout of new versions of applications

· Test new technology and vendor interfaces into the firm’s applications

· Strong motivation and ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment supporting business critical applications

· Some project management responsibilities

· Ability to multi-task project/enhancement work along with support related activities

· Contribute to the development of internal and external documentation and processes

· Appropriately escalate or seek collaboration when needed

Required Skills and Competencies:

· BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

· Minimum of 3 to 5 years’ experience supporting or working with Financial Systems and/or Compliance Applications

· Must have very strong SQL skills

· Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills

· Client-oriented

· Familiarity with Pre-trade, Trading, and compliance systems

· Experience with LatentZero Sentinel would be very desirable (front-end and back-end)

· Experience with Java, Spring, Hibernate desirable

· Knowledge of Relational Database Systems

· Proven ability to learn and tie business concepts to application workflows and back-end database and table designs

· Coding and executing SQL scripts

· Experience with Oracle PL/SQL Stored Procedures

· Reading System and event Log Files

· Experience searching through application code to find source of issues

· Experience handling application and schedule failures

Keys to this Position:

1) Domain: Compliance knowledge is our first choice. We will also look at candidates that have Front Office Investment or Trading knowledge. Knowledge of Latent Zero is highly desired.

2) This role is more Support than traditional Systems Analysis, therefore the role involves answering Investment, Trading, and, Regulatory Compliance systems questions and interacting with Compliance analysts and managers directly, providing answers to their queries and helping resolve production issues as they arise.

3) Technical: Must be able to query the database with SQL. The ability to code (ideally with Java) is highly desired.

4) Excellent communication skills are required

5) Candidates may have worked for any Buy side, Sell side or Custodian shop (i.e. Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, State Street, etc.). Also may have worked for a shop that used Compliance or LatentZero Sentinel (which is a Compliance tool) – Shops like Putnam, GMO, SSGA, Pyramis, Dodge and Cox, GE, Income Research & Management, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, UBS, Leith Wheeler, & DuPont.