W.R. Rosato & Associates, LLC

39 Avenue at the Commons ~ Suite 206, Shrewsbury, NJ  07702-4587

(732) 380-1555 Cell~(732) 881-2672  Fax~(732) 380-1558   WRRINC@aol.com

Bill@WRRosato.com

W.R. Rosato & Associates is a recognized leader in placing Senior level talent to the top end of Wall Street. We are currently working on a variety of new positions within NYC. Please see below for a sample of our full time and consulting opportunities  

Full Time Opportunities

Murex Project Manager

Interest Rate Derivatives & Credit Derivatives

Front, Middle and Back Office

Our client seeks a Project Manager to oversee a staff of 7 supporting trading, risk, payments, confirms, collateral management and work flow as well as STP of derivatives. The position requires strong Murex experience, exceptional relationship management skills to all business units and the ability to complete projects to the satisfaction of IT and business needs.

“Systems Trader” on the desk

This IT department is responsible for development of projects and enhancements across Fixed Income business lines. The team develops both global and local applications with European development teams.  The team consists of three main development teams in both New York and Jersey City locations.

RESPONSIBILITIES: A senior front office developer/tech lead possesses strong experience in pricing, analytics, coding and design. It is critical that the individual has great coordination skills and expectation management capacity to engage and meet rapid front office type of dynamic demands, while maintaining software development and architecture design discipline.  Summary of responsibilities:
•  Development (rapid and long-term) of trading tools for structured credit derivatives desk.
•  Address any need of the trading desk which involves rapid intervention with strong technology capabilities.
•  Participate in short, middle, and long-term development with the New York and London development teams including trading, PnL and risk platform.
•  Collect and synthesize trading desk needs for New York & London development teams and participate in meetings to ensure needs are understood and correctly prioritized.
•  Production/Support of risk reports for the trading desk located in New York / London and ensure correct software maintenance of the reporting infrastructure
•  Participate in design of the new architecture in relation with our architect
•  Involve / facilitate analytics and model integration
•  Capability to lead other developers on dedicated projects
•  Writes technical specification
•  Develop and implement development and change management processes
•  Team up with support team on release management
•  Provides the 3rd level Support
•  Use the Agile methodology (unit test, automatic testing plan, software factory, continuous build).

Business SKILLS:
Required:
•  Seven-plus years of credit derivatives experience in synthetic CDOs and exotic credit derivatives
•  Four-plus years of ABS activity and CDO/CLO structuring/origination
•  Seven-plus years of financial product, pricing and analytics working experience in Fixed Income and Interest Rate / Credit derivatives.
•  Seven-plus years of experience of integrating financial model, providing risk analysis, development on risk sensitivities for derivatives and fixed income arena
Desired/Plus:  Familiar with Bloomberg, INTEX financial library

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Required: Five years of C#, .Net, SQL and XML
Desired:  C++, INTEX financial library

PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE:
Required:  Minimum of 7 years IT development experience in Capital Market trading, middle office, analytics / quant and risk.

EDUCATION:
Required:  Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering related field
Desired:  Degree in Finance or related filed a big plus

Consulting Opportunities

Sr. Developers

Our client is looking for Senior Front Office IT Rapid Application Development (RAD) developers. This position requires the candidate to work in a dynamic and exciting environment. The RAD team works for Front Office on the trading floor managing projects and random request. Main duties as follows:

•       Work with other developers and guide the design and development.
•       Manage multiple projects.
•       Hands on developer/lead: this position requires coding in multiple languages based on the current need.
•       Support and create existing risk and P&L systems/reports in C# including market data tools.
•       Support/develop new trading/pricing tools.
•       Be able to work in both Windows and Unix environments
•       Primary responsibility is to reverse engineer current trading system and enhance an existing C# based trading system.

•       Must have prior experience with Credit Risk
•       Investment Bank experience a must
•       Must have strong C# knowledge

Essential
•       3-5 years in C# Trading Systems experience
•       3-5 years of basic Oracle experience
•       SQL experience a must.
•       MS Excel/Access
•       Basic knowledge of Swaps, Swaptions, Options, listed and OTC
•       Masters Degree in Computer Science and/or Engineering.

Desirable
•       Unix
•       Multi-Threading
•       ASP.NET
•       Python
•       Java
•       MATLAB
•       OpenLink – Endur
•       Basic market data dependencies, yield curve construction, interpolation, discount factors and other valuation related concepts

•       Background in finance, Masters in Financial Engineering

Technical Business Analyst

Our client seeks a Mid-Level Front Office IT Rapid Application Development (RAD) business analyst:

Responsibilities:
•       Perform business analysis activities focused on Front Office and/or Risk areas.
•       Support and creates market data tools and feeds in Python, C# and Java
•       Support spreadsheet for Index Trading – must have knowledge of VBA/Excel
•       Willingness to learn new languages like AVS.
•       Possibly support/develop new trading/pricing tools.
•       Work in a fast and dynamic environment, will require to work early NY evening support

Essential
•       3-5 years in C#, Java or Python. Strong preference for Python and C#.
•       3-5 years of basic Oracle experience
•       3-5 Must have VBA experience
•       SQL experience a must.
•       MS Excel/Access
•       Degree in Computer Science
•       Proven ability to work under pressure

Desirable
•       Unix
•       Perl
•       Oracle experience a plus
•       OpenLink – Endur
•       Background in finance, Masters in Financial Engineering

Sr. Developer

Our client seeks Senior Front Office IT Rapid Application Development developer. The RAD team works for Front Office on the trading floor managing projects and random request. Main duties as follows:

•       Must be a strong C++, C#, Oracle developer
•       Work with other developers and guide the design and development.
•       Manage multiple projects.
•       Hands on developer/lead: this position requires coding in multiple languages based on the current need.
•       Support and create existing risk and P&L systems/reports in C# including market data tools.
•       Support/develop new trading/pricing tools.
•       Be able to work in both Windows and Unix environments
•       Primary responsibility is to reverse engineer current trading system and enhance an existing C# / C++ based trading system.

•       Investment Bank experience a must
•       Must have strong C++,C#, and Oracle knowledge
•       Ideal candidate should have C++ GUI experience

Essential
•       7 years of C++, C++ GUI experience needed
•       3-5 years in C# Trading Systems experience
•       3-5 years of basic Oracle experience
•       SQL experience a must.
•       MS Excel/Access
•       Basic knowledge of Swaps, Swaptions, Options, listed and OTC
•       Masters Degree in Computer Science and/or Engineering.

Desirable
•       Unix
•       Multi-Threading
•       ASP.NET
•       Python
•       Java
•       MATLAB
•       OpenLink – Endur
•       Basic market data dependencies, yield curve construction, interpolation, discount factors and other valuation related concepts

•       Background in finance, Masters in Financial Engineering

Testing Manager

• Our client seeks a testing manager who is responsible for identifying current state processes across product lines and evaluating the potential for synergies using their testing domain knowledge.

• Testing Manager will work on all levels of the organization to ensure a clear communication plan is implemented for functional testing services.

• Testing manager will be responsible to be a thought leader in the automation, environment management and Funding models for the Shared Testing Service.

• Testing Manager will work with Shared Testing Service Governance committee to document all services in the service catalogue and formulate an engagement strategy /process for the development teams to use

• Relationship building, communication, coordination and management of work stream SMEs and Bas.
• Assessments of processes, tools, and techniques used in the testing domain.
• Assist Testing Governance resources as necessary.

Qualifications:
- 5-10 years of Testing Manager experience in the financial services industry using a structured development life cycle. 

- Testing Manager with previous Transition experience from decentralized to shared testing service.
- Testing management experience in automation, environment and testing funding chargeback models.
- Understanding of testing as a discipline that is integrated in the development lifecycle.
- Experience with Testing Metrics Dashboards and Tools.
- Group facilitation skills, thought leadership and communication on multiple levels.

DESIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS:
- Organization change management experience.
- Familiarity with process of engineering and tools used.
- Familiarity with Products used for Quality Control of HPs Test Center.
- Prior experience with Metrics Dashboards.
- Some familiarity with Process improvement methodologies like 6-Sigma, TMMi, etc.
- Testing Manager for IT Application development in a major investment bank; requirements, designs, building and testing.

- Basic business understanding of our production environments and businesses.
- Experience in best practice environments.