Jewish Information Technology: [itroundtable] Fwd: Production Support Specialist - New York City, NY. No Corp to Corp. This is a contract for up to 18 months.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

[itroundtable] Fwd: Production Support Specialist - New York City, NY. No Corp to Corp. This is a contract for up to 18 months.

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From: Clifton Jadoo <clifton.jadoo@axelon.com>
Date: April 30, 2014 at 4:38:27 PM EDT
To: lkleyman@yahoo.com
Subject: Production Support Specialist - New York City, NY. No Corp to Corp. This is a contract for up to 18 months.

04/30/14 12:34 PM
Hello,
My name is Clifton and I'm a recruiter at Axelon Services Corporation. We have your resume on file and I thought you may be interested in an opportunity we currently have available for a Production Support Specialist with a major financial company located in New York City, NY. No Corp to Corp. This is a contract for up to 18 months.
Please review the job description below. If you are qualified and interested in pursuing this opportunity, please call me at (212) 384-6508 ASAP. You may also send me an e-mail, if you do respond via e-mail please include a daytime phone number so I can reach you. In considering candidates, time is of the essence, so please respond ASAP.
If you do not feel like you are a good fit, but you know someone, perhaps junior to you, who is looking for a temporary assignment without a heavy skill set required, please feel free to forward this email onto them. I also encourage you to visit our website at www.axelon.com for all of our job openings.
This is a role on a business aligned global production support team for a strategic risk application. The role will focus on support of data quality initiatives and project work. This role/position requires a highly motivated individual with ability to work in a dynamic high pressure environment. Strong soft-skills, flexibility, ability to learn and adapt to changes are required. This production support analyst will interact and support both technology, development, and business individuals therefore sound understanding of finance and investment bank operations are key.

Job Responsibilities:
Part of a global support team supporting a risk application
Ability to keep schedule, make tight deadlines, work timely and independently. The expectation is that this person will require day to day operations keeping the system healthy
Manage projects, create reports on user calls, escalate when items are not addressed (this is a critical day to day task)
Provide business application data quality analysis
Timely and accurate user notifications and escalations.
Ability to prioritize and engage management in situations when prioritization is a challenge
Provide the access to application as required by following the standards and procedures
Be able to lead a meeting and know all parts of a meeting

Qualifications:

Mandatory Skill:
*Knowledge of risk sensitivities
*Knowledge or experience with trading products in capital markets: Knowledge of: Fixed Income Modeling. Pricing derivative products like Futures, Options, Indexes, CDS, CDO, FRAs, SWAPs, SWAPTIONs, CAPs/FLOORs. Knowledge of Financial Risk Management: Credit Risk Model, Value at Risk. Knowledge of Interest Rates, Credit spreads, bond pricing, etc.
*Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
*Excellent project and time management skills
*Strong technical skills including experience using MS Office, SQL, Visual Basic, Linux;
*Experience handling large amounts of data
*Strong analytical skills
*Strong knowledge of credit risk
*5-10 yrs of Production Support/BA experience in a financial institution
*Must be able to work with cross-functional teams.
*Optimize and bring in efficiency overall.
*Strong Follow up skills
*Ability to work independently and proactively

Preferred skills:
*Masters Degree in Finance, Economics or Financial Quantitative Analysis
*Knowledge of ITIL

Note: Please allow me to reiterate that I chose to contact you either because your resume had been posted to one of the internet job sites to which we subscribe, or you had previously submitted your resume to Axelon. I assumed that you are either looking for a new employment opportunity, or you are interested in investigating the current job market.If you are not currently seeking employment, or if you would prefer I contact you at some later date, please indicate your date of availability so that I may honor your request. In any event, I respectfully recommend you continue to avail yourself to the employment options and job market information we provide with our e-mail notices.
Thank you,
Clifton Jadoo

Axelon Services Corporation
44 Wall Street 18th Floor
New York, NY 10005
Phone: (212) 384-6508 or (877) 711-8700
Fax : (212) 306-0191
clifton.jadoo@axelon.com

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