Do you want more than just another job? Are you ready to team up with an organization that values your contributions? Then Hired by Matrix is for you!
Working with some of the US’ premier companies, we excel at connecting candidates with positive cultures and dynamic teams. We even go the extra mile with our signature Consultant Appreciation Program (CAP) to help them in their future job searches.
Hired by Matrix has provided talent solutions to enhance organizations’ team capacities for over three decades. As a full-service search firm, we partner with companies across industries, including Financial Services, Fintech, Consumer Goods and Services, Security and Logistics, Pharmaceutical / Biotech, Technology, Automotive, Engineering, and Healthcare.
At-a-Glance:
Are you ready to build your career by joining a global financial company? If so, our client is hiring a Data Analyst!
What You'll Do:
- Build new and existing as part of newly formed business.
- Align with the business teams and rest of the teams in assessing business needs and transforming them into scalable applications.
- Work closely with quantitate modeling team and portfolio managers.
- Collaborate with business groups to define solutions to business needs.
- This includes eliciting, analyzing and documenting business requirements, identifying multiple approaches, making recommendations, and facilitating brainstorming and requirement walk-through sessions.
- Partner with the Technology team. Analyzing and documenting systems / report design requirements which can include technical specifications, pseudo code, database table design, diagramming business process flows; to validate that the system solution meets the business need.
- Conducting project related tests which include developing detailed test plans, test cases and expected results; conducting tests; evaluating and documenting results.
- Develop subject matter expertise on the trading, performance/attribution and risk analytics platforms.
- Provide on-going support and troubleshooting production and test issues to perform root cause analysis, reconciliations, recommending corrective action and leading the resolution efforts.
- Taking deep analytical dives on data while being able to conceptualize, synthesize and critically evaluate gathered information, and communicate findings and recommendations.
What You’ll Bring:
- Undergraduate (B.S.) degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or Information System is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Power BI, Power Apps and Power pages is a must.
- Strong data modelling skills and able to perform data cleaning, data processing and data analysis.
- Minimum of 10+ years' experience in the Financial Industry.
- Experience with Blackrock Aladdin is required.
- Previous experience with Bloomberg data is a big plus.
- Previous experience with reinsurance industry is a huge plus.
- In-depth understanding of various Fixed Income instruments and their analytics, characteristics, and benchmarks with proven knowledge of Derivatives and its processes is required.
- Must have highly developed analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skill sets. Position requires the ability to quickly trouble shoot issues and think outside the box.
- Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and connect the dots, as well as demonstrate drive, resourcefulness, and personal ownership of assignments.
- Ability to work independently is critical, as is the ability to work effectively in a diverse team environment and actively participate in assessing impact of requested changes on existing processes.
- Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and comfortable working with all levels of an organization's technology and business groups.
- Proficient with MS Excel, MS Word, MS Visio and PowerPoint.
- Prior experience with JIRA and Confluence is a plus.
- Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience is preferred.
- Must be highly proficient in data manipulation and writing SQL queries.
- Hands-on experience with any investment / trading system, or performance attribution system is a plus.
- Ability to manage small team or projects is highly desirable.
Position Type: Contract
Get in Touch:
We want to hear from you! If you think you’d be a good match, submit your resume and reach out to Trusha at 732-852-7117 to learn more.
Who We Are:
Since 1986, Hired by Matrix, Inc. has improved our candidates' lives with exciting job opportunities that provide outstanding career advancement. Hired by Matrix offers our contract professionals competitive salaries, benefits after 60 days, and a 401k option with a company match after one year. Hired by Matrix is an Equal Opportunity Employer and proud to be certified as both a Woman-Owned Business Enterprise and a Woman-Owned Small Business.
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