Portfolio - Fund Accounting consultant

Financial client in Waltham, MA
Contract position

Candidates must be able to pass a background check including financial (no bankruptcy or bad debt), criminal, employment and education.


3-6 month contracts

Our client is looking for an Accounting expert, ideally in the fund accounting area. This consultant will be reconciling accounts and cleaning up transactions. (Security Master cleanup, data maintenance, downloading data and loading up data into Product Master, creating spreadsheet tools to help spot data discrepancies and cleanup, etc). The candidate should have experience working with a product master; researching classifications by utilizing systems such as Factset, Bloomberg, Morningstar, or Thompson. Beginner SQL skills (basic query functions) is a plus


Please contact Albert Barsoumian with qualified resumes via email at albert@collabstaff.com or via phone at 508-872-7402.

.NET Developer

Full time position at financial firm in Boston

POSITION SUMMARY

The Mid –Level Developer will be a member of the software development team. This position will help design and program web based business applications using ASP. Net and C#.


Key Responsibilities
• Responsible for reading an existing code base in order to analyze its behavior and make fixes or enhancements to it.
• Responsible for unit testing code
• Responsible for revising existing code without impacting its functional behavior.
• Responsible for basic use of a version control tool as well as a general understanding of software configuration management.
• Responsible for providing solutions to complex problems.
• Responsible for presenting designs to solutions to Solutions Architect
• Responsible for peer code reviews
• Responsible for creating technical documents
• Responsible for meeting project objectives on time.
• Responsible for effective communication and interaction with Project Teams


KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED
Technical Knowledge:
Must have some understanding/ Practical Usage of:
• Read Code: Understands how to analyze a code base.
• Write Code: Understands the fundamental constructs of object based programming.
o Basic syntax and semantics
o Variables, types, expressions, and assignment
o Conditional and iterative control structures
o Functions/Procedures Parameter Passing
o Error Handling
o Data Access

• Relational Database fundamentals
o Data Types
o Creating and Modifying database schema
o Basic and Advance Set Operations
- Data entry, updates and deletions
- Data retrieval, summarization and reporting
o Relationships and Joins
o Cursors, Triggers, Functions, Stored Procedures and Transactions
o Error Handling
o Data Modeling
• Web Services

Must have some understanding of:
• Software Design
o Structured Decomposition
o Patterns and Practices
o Algorithms
o Efficient Coding Techniques
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Use of Libraries and Frameworks
• Debugging
• Integrated Development Environments
• Version Control
• Manual/Automated Unit Testing
• Refactoring
Use of Build Automation


Technology Platform Specialty
• Microsoft C#
• HTML /Java Script/CSS/XML/XSLT
• .Net Framework 2.0/3.5
• Windows Communications Framework
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Team Foundation Server
• MS Build
• Visual Studio 2005/2008 IDE
• Windows Services
• Messaging/Microsoft Message Queue
• Internet Information Server (IIS) Basic Administration
• Windows Smart Client Programming
• Microsoft Silver Light
• Microsoft SQL Server Report Services
• Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services
• Microsoft Guidance Automation Toolkit
• Microsoft BizTalk 2006
• Windows Server 2003 Basic Administration
• Basic Data Modeling Tool
• Microsoft Visio

Business Knowledge
Investment Finance/Asset Management – Fixed Income
• Working Knowledge of Financial concepts
• Financial Entities and their data representation Company (Issuer), Security (Asset), Portfolio, and Holdings (Positions).
• Financial Instruments and their data representation; Equities, Bonds, Loans and CDS
• Financial Holdings and their data representation; Par, Market Value
• Articulation of Work Flow and Data Flow from investment recommendation, trade settlement, financial statements and reporting.

Training: • Strong leadership skills and experience



Please contact Albert Barsoumian with qualified resumes via email at albert@collabstaff.com or via phone at 508-872-7402.

Java contract

Java contract 6-12 months
Downtown Boston location

Candidate must come from an Agile development environment.

Our client is looking for a developer with solid Java Enterprise experience in multiple tier development environments. The person in this position will need to contribute to decisions regarding which frameworks will be utilized and will then participate in a very collaborative development environment that includes lots of peer code review. This is a very dynamic and innovative team and so the successful candidate will not only have solid technical skills and knowledge but will also need to be very creative in their approach and thought process. Client is currently on the Java EE 6 Platform so experience with this is highly desirable. Business domain knowledge in the Financial Services space would be a plus but not mandatory for this position.

Please contact Albert Barsoumian with qualified resumes via email at albert@collabstaff.com or via phone at 508-872-7402.

Financial BSA

This is a contract to hire position at a financial client in Waltham, MA.

-5-7 years of Business Systems Analysis experience required
-Meeting with business users, gathering requirements, writing functional specifications, testing end product
-BA on the full life cycle of a product required
-Financial services experience a big plus as is CRM experience
-Any Project Management experience will set a candidate ahead of others for consideration

Immediate interviews and candidate can start ASAP.


Please contact Albert Barsoumian with qualified resumes via email at albert@collabstaff.com or via phone at 508-872-7402.