The successful project / programme manager will be competent and highly regarded individual who has experience delivering projects in a range of scenarios for Capital Markets clients.

You will have the following experience:

• Successful delivery of Capital Markets software solutions (bespoke or packaged)
• Successful estimation and delivery of fixed price engagements for clients
• Expertise in one or more Capital Markets business areas and/or asset classes.

You will be prepared to work on the client’s site and work on a variety of projects of varying scale for that client.

In addition to project delivery work, the role may include the following:

• Pre-sales consulting, proposal development  and project estimations
• Mentoring and line management
• Technology consulting
• Business analysis and requirements gathering.

Qualifications:

•  Bachelors degree or similar
• Prince 2 or comparable project management methodology experience

Skills

• Client-facing consulting experience
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• People management, motivational and leadership skills

What we are looking for in you:

• Entrepreneurial spirit, personal and professional integrity and a desire to relentlessly strive to obtain excellence
• A team player with good interpersonal and communications skills
• High attention to detail and exceptional technical knowledge.

What we offer:

• A challenging and varied role in a Capital Markets consulting firm
• The ability to grow and attain levels of seniority within a growing company
• An above average salary with a generous, quarterly bonus package
• The chance to join a fun, energetic and dynamic team of people.

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The successful applicant will be a competent and highly regarded individual who enjoys a varied role and is able to build strong working relationships with traders and end users in a range of scenarios for Capital Markets clients.

You will be prepared to work on the client’s site and work on a variety of projects of varying scale for that client. You will be an expert in:

• Wintel and Unix server infrastructure
• Enterprise messaging middleware, including RV, EMS, MQ, MSMQ and other specialist middleware (e.g., 29West)
• High-availability infrastructures
• Grid computing and other CPU-intensive calculation infrastructure
• Market Data infrastructure: Reuters, Bloomberg, others
• Expert knowledge in multiple RDBMS vendor technologies (SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase)
• Trading Applications: eg, Fidessa, ION MarketView, others
• Advanced networking skills: LAN/WAN, TCP/IP, multicast
• Industry protocol experience: (e.g.: SWIFT, FIX)
• Datacentre and Virtualisation infrastructure (e.g.: SAN technology, SRDF, VMWare)
• Hands on experience as a DBA, SA, or similar, with experience in OS-specific script authoring.
• With top level communication skills you will be customer focused and be able to demonstrate high levels of expertise to clients. You will have demonstrable experience working as a software/infrastructure architect.
• Suitable candidates will have a background in investment banking/private banking/trading environments and will be used to dealing with the complex infrastructure requirements needed trading environments.

In addition to project work, the role may include the following:

• Mentoring and line management
• Technology consulting

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or similar

Skills

• Client-facing consulting experience
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• People management, motivational and leadership skills

Qualities we look for:

• Entrepreneurial spirit, personal and professional integrity and a desire to relentlessly strive to obtain excellence
• A team player
• High attention to detail and exceptional technical knowledge.

What we offer:

• A challenging and varied role in a Capital Markets consulting firm
• The ability to grow and attain levels of seniority within a growing company
• An above average salary with a generous, quarterly bonus package
• The chance to join a fun, energetic and dynamic team of people.

Apply now

The successful Market Data Specialist will have extensive experience within the financial / securities industry, working with Low Latency systems and applications such as RMDS, Wombat, Celoxica, Bloomberg BPIPE or other market data providers.

You will be able to build strong working relationships with traders and end users in a range of scenarios for Capital Markets clients.

Your prime responsibilities will be to support, implement and maintain Market Data platforms and connectivity for our clients.

You will be prepared to work on the client’s site and work on a variety of projects of varying scale for that client.

• UNIX and Linux
• Trading Applications; (Fidessa and/or GL Trade)
• Bloomberg, Reuters Dealing 3000, EBS Dealing, Bridge Telerate & Reuters Data Feeds
• Microsoft Active Directory
• Basic network skills; LAN/WAN, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX
• Development and maintenance of Shell Scripts within UNIX environments
• Perl Scripting
• Expertise in one or more Capital Markets business areas and/or asset classes.

You will ensure sub-millisecond speed, zero data loss and be able to deliver data in multiform conflated and non-conflated market data feeds according to our clients’ needs.
Suitable candidates will have a background in investment banking/private banking/trading environment and be used to dealing with the high level of customer service and fast-paced reactions required for a front office position.

In addition to project work, the role may include the following:

• Mentoring and line management
• Technology consulting

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or similar

Skills

• Client-facing consulting experience
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• People management, motivational and leadership skills

What we look for:

• Entrepreneurial spirit, personal and professional integrity and a desire to relentlessly strive to obtain excellence
• A team player with good interpersonal and communications skills
• High attention to detail and exceptional technical knowledge.

What we offer:

• A challenging and varied role in a Capital Markets consulting firm
• The ability to grow and attain levels of seniority within a growing company
• An above average salary with a generous, quarterly bonus package
• The chance to join a fun, energetic and dynamic team of people.

Apply now

The successful project manager will be competent and highly regarded individual who has experience of managing projects in a range of situations for financial services clients.

It is absolutely essential that this includes some experience of delivering bespoke software applications, and/or fixed price solutions and/or projects delivering solutions to investment banking arena.

You will be prepared to work on site (within the City) and work on a variety of complex and large scale applications.

You will have good product knowledge in one or more areas (derivatives, rates, credit, FX, equity) but with a particular experience with Fixed Income platforms.

The role will include the following:

•  Work with teams of other Project Managers, analysts and programmers as required
• Use structured tools and methods
• Assist with added value consulting services as well as technology solutions
• Pre-Sales and delivery role

Qualifications:

•  Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent
• Prince 2 project methodology framework is essential
• Client-facing consulting practices experience
• Training in risk management
• OOAD, UML and RUP

What we look for in you:

• Entrepreneurial spirit, personal and professional integrity and a desire to relentlessly strive to obtain excellence
• A team player with good interpersonal and communications skills
• High attention to detail and exceptional technical knowledge. You will need to profess as an expert
• Be able to work accurately without close supervision (at times under pressured conditions)

Apply now

• Client demands for specialist consultancy drives APAC expansion

Press Contact

Charlie Morrow
Cognito Europe
+44 (0)20 7438 1100
greyspark@cognitomedia.com

The successful C# .Net developer will be competent and highly regarded individual who has experience developing projects in a range of scenarios for Capital Markets clients.

You will have the following experience:

• C# and/or VB .Net and the .Net environment.
• Advanced OOP concepts, Design Patterns, Enterprise library and Software Engineering best practices.
• Development processes and methodologies (e.g., RUP / XP / UML).
• Technical team leader and/or architect in one or more projects.
• Expertise in one or more Capital Markets business areas and/or asset classes. derivatives, rates, credit, FX, equity)

You will be prepared to work on the client’s site and work on a variety of projects of varying scale for that client.

In addition to project delivery work, the role may include the following:

• Mentoring junior developers
• Actively participating in the skill development of your colleagues (workshops, presentations)
• Proposal development and project estimations

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent subject
• Microsoft .Net certifications or Brainbench certifications are a plus

Skills

• Client-facing consulting experience
• Multitier architecture and the technologies associated with it (.Net Remoting, Windows Communication Foundation, Web services, SOAP)
• Understanding of Multithreaded applications and .Net framework internals
• Relational Databases (MSSQL, Oracle) (queries, design and normalization)
• XML family technologies (e.g., XML Schemas / XSL / XPath)
• Unit Testing and mock objects
• Use and best practises for source control systems (CVS / SubVersion / Clear Case / TFS)

What we are looking for in you:

• Entrepreneurial spirit, personal and professional integrity and a desire to relentlessly strive to obtain excellence
• A team player with good interpersonal and communications skills
• High attention to detail and exceptional technical knowledge.

What we offer:

• A challenging and varied role in a Capital Markets consulting firm
• The ability to grow and attain levels of seniority within a growing company
• An above average salary with a generous, quarterly bonus package
• The chance to join a fun, energetic and dynamic team of people.

Apply now

The successful business analyst will be a competent and highly regarded individual who has experience analysing requirements in a range of scenarios for Capital Markets clients.

You will have the following experience:

• Proven experience in business and functional requirements gathering
• Experience of business case development
• Excellent data-handling experience including, but not limited to, advanced Excel, SQL and XML
• Experience of the full software development lifecycle, with experience in testing
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral
• Good business knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Cash Equities; Futures and Options; Fixed Income, Derivatives; Credit and Rates Products or Structured Products.
• Good knowledge of the front to back processing required in Capital Markets businesses.
• Experience of working in a team and aiding developers to produce a quality product.
• Quantitative skills (e.g.: NPV/IRR, Monte Carlo methods, Derivative pricing).

You will be prepared to work on the client’s site and work on a variety of projects of varying scale for that client.

In addition to project work, the role may include the following:

• Mentoring and line management
• Technology consulting

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or similar

Skills

• Client-facing consulting experience
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• People management, motivational and leadership skills

What we are looking for in you:

• Entrepreneurial spirit, personal and professional integrity and a desire to relentlessly strive to obtain excellence
• A team player with good interpersonal and communications skills
• High attention to detail and exceptional technical knowledge.

What we offer:

• A challenging and varied role in a Capital Markets consulting firm
• The ability to grow and attain levels of seniority within a growing company
• An above average salary with a generous, quarterly bonus package
• The chance to join a fun, energetic and dynamic team of people.

Apply now

• Latency is a challenge across asset classes
• Pursuit of speed yields a demand for latency measurement and reduction offerings

LONDON – 1st February 2012 – GreySpark Partners, the capital markets consultancy, has revealed that low latency requirements are no longer just the confine of the equity trading markets and that the need for speed is equal, if not greater, in other asset classes.

A new research paper entitled “Low Latency: Faster than Light”, shows that, in particular, FX, bonds and listed futures and options markets are benefitting from and demanding ultra-low latency trading platforms. The report indicates that since the advent of electronic exchanges in the mid-90s, the latency thresholds under which a trading platform must perform to stay competitive have been halving every three years, to reach levels of a few tens of milliseconds.

The report is an industry-wide analysis of low latency technology providers and strategies to reduce latency. Underpinned by interviews with providers of latency measurement tools and compounded by the professional experience of GreySpark consultants, this analysis evaluates 20 strategies designed to reduce latency. In approaching over 30 vendors GreySpark has analysed latency at the application, server and network levels.

According to the research, compiled by GreySpark’s dedicated research arm Capital Markets Intelligence, and published in cooperation with Best Execution magazine, latency, or “the total elapsed time between the event, or signal, triggering a trading decision and the actual completion of that trading action”, is generated at three levels in today’s electronic platforms. Firstly, in the applications that interpret financial information and make trading decisions (~65%); secondly in the middleware that distributes the various messages and signals (~25%); and thirdly in the network fabric that transports data from a market to the trading firm and then back to the market (the last ~10%).

“Speed has always been an intrinsic part of trading,” commented Frederic Ponzo, Managing Partner, GreySpark Partners. “Evolving from signal lanterns allowing a message to be transmitted from New York to the Philadelphia stock exchange in less than 30 minutes, to fibre optic cables with the ability to carry information around the globe in milliseconds in today’s financial markets, it remains crucial in retaining a competitive edge. We hope this report will shed some light on what the key actions are when reducing latency, and which strategies work”.

For further information and to purchase copies of the report, please visit: http://research.greyspark.com or email: research.reports@greyspark.com

Press Contact

Charlie Morrow
Cognito Europe
+44 (0)20 7438 1100
greyspark@cognitomedia.com

The successful Java Developer will be competent and highly regarded individual who has experience developing projects in a range of scenarios for Capital Markets clients.

You will have the following experience:

• Java/J2EE/J2SE.
• Advanced OOP concepts, Design Patterns, and Software Engineering best practices.
• Development processes and methodologies (e.g., RUP / XP / UML).
• Technical team leader and/or architect in one or more projects.
• Expertise in one or more Capital Markets business areas and/or asset classes.

You will be prepared to work on the client’s site and work on a variety of projects of varying scale for that client.

In addition to project delivery work, the role may include the following:

•  Mentoring junior developers
• Actively participating in the skill development of your colleagues (workshops, presentations)
• Proposal development  and project estimations

Qualifications:

•  Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent subject
• Sun certifications or Brainbench certifications are a plus
• Knowledge of a particular asset class is a plus

Skills

• Client-facing consulting experience
• Experience designing N-tiered applications, with multi-tier architecture
• CORBA/RMI, Web services, SOAP
• JSP, JDBC, Java Servlets, Javabeans/EJBs, ASP
• Understanding of Multithreaded applications and Java internals
• Strong relational database experience (DB2, Sybase, SQL, Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11i)
• XML family technologies (e.g., XML Schemas / XSL / XPath)
• Unit Testing and mock objects
• Use and best practises for source control systems (CVS / SubVersion / Clear Case)

What we are looking for in you:

• Entrepreneurial spirit, personal and professional integrity and a desire to relentlessly strive to obtain excellence
• A team player with good interpersonal and communications skills
• High attention to detail and exceptional technical knowledge

What we offer:

• A challenging and varied role in a Capital Markets consulting firm
• The ability to grow and attain levels of seniority within a growing company
• An above average salary with a generous, quarterly bonus package
• The chance to join a fun, energetic and dynamic team of people.

Apply now

The main emphasis in the media was on the operational complexity and regulatory uncertainty that the buy-side and sell-side will face during the reform of the OTC derivatives market. It is clear that market participants have little understanding around the number of central counter parties (CCPs) that will exist, and what the key changes to CCPs. Additionally,  increased operational costs associated with central clearing was highlighted as a key issues, particularly for the buy-side.

Clearly, on both sides of the capital markets, the impact will be felt. One notable change will be the cost of collateral. Whereas before you could net off exposure, with multiple CCPs, this won’t be possible,” he explains.

Keynote coverage appeared in the following outlets:

Euromoney
Hedge Funds Review
Operational Risk & Regulation
Structured Credit Investor