Project Consultant recruitment
Job ID: 20241
Position Description:
SunGard's solutions for capital markets help banks, broker/dealers and futures commission merchants increase the efficiency and transparency of securities and derivatives processing. They also provide accounting, securities financing, data management and tax reporting across multiple platforms, asset classes and markets. Supporting the entire trade life-cycle from execution to settlement, SunGard provides centralized transactional databases that deliver consolidated views of positions and risk.
Duties and Responsibilities will be:-
• To liaise with client Business Analysts to identify and document client system requirements
• To analyse existing systems and data and to identify and understand client requirements, recognising and documenting where there is a need for systems enhancements or modifications
• To formulate detailed functional specifications with appropriate work effort estimations off the back of the client requirements
• To liaise with SunGard Product Developers Quantitative Analyst and assist with validation of development work on enhancements to risk methodologies and pricing models
• To provide clients with validation tools on the Adaptiv products functional processes and pricing, profit loss and risk calculations. This process will also involve the coding of customised functionality (Reech ADEP, C#, SQL, XML and Excel), mathematical risk calculations and the creation of ad-hoc SQL code for database manipulation and interrogation
• Occasional coding of new processes, file extracts and web pages; technologies used include Delphi, SQL, XML, C#, ASP.NET and javascript
• Troubleshooting of urgent client issues as and when required
• Provide enhancement advisory direction to staff in Core Development
• Provide advice on appropriate test plans/scripts to internal and client Testing teams.
Position Requirements:
To provide professional implementation consultancy services to the SunGard Adaptiv client base with regard to Adaptiv products. Your specialist area will be market and credit risk management and you will be working on implementation projects as a project consultant. You will also provide a level of consultancy support to our existing market risk and credit risk client base. Your tasks will also include distilling the customer's business requirements, writing specifications, liaising with SunGard development and Product Management as well as other SunGard teams. You will also play a key advisory role in the development and testing of core product enhancements.