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Financial Reporting and Workflow Engineer
QED Financial Services, Inc., North America’s leading provider of investment accounting systems for institutional investors, is inviting experienced and talented investment industry professionals with strong programming skills to apply for a Financial Reporting and Workflow Engineer position at QED’s headquarters in the metro Philadelphia area.
Candidates for this position will demonstrate experience with reporting architectures, including data management, report and analysis development, web server interfaces, and information delivery methods. Candidates must be proactive and resourceful business technology professionals who have experience in the Financial Services sector.
You will be working predominantly with Institutional Investors and experience in this area is desirable. As a member of our professional services team, you will leverage your business knowledge and your reporting and data management skills to help us deliver new software functionality to our clients. In this role, you will work with teams comprised from both QED business units and client organizations. Therefore, your ability to listen, communicate, and articulate is as essential as your understanding of technologies relating to the investment industry.
As a Financial Reporting and Workflow Engineer, you will:
- Design and implement reporting solutions for our new and existing client base.
- Use QED’s proprietary report writing language and third party software tools to build custom reports.
- Work with clients to develop report requirement definitions and develop supporting data structures for new reports.
- Facilitate delivery of customized reports per client requests through the creation of technical and functional specifications, which involves:
- analyzing the client's reporting needs
- working with the client to gather requirements and state the specifications
- working with QED team members to develop the solution and present the statement of work
- designing, coding, and testing the reports
- delivering and implementing the reporting product for the client
- Interact with functional analysts, DBAs, and other developers to define and implement the best technical design to support business requirements.
- Present layout, formatting, and design recommendations, including various delivery methods.
- Prepare technical design documentation to support code development.
- Execute code development and unit test.
Requirements
To be considered for a Financial Reporting and Workflow Engineer position, you must meet the following requirements:
- Experience in the investment management industry is strongly preferred.
- Experience preparing financial analysis and investment accounting reports is strongly preferred.
- A desire to learn a proprietary reporting language is required.
- Minimum three years of progressive experience with report development, preferably in Java applications.
- Minimum three years experience with SQL, PL/SQL, and at least one database programming language is required.
- Strong technical skills and experience with programming languages such as Visual BASIC or C is preferred.
- Previous experience with Crystal Reports, BRIO, Cognos, JasperSoft, or Microsoft Reporting Services is desired.
- Knowledge of web technologies including Java, JSP, HTML, CSS and XML is preferred.
- Functional and technical understanding of UNIX required. (Microsoft Windows acceptable).
- Ability to function in both individual and team-oriented environments is required.
- Ability to assess, state, and respond to a client’s reporting needs is required.
- Ability to self-prioritize workload and identify when assistance is required.
- Ability to rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals is required.
- Ability to understand and derive relationships of information systems to business functions preferred.
- Strong communication and organization skills required.
- Previous experience at SunGard Financial, Advent, Princeton Financial, or Eagle Investment Systems is a plus.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
If you enjoy working with a knowledgeable and success-oriented company that respects and challenges its team members, and you are confident that you want to accept the responsibilities as our financial report and workflow engineer, then send your resume today.
This is a full time, salaried staff position with QED Financial Systems, Inc. A competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package includes health benefits, dental benefits, and 401(k) w/match.
Client Support Representatives
QED Financial Systems, Inc. (www.QEDFinancialSystems.com), a leading provider of portfolio management and investment accounting software and services, is seeking client support representatives.
As a Client Support Representative, you will:
- Provide customer support to various clients on QED Financial Systems software, via phone and e-mail.
- Diagnose support issues and submit detailed documentation on software defects or enhancements.
- Identify and assist clients with business-related issues.
- Provide timely turnaround to client inquiries.
- Help in training clients on the use of Q2.
- Assist project managers in completing time sensitive projects on an as needed basis.
- Assist Client Support team in creating Quality Assurance testing protocol and procedures.
Requirements
To be considered for a client support representative position, you must meet the following requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or equivalent work experience.
- 3 to 5 years of investment/securities accounting and financial services.
- Strong PC skills are required including Excel and Word.
- Must have the ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
- Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
Senior Implementation Project Manager
QED Financial Systems, Inc. (www.QEDFinancialSystems.com), a leading provider of portfolio management and investment accounting software and services, is seeking a Senior Project Manager.
As a Senior Project Manager, you will:
- Oversee implementation, conversion, and custom development projects for QED clients.
- Determine project scope and requirements.
- Define project-related deliverables, schedules, resources, budgets, and tasks.
- Communicate with all levels of QED and client staffs to keep interested parties abreast of project statuses, issues, and modifications.
- Conduct project kickoff meetings and regularly scheduled project team meetings.
- Create detailed project plans, specifications documents, requirement documents, and design documents.
- Visit client facilities to meet with project stakeholders.
- Act as the main point of contact for resolving all project-related issues, problems, and change.
- Learn all operational aspects of QED software and stay abreast of all system updates.
- Assist sales, implementation, and client services teams with presentations, sales calls, planning meetings, and other tasks as necessary.
Requirements
To be considered for the Senior Project Manager position, you must meet the following requirements:
- Degree in related field.
- At least 3 years of experience in portfolio management, investment accounting, securities operations, or a related field. Must have a thorough understanding of investment management and securities operations concepts.
- At least 4 years of experience in managing small, medium, and large software implementation projects, preferably within the securities industry.
- Experience using portfolio management and/or investment accounting software.
- Demonstrated ability in problem solving, process improvement, and business re-engineering.
- Strong verbal communication, written communication, and presentation skills.
- Skilled in team building and interaction with other team members to collect, analyze, and verify information.
- Skilled in the use of project planning tools, such as Microsoft Project.
20-30% travel is required for this position.
Quantitative Financial Analyst
QED Information Systems, Inc. ( www.qedfinancialsystems.com ), a leading provider of portfolio management and investment accounting software and services, is seeking a Quantitative Financial Engineer.
As a Quantitative Financial Analyst, you will:
- Manage a staff of four to six developers.
- Lead efforts to establish formalized platform and product development.
- Integrate third party analytics and mathematical models.
- Create system framework and develop code for new instruments including derivatives and hybrid derivatives.
- Work with senior management, to analyze and assess current development initiatives and recommend platform enhancements.
- Learn all operational aspects of QED software and stay abreast of all technology and market analytics.
- Evaluate third party analytics software for possible integration to QED applications.
- Assist with development of training programs and related courseware, including guides, manuals, presentations, etc.
- Facilitate internal and external technical training courses at client sites and at QED headquarters in Marlton, NJ.
- Assist sales, implementation, and client services teams with presentations, sales calls and other tasks as necessary.
To be considered for the position of Quantitative Financial Analyst, you must meet the following requirements:
- Advanced degree in Financial Engineering, Engineering/Physics, or Applied Mathematics.
- Knowledge of Credit Models & Methods such as, Copula models, deterministic models, grid conversion, multiperiod simulation models, asymptotic saddlepoint methods, twisted Monte Carlo simulations, and Dourier/Laplace transformation.
- Knowledge of Foreign Exchange and Equity Models, including ensemble model, BS basket model, discrete dividends, stochastic volatility, lattice/trinomial trees/simulation.
- Knowledge of Fixed Income Models including, generic tree n-factor models, dimensionality reduction, single and multi factor Hull-White, Brace-Catarek-Musiela and shifted BGM, Composit FX 3-factor model.
- Minimum of 3 years experience working in middle-office, front or risk management function in the investment and asset management arenas.
- Strong knowledge of derivatives: Fixed Income, Equity, Interest Rate Derivatives, FX and CC Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, Risk/Sensitivity Analysis.
- Strong knowledge of financial engineering: Models in the BS framework, Monte Carlo techniques, Numerical methods, Stochastic processes.
- Knowledge of risk management techniques: VaR analysis (Analytical, Historical, simulation based), and Credit Exposure.
- MS Office Suite, C/C++ Unix, Databases, and utility tools.
Accountant / Senior Accountant
We are seeking motivated Senior Accountants to join our team responsible for delivering excellent client service in the area of investment portfolio accounting for our clients. You will also be performing month-end accounting and reporting for our clients in accordance with specified reporting timetables/deadlines. The Portfolio Accountant will be responsible for the accurate and timely reconciliation of client investment portfolios, utilizing the automated reconciliation process for most of the accounts. The qualified candidate will be responsible for the maintenance of client investment portfolio records in the Company's proprietary accounting system. The Portfolio Accountant will also provide financial information to management by compiling, researching, and analyzing data. The qualified candidate will be able to demonstrate the necessary leadership skills required to supervise a staff of 3 – 4.
If you are interested in learning more about the investment industry and would enjoy the opportunity to deliver excellent client service while working in a collaborative team-oriented environment, then we are interested in hearing from you.
Responsibilities include:
- Preparing schedules or reports as requested by clients, tax agencies and external auditors
- Reconciliation of investment portfolio accounts through validation of accounting records and review of client statements
- Participating in the income and expense reconciliation process to ensure transactions and account positions are complete and accurate
- Reviewing and resolving investment portfolio share and position differences
- Leading or participating in system enhancement, process improvement, and other department projects
- Identifying, assessing and proposing changes in accounting procedures arising from regulatory change
- Assist in the design, development and execution of internal reporting controls and new reporting requirements
- Complete daily cash reconciliations
- Perform periodic transaction and holdings reconciliation (Daily, Weekly, Monthly).
- Research and resolve exceptions utilizing various sources including Bloomberg
- Communicate with custodial banks for timely resolution of discrepancies
- Research and resolve discrepancies including corporate action entitlements
- Monitor pay-downs, coupon rates and payments
- Monitor flows and average monthly STIF rates
- Complete month-end closing reviews and activities
- Prepare special reports as required
- Perform comparison analysis for specific accounts
Requirements
- Must have Bachelor's Degree in finance or accounting
- CPA preferred
- 5-7 years experience in period end reporting and accounting in a financial services environment
- • Extensive knowledge of general ledger preferred
- Project and project management experience
- Extensive knowledge of portfolio performance standards and composites and indices
- Knowledge of treasury and financial instruments
- Knowledge and experience in derivative instruments across equity, fixed interest, treasury and capital markets is desirable
- Knowledge and expertise with Microsoft Office
- Detailed knowledge and experience in domestic and international Fixed Income and Equity trading workflows
- Firm understanding of Fixed Income securities, especially Asset Backed securities
- Strong understanding of domestic and international derivative strategies and analytics preferred
- Experience with US and non-US securities and market structures
- Working knowledge of risk management and compliance standards preferred
- Strong financial analytical skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Both domestic and international travel may be required Please send your resume and salary requirements to:
Human Resources
QED Financial Systems, Inc.
10,000 Sagemore Drive
Marlton, New Jersey 08053
Tel: 856.797.1200
Fax: 856.797.9719
humanresources@QEDFinancialSystems.com
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