Thursday, April 21, 2011

Easter Blockbuster – Multiple Opportunities with a Global Bank Singapore

Are you in Singapore and interested to step into a Global Bank to build your career path?? Here are some of the newly created roles, 

1.       EDI Consultant – AVP/VP role – Require candidates with minimum of 8 years in EDI technology along with X12 formats, ISO standards, SDLC, ITIL processes, Swift, Oracle SQL. Knowledge in Financial Payment System is a plus.
2.       Technology Manager (Application Support) – Require candidates with 8 - 10 years industry experience, minimum 4 years in application support role including team management responsibilities with most or all of C/C++, Java, Application and Infrastructure architecture and midrange platforms/projects.
3.       Technical Business Analysts (5-12 years) – Payments/Cash Management. Require candidates with PMP/Six Sigma/Agile/Waterfall along with technical exposure on Oracle SQL, J2EE, .Net, MQ Series, SWIFT, WebServers is a plus.
4.       Technical Analysts (5-10 years) – Payment Messaging. Require candidates with Swift/IFX/XML experience along with MQ Series, IBM Websphere, Message Broker, SOA exposure.
5.       Integration Business Analysts (5-10 years) – End-to-End Payment Processing & Integration. Require candidates with strong exposure in Financial Payment system along with System Integration project exposure along with MQ Series, WebSphere Message Broker / Datapower XI50, Java J2EE, SOA, XML, SWIFT, Oracle SQL.
6.       Lead Developer (7-12 years) – Require candidates with technical development & architectural experience on MQ Series, WebSphere Message Broker / Datapower XI50, Java J2EE, SOA, XML, SWIFT, Oracle SQL.
7.       Business Analysts (5-12 years) – Reconciliation Products. Require candidates with intelliMATCH / Frontier / Smartstream / Checkfree product experience.
8.       Mainframe Analyst (4-7 years) – REXX, COBOL, DB2, JCL, CLIST, PROC, Changeman. Required candidates from development background.
9.       Senior Mainframe Support Analyst (5-8 years) – CICS, zOS. Required candidates from Support background.
10.   Business Management – VP role – Require candidates with 10+ years of working experience in Technology Infrastructure Operations and Delivery, Project Management, Finance Control, Budgeting, Audit, Compliance, Information Management with more than 5 years of working experience in the Financial Industry, preferably an Investment / Corporate Banking firm.

For more information / Job description, please visit: http://theperfectjobs.blogspot.com/

Candidate’s who are currently in SINGAPORE, Qualified and Interested can share their resumes to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com

Have a great holiday! Thanks! 

Technology Manager (Midrange Application Support) - Fortune Bank in Singapore


This role is within the Payments/Treasury technology team in Singapore. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing a team providing production support and maintenance of midrange applications across multiple technology platforms.

Experience required
§         8 - 10 years industry experience, minimum 3-4 years in application support role including team management responsibilities.
§         Minimum 4+ years experience of most or all of C/C++, Java, Application and Infrastructure architecture and midrange platforms.
§         Demonstrable experience of working to resolution complex issues involving multiple groups. Strong analytical skills required and should have a natural ability to research and resolve complex systems, application and user issues.
§         Proven leadership experience, ability to motivate teams and drive execution, with performance driven with the necessary intensity and optimism to succeed and deliver.
§         Must possess outstanding organizational skills, including ability to rearrange teams and radically re-engineer department processes.

The following would also be advantageous:
§         Understanding of Six Sigma and Enterprise Change Management Methodologies.
§         Experience with Agile / eXtreme Programming project methodology and development teams desirable.
§         Experience in treasury management or payments service platforms.
§         Experience of Real Time Problem Management
§         Experience of working in a large financial organisation.
§         Experience of project management

Responsibilities
§         Leverage in-depth midrange (Unix, Windows, VMS, C/C++, Java, Infrastructure) technical skills to resolve production and application issues – this is a hands-on technical production support role.
§         Apply deep technical insights and experience to inform, guide, challenge and support production issues, environmental failures and related management decisions.
§         Provide ad-hoc design, analysis and code fix support as part of the day to day support team for urgent business issues and enhancement work requests.
§         Participate in Real Time problem management conference calls and help to steer towards a swift resolution of issues.
§         Must be willing to go on overnight support (management escalation and technical support) + weekend support/management oversight responsibilities as required.
§         Must be able to manage production issues hands on – on specific platforms and applications where there are resource gaps.
§         Line management responsibilities of associates including performance management, associate development and feedback, talent planning and resource management, along with recruitment and augmentation of contractors as necessary.
§         Take accountability for applications including updating of application database with current information, and ensure business continuity tests are undertaken and supported.
§         Continually challenge the team and look for ways to improve system stability including monitoring opportunities, bug fixes, application changes
§         Produce regular, thorough and accurate team and production status reports tailored for the target audience - from technical project team member to Management. Participate in meetings with Management and provide appropriate input and feedback.
§         Ensure application changes are tracked, managed and follow the necessary project/change/compliance processes.
§         Responsible for performing and updating various tools and systems with audit, compliance and risk related routine administration and mandatory follow-ups.
§         Close liaison with change management, the business community, technical groups within the company globally and external vendors.

Candidate’s who are currently in Singapore, Qualified and Interested can send their resumes to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

AVP/VP role - EDI Consultant - Global Bank in Singapore

This role will provide EDI technology support for critical initiative efforts in the Asia Region.  In addition, this position will provide regional leadership for the EDI space to ensure the EDI strategies are implemented across the globe.

The Candidate must understand the business dynamics across Asia along with transaction banking.

Essential Skills
§         EDI Experience (Global EDI)
§         X12 formats
§         ISO 20/22 Standards
§         ITIL processes
§         XML
§         Informatica  (ETL – Power Center)
§         SWIFT
§         BETA-D Processing
§         Oracle
§         Midrange (Linux)
§         Technical Leadership experience
§         Information/data Management
§         SDLC experience within a large IT organization

Preferred Skills
§         Financial Payment System experience support and delivery
§         Local Clearing knowledge a plus

Responsibilities
This individual will work with business & technology partners from multiple lines of business to provide subject matter expertise and representation for integration and implementation elements of our global payments infrastructure across Asia. Working within a group of developers and architects and along side peer analysts focused on achieving the business transformation goals related to payment products across Asia. Will work closely with product developers and operational partners to capture business requirements, participate in high level designs and support implementation activities across a portfolio of initiatives. 

Candidate’s who are currently in Singapore, Qualified and Interested can send their resumes to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com

Friday, April 15, 2011

Opportunities to Work with Global Financial Institution in Singapore!

Payments & Cash Management
§         Senior Business Analysts (7-12 years) – Payments/Cash Management. Require candidates with PMP/Six Sigma/Agile/Waterfall along with technical exposure on Oracle SQL, J2EE, .Net, MQ Series, SWIFT, WebServers is a plus.
§         Technical Analyst (5-10 years) – Payment Messaging. Require candidates with Swift/IFX/XML experience along with MQ Series, IBM Websphere, Message Broker, SOA exposure.
§         Business Analysts (7-10 years) – End-to-End Payment Processing. Require candidates with strong exposure in Financial Payment system.

Business Management
Require candidates with 10+ years of working experience in Technology Infrastructure Operations and Delivery, Project Management, Finance Control, Budgeting, Audit, Compliance, Information Management with more than 5 years of working experience in the Financial Industry, preferably an Investment / Corporate Banking firm.

Reconciliation Management
Business Analysts (5-12 years) – Reconciliation Products. Require candidates with intelliMATCH / Frontier / Smartstream / Checkfree / Fiserv product experience.

Mainframes
§         Senior Analyst (4-7 years) – REXX, COBOL, DB2, JCL, CLIST, PROC, Changeman. Required candidates from development background.
§         Support Analyst (5-8 years) – CICS, zOS. Required candidates from Support background.

For more information / Job description, please visit: http://theperfectjobs.blogspot.com

Candidate’s who are currently in Singapore, Qualified and Interested; Send your resumes to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com

Thanks!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Technical Analyst - Payments Messaging (Swift/IFX/XML) - Newly Created role.

The Resource will be responsible for design and development of integration services within our integration framework on our strategic integration platforms. There will be a focus on GLOBAL solutions, thus must understand nuances of GLOBAL platforms. He will demonstrate sound understanding SDLC, SOA principles and of foundational infrastructure including MQ, HTTP and XML.

Employer: Global Financial Institution in Singapore
Job Type: Permanent
Work Location: Singapore
Role: Technical Analyst - Payments Messaging (Swift/IFX/XML)
Open Positions: 2

Responsibilities
§         Will work closely with change managers, business SME's, Architects and Developer teams.  Development will occur within an IBM infrastructure (WebSphere, MQ, WebSphere Integration Broker, Datapower XI50, Process Server, Java etc.) and include both service identification, integration design including message definition and process sequencing.
§         Business Requirements and use case analysis to determine the potential integration impact
§         Communicate and promote Request Processor/SOA integration strategy
§         Design/model integration (web) services within the Request Processor development framework
§         Production of ISD project and service deliverables (i.e. Integration matrix, high/low level design, Project Plan)
§         Manage integration specific work-streams from design to implementation
§         Primary ISD/IPSS representation to external and internal project teams
§         Facilitate and/or participate in reoccurring development, test and implementation checkpoints

Required Skills
§         SDLC experience within a large IT organization
§         Ability to document message flows, HLD and LLD documents
§         Payment message standards, SWIFT, IFX
§         XML
§         IBM Integration Stack (WMB, XI50, MQ)
§         Financial Payment System experience support and delivery
§         Distributed technologies including infrastructure and integration software
§         Knowledge/experience designing and managing the development of services within an integration platform

Desirable Skills
§         Local Clearing knowledge a plus
§         Web services modeling and XML (i.e. knowledge of WSDL, XSD)
§         Technical project management requiring the design and build of messaging based infrastructure (i.e. MQ series, HTTP load balancing)
§         IBM Websphere Message Broker, Datapower, MQ Series, Altova XML Spy
§         MS Project, Visio, Powerpoint
§         Experience w/ Waterfall and Agile development methodologies

Interested and Qualified Candidates can apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com.

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Business Analyst (Frontier/IntelliMatch/SmartStream) - AVP Role in Singapore

The Resource will work with the Global reconciliations Team along with the other Business and Technical analysts to analyze, design, validate, build, test, implement and document the project.

Essential
§         Proven experience of design & implementation of Reconciliation solutions in a enterprise Banking or Hedge Fund environment : Specific experience of Cash and Securities Reconciliation; Out of Proof management & resolution
§         Knowledge and Operational experience in a typical project lifecycle, including analysis and testing
§         Extensive knowledge (3+yrs) of an existing Reconciliations product. Ideally this should be Checkfree Recon+ / Frontier or Sungard intelliMATCH, but other product knowledge may be acceptable, including SmartStream

Preferred
§         A knowledge of basic reconciliation building (cash and stock), import formats, configuring match rules, reporting, ‘Recons’ etc would be an advantage, although some dedicated and more technical development staff will be available in the team
§         Operational experience in a Banking Operations Control department, or Control & Risk department. The role could easily suit someone from the business and operations side of reconciliations with experience of working with technology teams
§         Ability to SQL query the reconciliation databases would be useful

Responsibilities include but are not restricted to:

§         Working with the Global Recon Team, Risk and Integrity Team and end Business Users to deliver a comprehensive suite of reconciliations that meet the business’ need.
§         Assist with analysis around the existing recs and work with other team members to build, test and measure the improvements being planned
§         Document and obtain approval for the new rec designs and test plans from the relevant business and technology stakeholders
§         Work with the business, technology and the Risk and Integrity team to implement any Audit and Control related work relating to these reconciliations
§         Assist in development of Training and Migration packs for users

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Senior Business Analyst - Payments/Cash Management - Global Bank in Singapore.

The role of a Technical Business Analyst is to manage end-to-end application development initiatives from project planning, requirement analysis and measure, design and analysis, development, SIT / UAT and implementation on time and on budget.  The Technical Business Analyst should demonstrate strong experiences in vendor management and knowledge in Payment and Treasury Management domain.

Employer: Global Bank in Singapore
Job Type: Permanent
Work Location: Singapore
Role: Technical Business Analyst
Open Positions: 2

Requirement
8+ years Business analyst / Technical Project management experiences.
3+ years experience in Payment and Cash Management business domains.
Experienced in PMP methodologies, 6 Sigma, development methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile

Technical Skills
Knowledge in Oracle and MS SQL
Knowledge in Application and Web Server such as IIS, Apache, JBOSS, IBM Websphere
Knowledge in development tools, J2EE and .Net framework
Basic understanding of MQ
Knowledge of SWIFT is desirable
Infrastructure (hardware, networks, firewalls, databases)

Candidates who are in Singapore and available for F2F interviews would be preferred.

Interested and Qualified Candidates can apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com. Thanks!

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

The Perfect Job !!! on Twitter


VP Role with a Fortune Financial Institution in Singapore.

This role has emerged with one of our Fortune Financial Institution in Singapore to manages diverse functions for a large, complex department or for a complete line of business that is regional in scope, often requiring associates in one or more location.

Corporate Title: Vice President
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Singapore
Salary Budget: 150 – 180 K SGD per annum

Looking for a resource with 10+ years of working experience in Technology Infrastructure Operations and Delivery, Finance, Information Management, Project Management with more than 5 years of working experience in the Financial Industry, preferably an Investment / Corporate Banking firm

Responsibilities:
§         Functions managed may include: Financial Control / Budgeting and Consolidation, Processes, Audit / Compliance, Coordination of certain projects, Associate training, Service quality, Process improvement, Business continuity or communication.
§         Consults with senior management in evaluating current methods and developing strategies to implement changes and improvements.
§         Working knowledge of general bank policies, programs and procedures and financial/accounting practices.
§         Generally has full management responsibility over a relatively large team and may manage one or more levels of managers.

Candidates who are in Singapore and available for F2F interviews would be preferred.

Interested and Qualified Candidates can apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com. Thanks!

Friday, April 8, 2011

REXX/COBOL/DB2 - Senior Analyst - Perm role with a Global Bank in Singapore.

We have 2 open positions to be filled with one of our Global Banking client in Singapore.

The resource will be part of a Database administration team working to support datawarehouse of mainframe Metadata. The candidates will have the opportunity to do web development and also become DB2 DBAs. The candidates will be developing and maintaining ETL processes to build the data warehouse of Metadata from the mainframe environment such as JCL and proc libraries, source management tool changeman, db2 catalogs etc. In addition the candidates will be assisting the team lead in rewriting the web front-end to Dotnet from ASP technology.

Job Type: Permanent
Location: Singapore
Role: Senior Analyst
Years of Experience: 4 – 7 years

Relevant Skills:
§         3+ years of REXX/DB2 programming
§         3+ years of COBOL/DB2 programming
§         2+ years of IBM DB2 mainframe utilities.
§         2+ years of CLIST development
§         JCL, PROC and sort utilities.
§         Working knowledge of source management tool Changeman

Desirable Skills:
§         Understanding of Metadata and Metadata management a plus
§         Knowledge of web development with Microsoft Dotnet is a definite plus

Candidates who are in Singapore and available for F2F interviews would be preferred.

Interested and Qualified Candidates can share their resume along with their salary details to gopinath.karunamorthy@talent2.com

Thanks!