Senior Systems Analyst

Consultant, Systems Analysis About Our Firm:

Granite Solutions Groupe provides financial services decision makers with people and solutions that deliver. Our clients count on us to deliver the right talent at the right time to achieve critical business results. We leverage our industry knowledge and passion for client priorities to deliver human capital solutions.

GSG was founded in 1998 as a consulting firm delivering project management and technology solutions for the financial services industry. GSG now has a global presence, with team members deployed across the U.S. at Fortune 1000 companies and high-performing Fintech firms.

High-caliber consultants are the face of GSG at our client organizations and offices. We value the deep relationships we have with our consultants that enable us to place them in roles where their skills will have an immediate impact. The GSG consulting team is comprised of diverse, experienced, driven, and dynamic contributors who excel at getting things done.

GSG is seeking a Senior Systems Analyst to join our client’s Investor Engagement Support team. The Investor Engagement team plays a critical role in our client’s success by providing continuous support and solutions to the firm’s globally located investors across Equity, Fixed Income, Multi-asset, Alts and Hedge Funds.

There is an opportunity for a motivated Senior Systems Analyst who is proficient in the front and middle office functions of trade lifecycle management to play a key role in this large team. The consultant needs to have a support background working directly with investors and have a deep understanding of investment concepts across equities, fixed income and derivatives. Candidates need to be strong with SQL.

• Interact directly with investment professionals at all levels of the organization as a trusted advisor.
• Respond to functional, data, and technical questions related to our trade lifecycle management tools from end-users.
• Troubleshoot issues, determine root cause, and identify appropriate corrective actions for the trade lifecycle management tools.
• When necessary, manage production bridges to resolve significant systems and data issues.
• Provide clear verbal and written communication to both end-user and technical audiences, and be able to guide both users and developers to solutions.
• Ensure that service levels within this critical support area are maintained at a high level.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, Economics, Finance or a related subject.
• 5+ years business or systems analysis experience in global capital markets.
• Experience with CRD, Murex or other OMS platforms for real-time portfolio analytics, P&L and exposure is desirable.
• Experience with SQL is required.
• In-depth understanding of financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, swaps, options, futures, forwards, derivatives and FX.
• Experience with advanced investment data concepts such as holdings, transactions, security master, analytics, performance, and attribution.
• Hands-on experience working directly with investment professionals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High attention to detail and strong commitment to delivering quality, professional work is absolutely essential for this position.
• Willingness and ability to work independently and as part of a team, in a fast-paced, business-critical environment.

• Experience supporting investors – Proficient in the front and middle office functions of trade lifecycle management tools such as CRD. Prefer to see candidates that have experience working with order management tools, investment research tools, investment reporting, market data tools (e.g. Factset, Bloomberg) and the like.
• A strong understanding of holdings, exposures, risk measures, analytics, transactions, benchmarks, etc.
• Experience with Fixed Income and Derivatives.
• Strong SQL skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills as this person will be working directly with the users.
• Production support on a rotation basis requirement – once every 2 months and the consultant is expected to check the tests that are running and elevate or fix if need be.

• comprehensive medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage.
• company-paid life insurance.
• eligible commuter benefits-like paying for work-related public transit and parking with pre-tax dollars.
• pre-tax contributions that go directly into your 401K.
• pet insurance, discount card and prescriptions.

As a diverse-owned business, GSG is committed to creating a diverse workforce, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.