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Job Title:     Business Operations Advisory/Sr. Associates
Job Location:  NY: New York
Pay Rate:      Open
Job Length:    full time
Start Date:    2007-05-01

Company Name:  Mindstaff
Contact:       Recruiter
Phone:         212-709-8350
Fax:           email only

Description:   Our client's Financial Services Advisory (FSA) unit is a specialty advisory practice that provides integrated market, credit and operational risk management; operations improvement, business integration, and strategic cost management; and regulatory and treasury advisory services to financial institutions and other capital markets participants. FSA includes individuals who have industry, client and product knowledge as well as quantitative, regulatory, project management and technology professionals. Our teams work together to coordinate the delivery of risk management, regulatory and business performance services to a variety of clients, including commercial banks, investment banks, broker-dealers, asset managers, insurance and energy trading companies, and other organizations.

Their Business Operations Advisory Services practice helps clients better align their organizations operating infrastructures with their strategies. They have a broad range of capabilities to assist clients operational improvement, profitability management, finance function activities, and business integration. Their professionals focus on the assessment and redesign of business, risk, and control processes and the refinement of operating models. The goal is to support our clients efforts to make their business units more effective and efficient and, where required, provide services in connection with the remediation and mitigation of process risk. Our experience is also important to the analysis of specific business requirements for alignment with technology architecture, technology infrastructure design, and vendor selection decisions.

Working within multi-disciplined teams of professionals, the Senior participates fully in the identification of clients' goals, needs, and objectives.

Responsibilities      

Work with a team of individuals to provide client service directly to the CFO and Finance executives within world class financial institutions.

Advise clients on a variety of business process services that help identify, assess, manage and measure the risk exposure in organizations.  These may include: Finance Function Strategy (Execution and Alignment), Roles and Responsibility, and other Finance Risk and Control Process Improvement,

Research emerging industry trends, regulatory guidance, and best practices.

Critically analyze the policies, procedures, people, processes, and systems used by financial institutions to identify, assess, measure, monitor and control significant issues or risks.

Recommend modifications to client infrastructures to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes and risk management programs.

Design and implement quality, practical business approaches.
Assist with technology selection, architecture, and infrastructure design.

Requirements

To qualify, candidates must have:

-  a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related business discipline
-  3-5 years of relevant experience with front, middle or back-office processes and systems within a financial institution (i.e., commercial banks, investment banks, broker-dealers, asset management, insurance, etc.)
-  experience with the design, development and implementation of internal controls for financial services business processes a plus
-  basic understanding of accounting, regulatory and compliance concepts prevalent in banking and other financial institutions
-  strong written and verbal communication skills for report writing and client presentations
-  analytical skills; specifically, the ability to assess and decompose financial services industry processes utilizing a risk and control focus
-  effective leadership, project management and teamwork skills

Out-of-town travel, either domestically or internationally, is also required at least 30-50% of the time, on average.

please email all resumes to recruit@mindstaff.com for prompt consideration

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