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Treasury Senor Business Consultant – PS

Location: New York
Apply To: careers@wallstreetsystems.com

Wall Street Systems (Wallstreet) provides functionally rich, integrated and scalable solutions for improved workflow, control and overall productivity for corporate treasury, bank treasury, central banking, FX trading and global back office operations. Wallstreet is the market leader in FX trade processing and through its award-winning products, including Wallstreet Suite, Wallstreet Treasury, Wallstreet FX and Wallstreet BackOffice, the company processes millions of transactions, aggregating to trillions of dollars, every day.

With a 20 year heritage, Wallstreet has an outstanding reputation for quality and responsive service, and prides itself on helping its clients achieve long lasting benefits and results. Its 500 employees service over 300 banking, corporate and central bank clients, operating out of 12 offices worldwide. The company is a privately held corporation, and is majority owned by Warburg Pincus, a global private equity investor.

Job Description

The senior consultant analyzes customer requirements for highly specialized financial systems, implements software functionality that meets these requirements, and manages functional specifications for customer specific development items. This role is to provide specific expertise and support for the implementation of Pricing, FAS133, Trade Modelling and Risk functionality on client projects.

This position requires a firm understanding all aspect of Debt, Derivative and Foreign Exchange pricing, risk, back office operations and Accounting. The consultant will liaise directly with front office, middle office and back office staff of the client and must have the interpersonal skills required to interact with all levels of management within the organization.

Training and mentoring other consultants is a key element of the role. This individual will also have a responsibility for sharing his/her specialist knowledge across departments and functions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Providing accurate and considered analysis of front office and business issues along with appropriate solutions to meet the client’s requirements.
  • Providing advice on all aspects of clearance, Settlement and Accounting processes.
  • Creation of Business Requirements and Functional Specifications as part of any customization process including planning, documentation and execution of supporting test cases.
  • Configuration of the Application to accurately represent the clients business and meet their functional requirements
  • Assistance to plan, perform and document testing of new and existing functionality to defined specifications/ requirements.
  • Provide creative and practical front office, middle office and back office solutions to facilitate improved client processes and smooth project implementation
  • Deliver quality training to clients enhancing company Education Services brand
  • Support pre-sales, scoping and requirement definition programmes

Required Experience

  • 10 or more years experience in the financial industry, ideally working in a large corporate, financial institution, application vendor or a consulting practice
  • At least 5 years of implementing systems, preferably in industry related software environment
  • Experience and understanding of options pricing models (Black Shoals, Hull & White, Etc)
  • Proven experience of delivering presentations and proven documentation skills in defining business processes and solutions.
  • A proven track record in project work
  • Thorough understanding of treasury functions within a corporate treasury.

Required Skills and Knowledge

  • Strong understanding of all financial products including:
    • FX (Swaps, Forwards, Spot, Options)
    • Money Market (Cash, Paper issuance)
    • Interest Rate Derivatives (including Swaps, Caps/Floors, Swaptions, and FRAs)
    • Fixed Income (Bullet and amortizing bonds, MBS, ABS, CP)
    • Structure Products
  • Extensive knowledge of pricing models of Financial Instruments across corporate and financial markets.
  • Solid understanding of capital markets
  • Experience in working with and configuring Treasury Management systems.
  • Excellent analytical and communication (verbal and written) skills
  • Good customer relationship and interpersonal skills
  • Deep knowledge of financial industry, instruments and market processes
  • An enthusiasm for taking responsibility and a passion for knowledge
  • A self-motivated and hard working individual who is goal orientated, able to work with minimal supervision and is a key contributor to the team.
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, and to identify and resolve project issues quickly and effectively.
  • Fluent in English both spoken and written.
  • Must be willing to travel extensively

Wall Street is an equal opportunity employer. At Wall Street Systems, we prohibit any type of discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, sex, or national origin and value diversity of all types.