Product Engineer / Business Analyst

Overview:

OpEff is a fintech firm specializing in software solutions for investment management firms including hedge funds, private equity firms, real estate funds and venture capital funds. OpEff's flagship product, Perfona, is a state of the art cloud based system leveraging next generation technologies and agile development methodologies to provide our clients the most innovative portfolio operations platform. Our firm has an opening for a Product Engineer that would be responsible for servicing our hedge fund and private equity clients and for providing them with software implementation, report development and consulting services. Interest in financial markets, stocks, bonds and quantitative and statistical mathematics is important.

Requirements:

• Degree in accounting, finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, computer science or a related field in engineering

• Top grades: GPA above or around 3.5

• Strong aptitude for math and interest in capital markets finance - stocks, fixed income etc.

• Strong communication skills – a must have

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills - ability to analyze and solve product issues

• Knowledge of accounting, data analysis, Excel, VBA and/or scripting languages like JavaScript, Python, Perl or Selenium

• Good understanding for financial products and financial accounting is a big plus

• Must be flexible, independent problem solver and a team player

• Professional experience as a programmer or financial systems analyst is a plus

• Candidacy for the CFA levels or other financial certification is a huge plus

Responsibilities:

• Implement our financial product for our clients and analyze their data and systems, load data into the product, reconcile and manage full implementation life cycle.

• Work with clients to understand their reporting or development needs

• Reconcile data between systems when converting clients from a legacy system to a new system ensuring that data migration is accurate

• Proficiently produce professional Excel reports using pivot table and Excel formula. Whenever necessary, use scripting languages to automate implementation processes and tasks

• Work with business users to analyze current systems and propose solutions and workflows to bring operational efficiencies

• Implement technology solutions including accounting, portfolio management, trade execution and middle office

• Work with development using agile development methods and participate in scrum and sprint sessions

• Interact with members of the IT and development team and communicate current status and coordinate upcoming development activities

• Project management including scheduling, milestone tracking, risk management and project status reporting