Some may have seen the recent drop in silver and gold, seemingly out of the blue. Here is an article that sheds a little light on the subject.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Operations Control Manager
Good day,
I'm with BCI, and I was curious if you or someone from your professional network might be interested in this opportunity:
Job Order:
DM0566-010-511
Title:
Operations Control Manager
Location:
Chicago, IL
Summary:
This position will be responsible for issues related to internal
operations control and liaison with external and internal groups.
Additionally the position will serve as a resource for the operations
team and be responsible for development and review of policies and
procedures. The individual in this position will also work on special
projects and be the department's point of contact for external/internal
audit teams.
Responsibilities:
Review operations errors and facilitate the creation/maintenance of policies/procedures for Operations
Review projects for process automation and recommend appropriate tools/systems
Identify training needs and research, develop, and recommend training programs to meet business needs
Follow up on customer complaints and provide regular reporting on operations performance
Establish quality standards and create/manage systems to ensure process improvements and product and innovations
Work with all departments to ensure effective controls are in place
with regards to position reporting - identification and resolution of
inaccurate reporting.
Represent Operations in meetings with regulators/auditors on operations related issues
Follow up on outstanding audit items
Work with department heads to establish performance measurements and strong operations controls
Experience:
Bachelors Degree in Finance, Business or related major.
10 + years of progressive industry experience
Project management experience
Working knowledge of back office systems, GMI, Opics, RTA, etc.
Ability to assess/elicit technical information from external vendors and internal IT on behalf of operations
Extensive experience interfacing with clients and servicing customer needs
Ability to gather, analyze and assess data and recommend alternative solutions
Ability to develop reasonable recommendation considering resources, priorities and needs
Ability to assess client’s need relative to available projects and services
Compensation:
Commensurate with experience.
If you are interested in this opening, please email us a copy of your resume as an MS Word attachment.
Thank you,
Brooke Akins
BCI - Financial Services Recruiting
(312) 460-8222 x103
brooke@brokerageconsultants.
www.bcius.com
I'm with BCI, and I was curious if you or someone from your professional network might be interested in this opportunity:
Job Order:
DM0566-010-511
Title:
Operations Control Manager
Location:
Chicago, IL
Summary:
This position will be responsible for issues related to internal
operations control and liaison with external and internal groups.
Additionally the position will serve as a resource for the operations
team and be responsible for development and review of policies and
procedures. The individual in this position will also work on special
projects and be the department's point of contact for external/internal
audit teams.
Responsibilities:
Review operations errors and facilitate the creation/maintenance of policies/procedures for Operations
Review projects for process automation and recommend appropriate tools/systems
Identify training needs and research, develop, and recommend training programs to meet business needs
Follow up on customer complaints and provide regular reporting on operations performance
Establish quality standards and create/manage systems to ensure process improvements and product and innovations
Work with all departments to ensure effective controls are in place
with regards to position reporting - identification and resolution of
inaccurate reporting.
Represent Operations in meetings with regulators/auditors on operations related issues
Follow up on outstanding audit items
Work with department heads to establish performance measurements and strong operations controls
Experience:
Bachelors Degree in Finance, Business or related major.
10 + years of progressive industry experience
Project management experience
Working knowledge of back office systems, GMI, Opics, RTA, etc.
Ability to assess/elicit technical information from external vendors and internal IT on behalf of operations
Extensive experience interfacing with clients and servicing customer needs
Ability to gather, analyze and assess data and recommend alternative solutions
Ability to develop reasonable recommendation considering resources, priorities and needs
Ability to assess client’s need relative to available projects and services
Compensation:
Commensurate with experience.
If you are interested in this opening, please email us a copy of your resume as an MS Word attachment.
Thank you,
Brooke Akins
BCI - Financial Services Recruiting
(312) 460-8222 x103
brooke@brokerageconsultants.
www.bcius.com
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Financial Job Opening
Good day,
I'm with BCI, and I was curious if you or someone from your professional network might be interested in this opportunity:
Job Order:
DM0440-007-511
Title:
Risk Analyst
Location:
Midwest
Summary:
Diversified Financial Services firm seeks a Risk Analyst to join their
Investment Risk Management department. This person will be part of a
team responsible for asset analytics/modeling, attribution of value
changes, and economic capital calculations.
Responsibilities:
Actively contribute to projects involving the move to market value accounting
Develop analytic models to help explain volatilities of asset values
Provide attribution/sensitivity analyses for the sources of gain and loss under an economic framework
Work with Financial Reporting/Investment Accounting/Investment
System/Corporate Risk to develop these processes and move them to
regular, quality-controlled production as needed
Working knowledge/understanding of fixed income instruments, derivatives and the term structure of interest rates
General understanding of investment accounting helpful
Possess programming expertise in VBA and SQL
Analyze the sensitivities of the assets towards different market factors
Responsible for quantifying/analyzing/
Experience:
Demonstrated ability to develop creative solutions to analytical problems, making use of spreadsheets, databases, and graphics
Strong mathematical skills/working knowledge as they relate to modeling/valuation of fixed income instruments and/or derivatives
Understanding of investments and related risk measures, particularly interest rate risk/credit risk
Ability to perform research through the use of internal/external information resources
Understanding of Investment Accounting very helpful
Able to clearly present information through the spoken or written word; compose well-written coherent documents
Able to challenge conventional practices; adapt established methods for
new uses; pursue ongoing system improvement; play with concepts and
ideas to create novel solutions to problems; evaluate new technology as
potential solutions to existing problems
Degree in financial engineering, economics, mathematics, actuarial science, computer science, or a related field
MBA and/or CFA designation encouraged
Knowledge of financial quantitative tools strongly preferred
Possess a good business understanding of investments and the ability to use quantitative techniques
Compensation:
Commensurate with experience.
If you are interested in this opening, please email us a copy of your resume as an MS Word attachment.
Thank you,
Brooke Akins
BCI - Financial Services Recruiting
(312) 460-8222 x102
brooke@brokerageconsultants.
www.bcius.com
I'm with BCI, and I was curious if you or someone from your professional network might be interested in this opportunity:
Job Order:
DM0440-007-511
Title:
Risk Analyst
Location:
Midwest
Summary:
Diversified Financial Services firm seeks a Risk Analyst to join their
Investment Risk Management department. This person will be part of a
team responsible for asset analytics/modeling, attribution of value
changes, and economic capital calculations.
Responsibilities:
Actively contribute to projects involving the move to market value accounting
Develop analytic models to help explain volatilities of asset values
Provide attribution/sensitivity analyses for the sources of gain and loss under an economic framework
Work with Financial Reporting/Investment Accounting/Investment
System/Corporate Risk to develop these processes and move them to
regular, quality-controlled production as needed
Working knowledge/understanding of fixed income instruments, derivatives and the term structure of interest rates
General understanding of investment accounting helpful
Possess programming expertise in VBA and SQL
Analyze the sensitivities of the assets towards different market factors
Responsible for quantifying/analyzing/
Experience:
Demonstrated ability to develop creative solutions to analytical problems, making use of spreadsheets, databases, and graphics
Strong mathematical skills/working knowledge as they relate to modeling/valuation of fixed income instruments and/or derivatives
Understanding of investments and related risk measures, particularly interest rate risk/credit risk
Ability to perform research through the use of internal/external information resources
Understanding of Investment Accounting very helpful
Able to clearly present information through the spoken or written word; compose well-written coherent documents
Able to challenge conventional practices; adapt established methods for
new uses; pursue ongoing system improvement; play with concepts and
ideas to create novel solutions to problems; evaluate new technology as
potential solutions to existing problems
Degree in financial engineering, economics, mathematics, actuarial science, computer science, or a related field
MBA and/or CFA designation encouraged
Knowledge of financial quantitative tools strongly preferred
Possess a good business understanding of investments and the ability to use quantitative techniques
Compensation:
Commensurate with experience.
If you are interested in this opening, please email us a copy of your resume as an MS Word attachment.
Thank you,
Brooke Akins
BCI - Financial Services Recruiting
(312) 460-8222 x102
brooke@brokerageconsultants.
www.bcius.com
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Here's an example of how to replace government
From http://www.slate.com/id/2196328/
USA Today leads with a look at how environmental groups and big businesses are filling a void left by the government by directly cutting "unprecedented deals"
that involve trade-offs between new development and conservation. The
deals permit businesses to carry out new projects, such as oil drilling
or the construction of new power plants, without worrying about
opposition from environmental groups. In exchange, companies often
agree to preserve undeveloped land or to adhere to strict environmental
standards. "These private deals are a pragmatic way to accomplish good
things," an environmental lawyer explained.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
"Lost" blog from the Cranky Manager
And I thought losing a hard disk crash would cause data loss. Not with GoogleDesktop !! Honestly, I'm relieved not to have to run this locally.
It's cool, it's fun, and immediate feedback. I showed her how to abbreviate so she doesn't need to type the whole words
repeat 4 [fd 100 rt 90]
And she was off to the races. In her first session, she wrote her name in block letters. What a girl!
The Cranky Manager
Tuesday, 20.05.08
Amen to that!
12:33:52 - 
Saturday, 19.04.08
ML74289 Master Lock set your own combo
Inspired
by a complete lack of success searching for a solution to my problem
with a new master lock bike lock, I thought I'd post my results into
the blogosphere to help out anybody else who googles problems with this
lock.
You follow the instructions and still can't program a new combo other than the default 0000 ? The trick is to take a ballpoint pen to the special program button, not just
push it with your finger. You'll hear a "click" to know it stuck, then
select your new 4-digit code and proceed per the instructions.
Wednesday, 23.01.08
FriendFeed - the latest!
Monday, 23.07.07
My almost-daily commute
I finally put together my bike route that I take to work as often as weather and health allow. It's also a cool pedometer that uses google maps technology.
Tuesday, 27.06.06
Teaching Programming
I've introduced my daughter to Logo, the programming language for controlling a "turtle" and drawing objects, like geometric shapes. An example might help:
to draw a square
forward 100 right 90 forward 100 right 90 forward 100 right 90 forward 100 right 90
or, more simply,
repeat 4 [forward 100 right 90]
It's cool, it's fun, and immediate feedback. I showed her how to abbreviate so she doesn't need to type the whole words
repeat 4 [fd 100 rt 90]
And she was off to the races. In her first session, she wrote her name in block letters. What a girl!
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Monday, July 28, 2008
MCP61SM2MA AM2 uATX Motherboard Chipset NVIDIA® GeForce® 6100 (MCP61S ) Realtek ALC662 audio Realtek 10/100 Mbps Ethernet LAN Video NVIDIA® GeForce® 6100
I got a new computer from bestbuy for $250 to replace the p.o.s. dell I'd gotten used (and free) from my old workplace. It came with Vista which wouldn't run quicken2006 so I installed XP. But XP had no idea what my video card was and the nvidia drivers refused to acknowledge any nvidia hardware. Until I downloaded version 175.19 of the drivers (of about 1000 other versions), that is, which fixed it completely. File was named 175.19_geforce_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe and available from nvidia website.
Hoping this helps somebody else.
Hoping this helps somebody else.
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