Systems Analyst

Strategic Investment Group provides full investment outsourcing services to institutional clients and taxable family groups, both domestic and offshore.  Strategic is a rapidly growing, entrepreneurial company that supports a progressive and creative environment. This position will support the operations and research functions of Strategic through the development and enhancement of proprietary financial applications including Performance Measurement and Risk Management systems, Trade and Portfolio Management systems and other applications.

 

This is an exciting position for the person with the right qualifications, drive and initiative to contribute in developing the capabilities of our systems development team. 

 

Please visit our website at www.strategicgroup.com to learn more about the firm.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (other duties may be assigned to meet business needs):Develop and maintain SIG financial and office support applications.Install, maintain and customize 3rd-party products.Support and administer ‘SQL Server’ and Visual FoxPro (VFP) databases.Work closely with Risk Management, Systems Development and Portfolio Administration managers to analyze user requirements, design and develop database WINDOWS/WEB applications.Work closely with IT group to accommodate and apply most recent IT innovations to SIG applications.

· Design and implement WINDOWS/WEB applications primarily in Visual FoxPro and SQL Server, create systems design and user manual documents and provide software project development management.

 

Qualifications/Requirements:

 BS degree (or higher) in computer science, management systems or related areas.3-6 years intensive experience with Windows database applications development and support.Good analytical and communications skills.2-5 years experience of programming with Visual FoxPro (version 8.0 required, version 9.0 a plus).Strong interpersonal skills, team-oriented and professional demeanor.Working experience and programming with SQL Server databases (SQL Server 2005 experience a plus).Knowledge and some working experience with .NET (C# and ASPX).Experience with Excel, PDF and e-mail automation from Visual FoxPro environment.Working experience with Visual MaxFrame (VMP 2000 is preferable).Experience with development and support of financial applications (performance measurement systems, portfolio management, risk management, trade and accounting systems) preferred but not required.