eFinancialCareers

• Company

  E. D. Starr & Company

• Location

  USA-NY-New York City

• Compensation

  Competitive

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  17 Nov 2009

• eFC Ref no

  568371

Manager Business Process Improvement

Our Client, a world leader in professional services and management consulting, is seeking an experienced and accomplished business process improvement professional to join their Financial Services Advisory Practice. The Financial Services Advisory  Practice is a specialty advisory practice that provides integrated risk management, business performance improvement, regulatory and global treasury advisory services to a prestigious group of financial institutions and other capital markets participants. This practice includes individuals who are industry and financial product specialists as well as operational control / operational risk, accounting, and regulatory professionals.

Managers direct project teams that advise clients on a variety of business process improvement and risk management issues to help identify, assess, manage, and measure the risk exposure and optimize processes within a variety of operational and financial areas in their organizations.

REQUIREMENTS: To deliver these comprehensive services, our Client is looking for individuals with 7+ years of relevant experience with either a major financial institution (bank, asset manager, broker/dealer, insurance company, hedge fund) or major professional services firm ( Big 4 ) with significant exposure in one or more of the following areas: 

• Capital Markets, Banking, Asset Management and Insurance industry processes and products
• Front, finance, middle office and back office processes and systems within financial services organizations (i.e., commercial banks, investment banks, broker-dealers, asset management, insurance)
• Regulatory/compliance concepts prevalent in banking, securities, insurance, and investment management activities
• Project and Program Management experience in the areas of strategic initiatives including process and control evaluation, audit / auditing /assurance, financial and management reporting, finance function improvement, enterprise cost reduction programs, or involvement in integration activities relating to mergers and acquisitions
• Strong knowledge demonstrated through experience in designing, operating and evaluating process controls (e.g. trading, clearance, and settlement, hedging, finance/accounting, risk management, etc.) for financial institutions, finance and operations areas. Knowledge of related control frameworks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated team work capabilities and leadership skills
• MBA and/or CPA preferred.

Qualified candidates are invited to forward their resume in confidence to:

Gene Starr

E. D. Starr & Company

40 Exchange Place

New York, New York 10005

E-Mail: gene.starr@edstarr.com

(212) 248-1692

E. D. Starr & Company is a full service executive search firm specializing in recruitment for management consulting and financial services for positions in credit risk management / credit portfolio management, market risk management, operational risk management, risk reporting, RAROC/RAPM/Basel II ( Risk Adjusted Return on Capital / Risk Adjusted Performance Measurement ), controls, treasury, capital markets, risk management technology and business process improvement / business process reengineering / enterprise wide risk management.