Key Responsibilities:

• Work with application providers to define integration points. This includes service boundary definition, service lifecycle and usage, specific integration specifications for that service – down to WSDL and implemented services.
• Implement all necessary third party B2B connectivity between systems (e.g. AAA, asset management, product catalog, billing platform)
• Participate in architectural and design sessions to ensure the intent and integrity of the ESB architecture is maintained as it is extended and enhanced with changes to and additional integrations. Ensure that business rules and workflows are implemented appropriately within the Tibco architecture and that integrations meet with the original guiding principles of the architecture.
• The ideal candidate has experience not just as a developer (mostly data mapping and possibly installing and configuring COTS adapters (Commercial Packages like Siebel, Remedy, etc.), but also has experience installing and configuring the TIBCO product itself from an operational perspective (design of the clustering solution, name space design, operational linkages to a network / operations management / monitoring system, etc..)
• Basic understanding of Tibco with regard to high availability / clustering / load balancing and an ability to maintain and troubleshoot an existing implementation of the above environment in development, test and production environments.

Qualifications:

• This is a ‘hands-on’ development role.
• 3+ years’ recent hands-on technical experience including a minimum of 2 years experience with Tibco BusinessWorks 5.x version. *** This is a must have!****
• Experience with any or all of the following additional Tibco products:
• EMS 4.4
• Administrator 5.4
• ADB Adapter 5.3
• File Adapter 5.5
• Hawk 4.7
• XML Canon 3.1
• Experience in design and implementation of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
• SOA (service oriented architecture) expertise in design and implementation
• In depth experience with Java/J2EE development including experience with servlets, JSPs, EJBs, JDBC and SQL
• Experience in both start-ups and consolidated companies preferred. Ideally, the candidate has experience with Application Service Providers and has worked with virtual teams, diverse cultures and off-shore organizational models.
• Experience deploying leading best practices and methodologies.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Business Administration or other equivalent experience.
• Ability to work in a fasted paced environment while maintaining view on the strategic direction and being as detailed as needed. Willing and able to get down in the details “to make things happen”.
• Strong interpersonal and consultative communication skills with well-developed presentation skills

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: www.htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

•Oversee biweekly payroll processes to ensure timeliness and accuracy of employee paychecks and year end W-2s.

•Supervise payroll department staff and operations to ensure proper training, coaching, developing, and evaluating employees in support of company growth.

•Review and approve the work product and activities of the Payroll team to ensure all payroll activities are performed according to company policies, implementing appropriate checks, balances, audit trails, and trending analysis where required.

•Manage all payroll and employee benefit general ledger accounts, to include account reconciliations and monthly accruals.

•Ensure timely and accurate preparation of all payroll operations and work closely with the Human Resources department to ensure that payroll actions are in conformance with employment and benefits practices and accounting procedures.

•Compiling and filing required reports as well as responsible for year-end close, year-end reporting, and coordinating with ADP on processing of W-2’s.

•Handling and supporting audits, audit requests and maintaining appropriate controls and documentation for SOX compliance.

•Continuously assess the payroll systems and processes for gaps and inefficiencies and develop recommendations for improvements as necessary to ensure accurate and efficient processing in a highly controlled environment.

•Performs other related duties as deemed necessary.

•Remain abreast of developments in the payroll field by pursuing a program of self-development, participating in professional organizations, interacting with peers, reviewing pertinent literature, etc.

•Maintain the validity and integrity of payroll system data and ensure all payroll transactions are in compliance with Federal, State, and local laws, as well as company policy.

•Respond to payroll inquiries from internal customers and outside agencies and provide information or direction as needed.

Skills:

•Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required.

•National Payroll certification is highly desirable. CPP preferred.

•Minimum of 5 years experience in running a payroll department for a company with 300+employees (both exempt and non-exempt) in multi-state environment.

•Extensive knowledge in federal/state tax and labor laws.

•ADP and/or PeopleSoft Time and Labor highly desired.

•Proficient in MS Office (Word, Outlook, Excel, etc.)

•Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

•Demonstrated supervisory and other interpersonal skills desirable.

This is a full-time role that requires a local candidate and permanent or U. S. citizenship visa status.  If qualified, please email your resume to lnesslar@htassociates.com and call our offices today! Ask for Lauren to be considered for this opening. I look forward to hearing from you.

Job Requirements:

1. 5 to 8 years of corporate/general ledger accounting experience

2. Financial Reporting /public experience required

3. Bachelor’s degree in accounting

4. CPA or CPA Candidate

5. Strong grasp of GAAP Standards

6. Experience with Microsoft Office with intermediate experience in Excel and experience with Access a plus, a willingness and ability to adapt to various computer systems

7. Knowledge of internal control policies and procedures

8. Strong written and verbal communication skills

Job Responsibilities:

Primary Role – Applies basic and advanced accounting theories and concepts.

1. Assist in monthly financial statement preparation including income statement, balance sheet and cash flows and analysis of any significant fluctuations in Ledger accounts

2. Maintain Access database for lease payments and ensure its accuracy and compliance with relevant accounting pronouncements

3. Manage various accounts of the General Ledger

4. Assist in the development and maintenance of company accounting procedures as necessary

To apply, email your resume in Word to lnesslar@htassociates.com to be considered.  Let me know how and when to reach you in your cover message.  If you are not interested, please email this opportunity to your network.  Thanks!

This is an exceptional opportunity to join a publicly traded company as a Financial Accountant at my client’s corporate headquarters. The successful candidate will report to the Financial Reporting Manager and will assist primarily in the preparation of the company’s SEC filings, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K.

Primary Responsibilities

Assist in the preparation of quarterly and annual SEC filings (Forms 10-Q and 10-K).

Responsible for the assistance in the compilation of financial statements, the related footnotes, and various other components of the filings

Assist in the filing of various Form 8-K events.

Prepare audited financial statements and footnotes of certain employee benefit plans.

Work with external auditors as it relates to matters pertaining to external financial reporting.

Assist in Financial Reporting’s compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404.

Perform a variety of ad hoc assignments and projects, some of which may extend beyond the typical responsibilities of Financial Reporting.

Required Experience and Degrees

Bachelors Degree in Accounting

2 to 7 years of experience in public accounting and/or a publicly held company

CPA REQUIRED

Prior SEC experience a plus

Required Skills

Ability to work well with other professionals to achieve top-quality results

Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines

Good written and verbal communication skills

Positive attitude a must

To apply, email your resume in Word to lnesslar@htassociates.com for consideration.  Let me know in your cover message how and when to reach you to let you know your status.  Thanks!

This person will be responsible for managing a small team of 2 highly skilled and experienced application architects and will be the Subject Matter Expert for the IBM Datastage tool. While the team is strong technically, they lacked the ETL (DataStage) component so this position will need to bring a high level of expertise/knowledge in that area. While this position will function as a Sr. Manager & will be one level removed from a Director, this person must still be strong technically with the DataStage product. Experience will need to include design, architecture, integration & support. Support will include response issues, crash issues, integration issues and analysis around why these issues happen.

In addition to managing the group and having a strong technical acumen, this person will also be responsible for defining the strategy, creating the vision, establishing this team as the Center of Excellence for the organization with respect to the tools they are managing. This position will also have a strong customer facing component as this person will need to engage with other teams that are responsible for configuring the tools to support their customers so excellent comm. Skills will be needed as well as a strong business knowledge.

Technical & Functional Responsibilities

• Manage all GIP/ETL and AIP/EAI platform-level activities; to include administration, maintenance, security, and optimization
• Work with integration developers as appropriate, define and roll out platform-level: Support Model, Services (e.g. design reviews, code reviews, etc.), Best Practices, Component Repository and re-use strategy, Operational Dashboards, and Change Control Processes
• Define and help roll out GIP/ETL & AIP/EAI components of a new Enterprise Platforms “Console” for platform-level real-time monitoring & operational performance trend reporting
• Create and maintain documentation detailing GIP/ETL & AIP/EAI platform-level activities
• Provide 3rd level ETL & EAI support
• Continually evaluate latest tools and technologies and make appropriate and timely recommendations
• Evaluate and coordinate roll-out of ETL & EAI Centers of Excellence and User Groups
• Maintain vendor relationships and manage Vendor SLAs

General Responsibilities:

• Manage large or multiple teams, demonstrate solid technical knowledge, demonstrate strong business knowledge, require limited direction, give significant direction, handle highly complex problems, posses extensive knowledge of policies, standards and procedures, have strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Provide direct supervision including mentoring, performance management and staffing decisions for a large team or multiple teams.
• Set team, group or service objectives.
• Participate in development of the IT vision. Responsible for translating the vision into short and long term goals and deliverables.
• Determine and manage priorities, timelines and schedules.
• Interact regularly with customers to understand their business and to anticipate the needed IT. Manage business relationships.
• Review multiple team, group or service deliverables to ensure quality (design walk-through, test results, etc.) and adherence to processes, standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Manage or actively participate in the budget process.
• Participate in the research, analysis, selection, and implementation of new tools, technologies and/or services.
• Develop, gather and measure relevant productivity metrics.
• Manage or participate on projects as required.

Job Requirements

Technical Qualifications:

• Strong data & application integration-related technical analytic skills
• Extensive knowledge of SOA and web services implementations
• Advanced skills in relational database concepts and SQL based information extraction
• Good understanding of ETL & EAI-dependant technologies, including: JVM memory and thread management models, MS Windows, UNIX, Oracle, SQL Server, AS400/DB2, JDBC, Unix shell scripts, and enterprise network and messaging systems
• Experience serving as 1st level contact for all platform maintenance/support issues
• Familiarity with JD Edwards ERP (World and/or Enterprise1) and Siebel CRM is a plus

Functional Qualifications:

• 10+ years of broad systems experience including 3+ years of leadership.
• Minimum 5 years experience serving as chief architect and administrator for a global ETL platform deployment (IBM DataStage v8.x preferred), to include: project set-up, security, software installations, configuration updates and troubleshooting environment
• Hands-on experience analyzing ETL environments for capacity and performance related issues, and taking steps necessary to resolve
• Minimum 2 years ETL development team/project experience
• Hands-on experience providing architecture guidance and support and a global EAI platform deployment – IBM WebSphere EAI tools preferred (WESB, WTX, WPG, WBM, WSRR)
• Minimum 2 years EAI development team/project experience
• Broad / full life cycle application development experience
• Multi-server installation and load balancer experience preferred
• Experience in Business Analysis, Requirements Gathering and Designing Integration Frameworks
• Project Management experience with PMP Certification a plus
• Experience with dimensional modeling is a plus

General Qualifications:

• 4 year degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• Ability to coordinate and aggressively follow up on incidents and problems, perform diagnoses, and provide resolution to minimize service interruption
• Ability to manage and execute multiple projects and tasks concurrently
• Financial and budget experience required
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Effective organizational skills
• Strong team player
• Conscientious, hard working and self-reliant individual
• Excellent leadership skills; ability to act as a role model and mentor for team members and project development resources

Percent Travel Required 5%

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
My Profile - www.bryanhearn.com
Other Job Openings: www.htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

For this Chicago-based firm, will report to the CIO within an organization founded in 1900. The environment is primarily Windows, Exchange, Active Directory, VOIP and Cisco based with VMware and highly virtualized.

Technology Director – Operations

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage all aspects of the firm’s computer operations area
• Work closely with managed services provider to ensure the highest quality service.
• Manage all delivery metrics for managed services partner.
• Manage internal team of architects and technologists to design, build and support technology in a highly-available environment.
• Implement monitoring controls and build relationship with managed services Network Operation Center.
• Define and manage the IT Operations department including staffing structure, operations and network functions to achieve business objectives.
• Define and manage department projects to ensure continual Productivity, staff development, and achievement of goals.
• Contribute to budget planning and oversight.
• Develop and execute IT policies in conjunction with the business leaders.
• Deliver IT services to provide highly available experience to internal and external customers.

MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

• Demonstrate leadership by regularly summarizing performance results with staff in support of our Performance Management System.
• Demonstrate positive self-confidence and business maturity in professional relationships.
• Regularly meet with staff, document status of assignments, discuss priorities and communicate issues and needs to direct-report manager and direct report staff or others as appropriate.
• Monitor, evaluate, and take action to attain the firm’s planned results.
• Manage personnel activities of direct report staff.
• Develop and grow team to align with business needs.

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a Technology related field required. Master’s degree or related experience preferred.
• Fifteen 15 years experience managing an IT focused initiatives with substantial Operations experience.
• Ten years experience managing IT staff.
• Experience working in a managed services environment.
• Experience with high volume online transaction environment.
• Previous experience designing and implementing HA solutions including mirroring, clustering, and SANs.

Desired Skills/Experience:

• Strong technical skills including current Microsoft Server OS, SQL, Active Directory, VMware, and/or Exchange.
• Exposure to network management in a CISCO centric environment including VOIP.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to set targets, design improvement plans, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and manage a diverse population group.
• Strong interpersonal, problem solving and conflict management skills.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.

If this is of interest

 Please send a copy of your resume or there is someone you can refer please respond to my email address SSchmidt@htassociates.com. Regards, Steve

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leads development of n-tiered applications and automation systems.

• Designs and creates data structure and stored procedures

• Works with business owners to gather requirements, prepare functional specifications, form project plans and communicate progress throughout the software development lifecycle

• Leads multiple projects throughout full lifecycle, interacting with business owners, designers, developers, technical operational teams, QA and support

• Leads and mentors other developers§ Develops training material and trains end users

• Writes and maintains software documentation

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum 3 to 5 years experience developing enterprise applications with one of the following database servers: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Informix, Sybase

• Minimum 2 to 3 years experience developing enterprise applications using Microsoft technologies

• Minimum 3 to 5 years experience developing stored procedures, triggers, views

• Minimum 2 years experience developing ASP.NET web applications, using VB.NET or C#, with a Microsoft SQL Server back-end

• Minimum 3 years of database design and object oriented design

• Experience developing Web Services

• Experience developing Windows Services

• Minimum 2 years experience collecting business requirements, preparing formal documentation including Functional Requirements, Database Diagrams, Class Diagrams

• Minimum 1 year experience leading projects through all phases of the software development lifecycle

• Ability to communicate highly technical concepts to non-technical managers and staff

• Must be able to operate with minimal supervision in a fast paced environment

• Well-developed problem solving, project management, and documentation skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Position Summary:

•The Financial Systems Analyst will be a Corporate Finance team member reporting to the Financial Systems Manager, focused on improving financial planning processes and tools.

•Assist Financial Systems Manager with design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of Hyperion Planning and Essbase system.

Responsibilities:

•Creating and maintaining applications, data entry forms, reports, task lists, workflow, security, Essbase cubes, hierarchies, scripts, calculations, business rules, and batch processes

•Own metadata update processes, change control processes and other systems processes

•Create and update system process documentation

•Write test case scenarios and perform testing

•Provide user support, issue tracking and occasional training for Finance system users domestically and internationally

•Liaise with other Finance team members, Business Systems, Accounting, HR and Oracle Technical Support

Requirements:

•Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Management Information Systems or related degree

•2-5 years of relevant working experience in supporting financial budgeting and planning systems

•Prior experience with Hyperion Planning and Essbase development, administration and support is required

•Strong functional understanding of Finance business processes

•Strong financial analysis and modeling skills preferred

•High degree of proficiency with Microsoft Excel required

•Proficiency in Word, Access, PowerPoint, Project, Visio and/or SQL

•Excellent analytical skills, communication skills, and the ability to work independently and as a team player

•Project management experience and a proven ability to meet deadlines and prioritize tasks

•Demonstrated ability to think creatively and solve problems

•Experience with programming language preferred

To apply, email your resume in Word to lnesslar@htassociates.com. If you know any Hyperion or Essbase analysts, developers, or administrators, refer them to this site or email them this posting.

RECRUITER INFORMATION:

Lauren Nesslar

H. T. Associates,Inc.

Email: lnesslar@htassociates.com

Office: 847-577-0300

My client is a software product development company and experience in the technology sector would be ideal. The organization is growing, is internationally known and recognized as a leader in their space, and located near trains and transportation for commuters.

Here are the details:

Responsibilities:

•Actively work with business leaders and employees to support client groups

•Address employee relations matters, investigate, where appropriate recommendations

•Provide coaching, counseling, and conflict resolution to employees and managers

•Educate managers and supervisors in performance management, training, and interpreting company policies and procedures

•Participate in or lead the development and implementation of policies, programs, and processes

•Initiates and forward all contractual documents to appropriate internal / external resources

•Plans and conducts new employee orientation for employees

•Participates in management training rotation

•Sponsor and coordinate employee events

Requirements:

•4+ years relevant work experience in Human Resources organization

•Bachelor’s degree required

•Effective oral and written communication skills

•Experience dealing with employee relations issues

•Working knowledge of federal/state/local employment laws

•Strong project management experience

•Experience working in fast pace, high change environment

•Strong attention to detail with excellent prioritization and follow up skills

•Strong presentation skills to effectively deliver training to all levels of employees

•Working knowledge of HRIS systems – HR PeopleSoft preferred

•Proficient in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.)

•HR certification – PHR or SPHR preferred

•Professional presence

If you are not a fit for this role, I hope you will pass this opportunity on to your network. I look forward to hearing from you!

Lauren Nesslar

Executive Recruiter

H. T. Associates, Inc.

Email: lnesslar@htassociates.com