[{"country_short": "USA", "city": "New York", "description": "Title: Senior Product Manager, S&P Ratings Services\nLocation: US-NY-New York\nStandard and Poor\u2019s is currently seeking a Business Systems Product Manager in our Ratings Operations Department. The qualified candidate will be responsible for managing an internal product that will involve making daily decisions to solve operating problems and interacting with users to identify and prioritize product improvements. The candidate will also perform assessments of the business processes, applications, and tools used by Rating Analytical Teams.\n\nEssential Accountabilities\n* \nGuide and collaborate with IT, Analysts, Enterprise Data Management, Project Management Office and Quality Assurance Groups to ensure the product\u2019s optimal utility to its users.\n* \nKeep management informed about major application issues, recommend resolution strategies which includes detailed benefits and cost of the solutions.\n* \nTrack and ensure management approved directives are implemented.\n* \nProvide metrics for tracking and reporting product usage within the Ratings businesses analytic teams. Ensure business operations managers have relevant usable metrics\n* \nImplement a product training plan that is aligned with product updates for all new and current users.\n* \nWrite and review communication to all product users to ensure relevant flow of information critical to the use of the product.\n* \nCoordinate with Operations managers, Business Process Managers and Data managers to ensure User groups across the globe are participating in User Acceptance Testing to ensure the application is adequately tested before its release.\n* \nAnalyze and document impact of application functionality changes to business process in conjunction with Business Analyst, VP Operations and Business Process Management group. This includes regulatory changes.\n* \nReview Quality Assurance reports of application and defects associated with a proposed product release to determine whether the release can be promoted to production as is, or whether further corrective action is required.\n* \n5-6 years of experience in Financial Services with working knowledge of Product Management and Information Management Principles.\n* \nExperience and knowledge in project management\n* \nWell-developed communication skills; both written and oral\n* \nComfortable in a fast paced, multi-deadline driven environment\n* \nAbility to collaborate with and influence senior and peer personnel\n* \nMust be self sufficient and able to work independently.\n* \nBachelor Degree required. Masters degree a plus.\n* \nExperience and knowledge in business process management\n* \nExperience in Product and Operations Management of complex IT systems preferred.\n* \nFamiliarity with AGILE framework is desirable. \nBenefits\nRegular full-time employees of The McGraw-Hill Companies routinely receive the following benefits: \n* Medical, Dental, Vision insurance, Flexible spending accounts with company contribution\n* 401K with company matching, long-term and annual incentives, stock purchase program\n* Many work/life benefits such as low-cost emergency child- and elder-care, parental leave for birth or adoption, flexible work arrangements, volunteer opportunities, employee assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee discounts, and much more \n\nAbout the Company\nCome work for McGraw-Hill/Standard & Poor's, the world's premier provider of investment research, market indices, credit ratings, financial data, and fixed income research and analysis. With more than 10,000 employees and offices in nearly two dozen countries, S&P offers you the opportunity to make an impact in nearly every segment of the global financial community, creating the tools, analysis and research needed for investors to make informed investment decisions. Standard & Poor's is a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies.\n\nThe McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) is a Fortune500 corporation with over 20,000 global employees and over 10,000 U.S. employees. Around the world, McGraw-Hill provides people with the information and insights they need to adapt and grow in changing times. Our business spans the fields of financial services, education, and business information with leading brand names such as Standard & Poor's, McGraw-Hill Education, Platts, and J.D. Power & Associates. By working together with our customers and partners, these brands are laying the foundation for a smarter, better world.\n\nThe McGraw-Hill Companies is an equal opportunity employer. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. For special accommodation due to disability, please email webmaster -at- mcgraw-hill.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate individual.\n\n\n\nJob Type: Operations", "date_new": "2012-05-24 03:46:50", "url": "http://mcgraw-hill.jobs/xml/28910077/job", "country": "United States", "company": "McGraw-Hill", "title": "Senior Product Manager, S&P Ratings Services", "reqid": "24811", "state": "New York", "state_short": "NY", "location": "New York, NY", "uid": 28910077}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "New York", "description": "Title: Senior Software Engineer\nLocation: US-NY-New York\nMcGraw-Hill Higher Education, a division of McGraw-Hill Education, is a leading innovator in the development of 21st century teaching and learning solutions for postsecondary and higher education markets worldwide. Through a comprehensive range of digital and traditional education content and tools focused on improving student learning outcomes, McGraw-Hill Higher Education empowers and prepares professionals and students to connect, learn and succeed in the global economy.\n\nMcGraw-Hill Higher Education currently has an opening for aSenior Software Engineerin the New York City office. The Digital Senior Software Engineer is responsible for the following:\n\n* Provides technical leadership to the development team.\n* Interacts with and coordinates activities of cross-functional teams, including development, user experience, business stakeholders, system administration, database administration, network engineering and production support staff.\n* High/Low level design, hands on software development, create frameworks, use third party frameworks, code reviews\n* Identify gaps and proactively improve system service level agreements.\n* Bachelors degree in Computer Science or relevant field (or equivalent experience)\n* 7 years experience\n* Expert level experience in Java, Spring, SQL, SOA, REST based Wed Services, Struts or Spring MVE, and Design Patterns.\n* Intermediate level experience in Hibernate/JPA, Ajax, HTML,CSS,JS, Unix, Agile, Test Driven Development, Maven, ANT, and JEE App server.\nThe mission ofThe McGraw-Hill Companiesis to create a smarter, better world through our people, products, and our work in our communities. We are making sure our customers get the information they need to succeed. People who work here want to make sure that happens and see the positive impact of what we do in education. If you possess the above qualifications, and are dynamic, motivated, and passionate about educational publishing, please apply through our online system.\n\nThe McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) is a Fortune500 corporation with leading brand names such as Standard & Poor's, McGraw-Hill Education, Platts, and J.D. Power & Associates. By working together with our customers and partners, these brands are laying the foundation for a smarter, better world.\n\nThe McGraw-Hill Companies is an equal opportunity employer. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. For special accommodation due to disability,please email webmaster -at- mcgraw-hill.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate individual.\n\n\n\n\n\nJob Type: Operations", "date_new": "2012-05-12 04:17:37", "url": "http://mcgraw-hill.jobs/xml/28655169/job", "country": "United States", "company": "McGraw-Hill", "title": "Senior Software Engineer", "reqid": "24575", "state": "New York", "state_short": "NY", "location": "New York, NY", "uid": 28655169}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "New York", "description": "Title: Senior Specialist, Ratings Operations\nLocation: US-NY-New York\nStandard & Poor's is the world's premier provider of investment research, market indices, credit ratings, financial data, and fixed income research and analysis. With more than 10,000 employees and offices in nearly two dozen countries, S&P is valued by investors and financial decision-makers everywhere for its analytical independence, market expertise and thought leadership. For 150 years Standard & Poor's has been an integral part of the global economic infrastructure. Its operations provide essential information to nearly every segment of the global financial community, creating the tools, analysis and research needed to make informed investment decisions.    www.sp-150.com\n\nWe are presently looking to hire an Associate (Senior Specialist) to join our Structured Finance practice in our Ratings Operations Group. The Operations Associate is a critical member of the Structured Finance Ratings Operations team whose responsibility is to analyze, develop, implement and monitor business processes related to analytic and regulatory functions and requirements and to quantify business case scenarios for new Structured Finance ratings projects.\n\nEssential Accountabilities include, but are not limited to the following:\n\n\u00b7     Under the direction of Director of Operations and working closely with project teams, plan, analyze, develop and implement process changes across ratings businesses. Examples include:\n\u00b7     Lead and/or participate on specific projects as defined by business leadership by facilitating business input sessions, applying critical thinking, process design, and communicating solutions.\n\u00b7     Gather information; perform qualitative and quantitative analysis to derive root causes of business related problems with a focus on process improvement and risk mitigation.\n\u00b7     Write business procedures, training materials, and participate in other implementation related tasks.\n\u00b7     Make recommendations on suggested project rollout plan and identify associated risks.\n\u00b7     Synthesize analysis performed and draft Senior Mgmt. presentation on recommendations.\n\u00b7     Create and deliver process improvement metrics for ratings business to track process transformations\n\u00b7     Create business cases, perform cost/benefit analysis and formulate investment recommendations for new Structured Finance ratings projects.\n\u00b7     As immediate operational challenges are identified, provide problem-solving support.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQualifications include, but are not limited to the following:\n\nAs immediate operational challenges are identified, provide problem-solving support. Core Required Skills:\n\n\u2022 Experience working in a regulated industry and broad exposure to the capital markets and financial services industry.\n\u2022 Ability to work effectively within the organization's complex decision making and organizational structures.\n\u2022 Ability to map process flows for complex processes. Knowledge of Six Sigma/DMAIC a plus.\n\u2022 Possess the ability to think analytically, organize effectively and possess strong problem-solving skills.\n\u2022 Skilled in conducting research, gathering a variety of internal and external information and synthesizing this information into a cohesive and concise document.\n\u2022 Strong technical skills with Visio, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.\n\u2022 Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills and a customer-service orientation.\n\u2022 Must be confident, calm under pressure and possess influencing skills.\n\u2022 Must be able to work effectively in a team-oriented, global, and multi-cultural environment.\n\n\nThe McGraw-Hill Companies is an equal opportunity employer. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. For special accommodation due to disability, please visit the FAQs on our Career Site found here.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJob Type: Operations", "date_new": "2012-05-04 04:26:45", "url": "http://mcgraw-hill.jobs/xml/28426882/job", "country": "United States", "company": "McGraw-Hill", "title": "Senior Specialist,  Ratings Operations", "reqid": "24080", "state": "New York", "state_short": "NY", "location": "New York, NY", "uid": 28426882}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "New York", "description": "Title: Senior Manager, Analytical Education\nLocation: US-NY-New York\nStandard & Poor's, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP) is the world's foremost provider of credit ratings. With offices in 23 countries, Standard & Poor's is an important part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for 150 years in providing investors with information and independent benchmarks for their investment and financial decisions. For more information, visit htt://www.sandp.com\n\nStandard & Poor\u2019s ratings serve as a useful tool for investors and market participants to gauge credit risk and have helped companies and governments access capital.\n\nStandard & Poor\u2019s Ratings Services is seeking a Senior Manager of Analytical Educationto develop and administer credit education programs that ensures Ratings Services (RS\u201d) U.S. analytical staff have the requisite knowledge and skills required to analyze credit risk.\n\nEssential Accountabilities include but are not limited to the following:\n\n\u2022 Develop and implement the analytical education and certification leadership action implementation plan for Ratings, North and Latin America. This includes course design, course evaluation, teaching and working as the key liaison with the test administrator, senior analysts, and/or subject matter experts (SMEs\u201d) to develop Level I and Level II exam questions. \n\u2022 Develop the self-study guides for all analytical education curriculum courses.\n\u2022 Enable and improve the quality, efficiency, and educational advancement of the analytical staff, including analytical continuing education courses and requirements. \n\u2022 Develop courses that ensure analysts are equipped to evaluate innovative financial instruments.\n\u2022 Conduct periodic validation of the necessary skill sets to become an analyst and map analytical curriculum and continuing education courses to enable analysts to advance through the analytical ranks.\n\u2022 Manage analytical education to ensure courses and classes are efficiently and correctly entered into the Learning Center data base.\n\u2022 Develop key reports for Ratings management to track analytical education courses, classes and credit-hours. Includes review of submitted requests for analytical credit-hours for external activities\n\u2022 Assist Global Regulatory Affairs, Legal, and Human Resources to the extent necessary on issues pertaining to the development, rollout, and administration of the Analytic Certification Program for North and Latin America including Compliance policies. \n\u2022 Responsible for developing/implementing remediation activities for analysts that do not pass the initial certification exam Levels I and Level II.\n\u2022 Update analytical education curriculum on an ongoing basis to ensure currency and relevancy of analytical skills required of analysts. \n\u2022 Direct the on-boarding training for new hires training should be comprised of in-depth education in credit analysis covering particular industries or types of structured securities.\n\u2022 Create case studies to teach specific lessons about credit analysis.\n\nQualifications include but are not limited to the following:\n\n\u2022 Graduate degree in Business, Finance, Law, or related field strongly preferred;\n\u2022 Adult Education/Training background strongly preferred;\n\u2022 Ability to interact with leaders at all levels of the organization, establish credibility and respect;\n\u2022 Strong project management abilities;\n\u2022 A team-based, collaborative leadership style;\n\u2022 Adaptable, logical, highly organized, focused, process and execution oriented;\n\u2022 Highly developed interpersonal skills for negotiations with key stakeholders;\n\u2022 Robust generalist skill set necessary to coordinate and administer certification programs;\n\u2022 Results-oriented with a strong record of accomplishment;\n\u2022 Proven ability to prioritize and complete multiple complex projects simultaneously;\n\u2022 Leadership skills and change management attitude \u2013 the capacity to challenge views, processes, and behaviors, especially in complex areas;\n\u2022 Influencing skills.\n\nPermanent work authorization for the United States is required.\n\nThe McGraw-Hill Companies is an equal opportunity employer. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. For special accommodation due to disability, please visit the FAQs on our Career Site found here.\n<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" />\n\n\n\n\n\nJob Type: Operations", "date_new": "2012-04-26 04:15:02", "url": "http://mcgraw-hill.jobs/xml/28198376/job", "country": "United States", "company": "McGraw-Hill", "title": "Senior Manager, Analytical Education", "reqid": "24487", "state": "New York", "state_short": "NY", "location": "New York, NY", "uid": 28198376}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "New York", "description": "Title: Product Manager, Ratings Business Systems\nLocation: US-NY-New York\nStandard & Poor\u2019s has an opening for a Business Systems Product Manager in our Ratings Operations Department. The qualified candidate will be responsible for managing an internal product that will involve making daily decisions to solve operating problems and interacting with users to identify and prioritize product improvements. The candidate will also perform assessments of the business processes, applications, and tools used by Rating Analytical Teams.\n\nEssential Accountabilities:\n* Guide and collaborate with IT, Analysts, Enterprise Data Management, Project Management Office and Quality Assurance Groups to ensure the product\u2019s optimal utility to its users.\n* Keep management informed about major application issues, recommend resolution strategies which includes detailed benefits and cost of the solutions.\n* Track and ensure management approved directives are implemented.\n* Provide metrics for tracking and reporting product usage within the Ratings businesses analytic teams. Ensure business operations managers have relevant usable metrics.\n* Implement a product training plan that is aligned with product updates for all new and current users.\n* Write and review communication to all product users to ensure relevant flow of information critical to the use of the product.\n* Coordinate with Operations managers, Business Process Managers and Data managers to ensure User groups across the globe are participating in User Acceptance Testing to ensure the application is adequately tested before its release.\n* Analyze and document impact of application functionality changes to business process in conjunction with Business Analyst, VP Operations and Business Process Management group. This includes regulatory changes.\n* Review Quality Assurance reports of application and defects associated with a proposed product release to determine whether the release can be promoted to production as is, or whether further corrective action is required.\n* 5-6 years of experience in Financial Services with working knowledge of Product Management and Information Management Principles.\n* Experience and knowledge in project management\n* Well-developed communication skills; both written and oral\n* Comfortable in a fast paced, multi-deadline driven environment\n* Ability to collaborate with and influence senior and peer personnel\n* Must be self sufficient and able to work independently.\n* Education: Bachelor Degree required. Masters degree a plus.\n* Experience and knowledge in business process management\n* Experience in Product and Operations Management of complex IT systems preferred.\n* Familiarity with AGILE framework is desirable.\n\nBenefits\nRegular full-time employees of The McGraw-Hill Companies routinely receive the following benefits:\n* \nMedical, Dental, Vision insurance, Flexible spending accounts with company contribution\n* \n401K with company matching, long-term and annual incentives, stock purchase program\n* \nMany work/life benefits such as low-cost emergency child- and elder-care, parental leave for birth or adoption, flexible work arrangements, volunteer opportunities, employee assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee discounts, and much more \nAbout the Company\nCome work for McGraw-Hill/Standard & Poor's, the world's premier provider of investment research, market indices, credit ratings, financial data, and fixed income research and analysis. With more than 10,000 employees and offices in nearly two dozen countries, S&P offers you the opportunity to make an impact in nearly every segment of the global financial community, creating the tools, analysis and research needed for investors to make informed investment decisions. Standard & Poor's is a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies.\n\nThe McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) is a Fortune500 corporation with over 20,000 global employees and over 10,000 U.S. employees. Around the world, McGraw-Hill provides people with the information and insights they need to adapt and grow in changing times. Our business spans the fields of financial services, education, and business information with leading brand names such as Standard & Poor's, McGraw-Hill Education, Platts, and J.D. Power & Associates. By working together with our customers and partners, these brands are laying the foundation for a smarter, better world.\n\nThe McGraw-Hill Companies is an equal opportunity employer. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. For special accommodation due to disability, please email webmaster -at- mcgraw-hill.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate individual.\n\n\n\nJob Type: Operations", "date_new": "2012-04-10 11:38:41", "url": "http://mcgraw-hill.jobs/xml/27787097/job", "country": "United States", "company": "McGraw-Hill", "title": "Product Manager, Ratings Business Systems", "reqid": "24070", "state": "New York", "state_short": "NY", "location": "New York, NY", "uid": 27787097}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "New York", "description": "Title: Business Analyst, SF, FI, Equities domain knowledge required\nLocation: US-NY-New York\nOur Global Data Solutions group has a great opportunity for a Business Analyst. In this role, you'll partner with other smart and dynamic professionals to enhance the Enterprise Data Solutions Platform, which includes cutting-edge web and client applications, web services, and data feeds. Our Business Analysts are involved in the full product life cycle, from design through release, and work closely with the Technology and Client Development teams during the conceptual and development stages of each project.\n\nAs a Business Analyst, you will take ownership of specific functionality and content areas within the Ratings Services platform. You will write detailed design documents that include new feature specifications, workflow designs, and wireframes/graphical layouts. Business Analytics also perform quality assurance tasks to ensure stability, usability, and consistency of the platform. You'll perform competitive research and analysis, analyze usage statistics, and conduct user interviews to identify specific areas of improvement. We see tremendous opportunity for growth. Come work with smart, results-oriented thinkers and thrive in an open, dynamic, and challenging environment!\n\nThis position will be a key player in the execution of functional and data analysis requirements within the Enterprise Data Solutions group. Selected individual will help develop the new product development infrastructure, sales and customer support documentation and project logistics. In addition to managing data requirements for both internal applications and commerical product offerings, incumbent will also be responsible for project execution on the strategic use of data across the organization.\n\nEssential Accountabilities:\n* \nCatalogue the data inputs used in commercial models and coordinate efforts to standardize input data sets where possible\n* \nWork with members of other teams such as Project Management, Business Units, and IT to understand, identify and address issues or opportunities that lead to effective data management processes and improvements in data quality and services\n* \nCompile the global alternatives of potential data sources and integrating them into a framework for utilization in the collection and distribution process\n* \nDeliver recommendations and support implementation of workflow and process re-design for more effective collection, storage and distribution of content.\n* \nWork with technical and development teams to ensure appropriate implementation of data changes\n* \nActively participate in mapping the many data sources to be included in Enterprise Data Management Solution to the data model established IT modeling team.\n* \nCoordinate the testing of the data feeds and the maps upon each implementation to ensure expectations are met.\n* \nProvide recommendations and support implementation on technical or procedural workflow on data production by partnering with IT to build new data processes.\n* \nPerform root cause and trend analysis and implement solutions that lead to data quality and process improvements\n* \nManage and run ad hoc data queries from multiple database types to identify data inconsistencies and support data production groups initiatives\n* \nManage data collection from multiple sources and make recommendations on alternatives for implementation\n* \nScrutinize data record counts from differing databases/sources, determine reasons for any discrepancies and implement streamlined processes\n* \nProvide project management and data strategy expertise\n* \nPerform business analysis on enhancement requests of processes and systems\n* \nRepresent the team, its responsibilities and vision to management and business audiences\nQUALIFICATIONS:\n* \nMinimum of a Bachelor's Degree; advanced degree a plus\n* \n5 years of work experience\n* \nFinancial Services industry experience required; Ratings experience preferred\n* \nGood domain knowledge, i.e. Structured Finance, Fixed Income, Equities, Fundamentals\n* \nAdvanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Access skills\n* \nIntermediate experience with SQL, including the ability to create complex queries, navigate large data models, and create basic data models for data analysis\n* \nExperience with AGILE software development process\n* \nPrior project management and data management experience is necessary\n* \nAdvanced understanding of database modeling/design/applications\n* \nBreadth of international experience, including examining and integrating data across multiple markets.\n\nBenefits\nRegular full-time employees of McGraw-Hill Financial routinely receive the following benefits:\n* \nMedical, Dental, Vision insurance, Flexible spending accounts with company contribution\n* \n401K with company matching, long-term and annual incentives, stock purchase program\n* \nMany work/life benefits such as low-cost emergency child- and elder-care, parental leave for birth or adoption, flexible work arrangements, volunteer opportunities, employee assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee discounts, and much more\nAbout the Company\nCome work for McGraw-Hill/S&P, the world's premier provider of investment research, market indices, credit ratings, financial data, and fixed income research and analysis. With more than 10,000 employees and offices in nearly two dozen countries, S&P offers you the opportunity to make an impact in nearly every segment of the global financial community, creating the tools, analysis and research needed for investors to make informed investment decisions.\n\nThe McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) is a Fortune500 corporation with over 20,000 global employees and over 10,000 U.S. employees. Around the world, McGraw-Hill provides people with the information and insights they need to adapt and grow in changing times. Our business spans the fields of financial services, education, and business information with leading brand names such as S&P Capital IQ, S&P Indices, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, McGraw-Hill Education, Platts, and J.D. Power & Associates. By working together with our customers and partners, these brands are laying the foundation for a smarter, better world.\nThe McGraw-Hill Companies is an equal opportunity employer. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. For special accommodation due to disability, please email webmaster -at- mcgraw-hill.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate individual.\n\n\n\n\nJob Type: Operations", "date_new": "2012-04-07 08:41:17", "url": "http://mcgraw-hill.jobs/xml/27724941/job", "country": "United States", "company": "McGraw-Hill", "title": "Business Analyst, SF, FI, Equities domain knowledge required", "reqid": "22390", "state": "New York", "state_short": "NY", "location": "New York, NY", "uid": 27724941}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "New York", "description": "Title: OPERATIONS SPECIALIST\nLocation: US-NY-New York\nStandard & Poor's, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP), is the world's foremost provider of credit ratings. With offices in 23 countries, Standard & Poor's is an important part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for 150 years in providing investors with infomration and independenct benchmarks for their investment and financial decisions. For more information, viis http://www.understandingratings.com\n\nThe S&P Structured Finance team is presently seeking an Associate(Operations Specialist)to join our Structured Finance practice in our Ratings Operations Group. The Operations Associate is a critical member of the Structured Finance Ratings Operations team whose responsibility is to analyze, develop, implement and monitor business processes related to analytic and regulatory functions and requirements and to quantify business case scenarios for new Structured Finance ratings projects.\n\nThis position is based in NYC at the 55 Water Street location. Key responsibilities will include the following:\n\n\u2022 Under the direction of Director of Operations and working closely with project teams, plan, analyze, develop and implement process changes across ratings businesses. Examples include:\n\u2022 Work on specific projects as defined by business leadership by facilitating business input sessions, applying critical thinking, process design, and communicating solutions.\n\u2022 Gather information; perform qualitative and quantitative analysis to derive root causes of business related problems with a focus on process improvement and risk mitigation.\n\u2022 Write business procedures, training materials, and perform other implementation related tasks.\n\u2022 Contribute to project rollout plan and identify associated risks.\n\u2022 Synthesize analysis performed and draft recommendations.\n\u2022 Create and deliver process improvement metrics for ratings business to track process transformations.\n\u2022 As immediate operational challenges are identified, provide problem-solving support.\n\nQualifications include but are not limited to the following: \n\n\u2022 Experience working in a regulated industry and broad exposure to the capital markets and financial services industry.\n\u2022 Ability to work effectively within the organization's complex decision making and organizational structures.\n\u2022 Ability to map process flows for business processes. Knowledge of Six Sigma/DMAIC a plus.\n\u2022 Possess the ability to think analytically, organize effectively and possess strong problem-solving skills.\n\u2022 Skilled in conducting research, gathering a variety of internal and external information and synthesizing this information into a cohesive and concise document.\n\u2022 Strong technical skills with Visio, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.\n\u2022 Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills and a customer-service orientation.\n\u2022 Must be confident, calm under pressure and possess influencing skills.\n\u2022 Must be able to work effectively in a team-oriented, global, and multi-cultural environment.\n\nThe McGraw-Hill Companies is an equal opportunity employer. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. For special accommodation due to disability, please visit the FAQs on our Career Site found here.\n\n\n\n\n\nJob Type: Operations", "date_new": "2012-04-07 08:41:14", "url": "http://mcgraw-hill.jobs/xml/27724929/job", "country": "United States", "company": "McGraw-Hill", "title": "OPERATIONS SPECIALIST", "reqid": "23573", "state": "New York", "state_short": "NY", "location": "New York, NY", "uid": 27724929}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "New York", "description": "Title: Manager, Analytical Support Unit\nLocation: US-NY-New YorkThe Manager is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Analytical Support Unit for the U.S. Corporates group. U.S. Corporates processes over 5,000 rating actions in a year and a manager is critical to coordinate the needs and requirements of all the relevant parties: Analysts, Analytical Managers, other Analytic Support Units (ASU), CORE, Quality, Compliance and Publishing. Some of these actions are very complex and a Manager is critical to successful processing, which will ensure accuracy and proper, timely coordination among contributors.\nThe Manager ensures the effective and efficient utilization of staff, distribution of work and the highest quality work product. The goal is to effectively support the Rating Analysts in the U.S. Corporates group with regard to rating action processing, rating quality, records management, and adherence to numerous policy requirements. This role entails considerable interaction with the roles listed above, in order to solve problems within the business unit related to rating action processing, directing analysts to policy requirements and addressing operational inefficiencies.\n\nEssential Accountabilities: \n\n* Manage 5 - 8 ASU Specialists by establishing goals in support of both business unit and operations and monitor performance on a regular basis\n* Supervise and coordinate day-to-day activity, including providing guidance to resolve/escalate problems and provide solutions\n* Supervise records management and support Audit, Compliance, Quality, rating committees and rating actions\n* Keep abreast of Rating Agency's Regulatory Requirements for US Corporates & Governments\n* Support Director of Operations to initiate and sponsor continuous improvement and strategic initiatives\n* Work with Director and VP, Rating Operations and various S&P functional units, including IT, DSO, BPM, and PMO teams, to analyze and document current business operating processes and systems, recommend areas for improvement (reliability and efficiency) and provide support for improving implementation of operational systems (products, tools), processes and policies. Recognize and solve problems.\n* Monitor and update processes through the effective use of metrics and measures. Create and develop new metrics to support business unit management and process improvements.\n* Document operating guidelines and procedures related to credit ratings processes, including key controls. Be responsible for updating this documentation on a frequent basis.\n* Provide the means, including ongoing training, for the analysts to maintain currently high RPM adoption rates and compliance with rating action document requirements in terms of completion and timeliness\n\n* Minimum of 6 years\u2019 experience in a managerial role within a Financial Services or Professional Services company\n* Very high level of problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude to provide solutions\n* Broad knowledge of how organization operates and ability to recognize opportunities that require integration, mobilization, and coordination of disparate expertise to pursue those opportunities\n* Highly-developed oral and written communications skills\n* Comprehensive understanding of business management, including marketing, finance, administration, technology, staff development and operations\n* Broad exposure to the capital markets and financial services industry\n* Bachelor\u2019s degree required\n* BPM training is a plus\n\nAbout the Company\nStandard & Poor's is the world's premier provider of investment research, market indices, credit ratings, financial data, and fixed income research and analysis. With more than 10,000 employees and offices in nearly two dozen countries, S&P is valued by investors and financial decision-makers everywhere for its analytical independence, market expertise and thought leadership. For 150 years Standard & Poor's has been an integral part of the global economic infrastructure. Its operations provide essential information to nearly every segment of the global financial community, creating the tools, analysis and research needed to make informed investment decisions.      www.sp-150.com     \n\n\nThe McGraw-Hill Companies is an equal opportunity employer. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. For special accommodation due to disability, please visit the FAQs on our Career Site foundhere.\n\n\n\n\nJob Type: Operations", "date_new": "2012-04-07 08:40:52", "url": "http://mcgraw-hill.jobs/xml/27724844/job", "country": "United States", "company": "McGraw-Hill", "title": "Manager, Analytical Support Unit", "reqid": "23922", "state": "New York", "state_short": "NY", "location": "New York, NY", "uid": 27724844}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "New York", "description": "Title: Lead Software Engineer\nLocation: US-NY-New York\nMcGraw-Hill Higher Education, a division of McGraw-Hill Education, is a leading innovator in the development of 21st century teaching and learning solutions for postsecondary and higher education markets worldwide. Through a comprehensive range of digital and traditional education content and tools focused on improving student learning outcomes, McGraw-Hill Higher Education empowers and prepares professionals and students to connect, learn and succeed in the global economy.\n\nMcGraw-Hill Higher Education currently has an opening for a Lead Software Engineerin the New York City office. The Digital Lead Software Engineer is responsible for the following:\n\nEssential Accountabilities:\n* Provides technical leadership to the development team.\n* Interacts with and coordinates activities of cross-functional teams, including development, user experience, business stakeholders, system administration, database administration, network engineering and production support staff.\n* High/Low level design, hands on software development, create frameworks, use third party frameworks, code reviews\n* Identify gaps and proactively improve system service level agreements.\n* Bachelors degree in Computer Science or relevant field (or equivalent experience)\n* 10 years experience\n* Expert level experience in Java, Spring, SQL, SOA, REST based Wed Services, Struts or Spring MVE, and Design Patterns.\n* Intermediate level experience in Hibernate/JPA, Ajax, HTML,CSS,JS, Unix, Agile, Test Driven Development, Maven, ANT, and JEE App server.\nThe mission ofThe McGraw-Hill Companiesis to create a smarter, better world through our people, products, and our work in our communities. We are making sure our customers get the information they need to succeed. People who work here want to make sure that happens and see the positive impact of what we do in education. If you possess the above qualifications, and are dynamic, motivated, and passionate about educational publishing, please apply through our online system.\n\nThe McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) is a Fortune500 corporation with leading brand names such as Standard & Poor's, McGraw-Hill Education, Platts, and J.D. Power & Associates. By working together with our customers and partners, these brands are laying the foundation for a smarter, better world.\n\nThe McGraw-Hill Companies is an equal opportunity employer. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. For special accommodation due to disability,please email webmaster -at- mcgraw-hill.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate individual.\nHow many years of experience do you possess in Software Engineering?\n\n\n\nJob Type: Operations", "date_new": "2012-04-07 08:39:53", "url": "http://mcgraw-hill.jobs/xml/27724612/job", "country": "United States", "company": "McGraw-Hill", "title": "Lead Software Engineer", "reqid": "23804", "state": "New York", "state_short": "NY", "location": "New York, NY", "uid": 27724612}]