Finance Technology - Senior Software Engineer, Gurgaon, India.

Tower Research Capital, a high-frequency proprietary trading firm founded in 1998, seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Finance Technology to join our Finance Technology team.

The Finance Technology team reports to the global CFO’s office and has team members distributed across India and the Americas. The team is responsible for providing technology components to support Tower Research’s complex Finance and regulatory space. This includes comprehensive and accurate transactional and referential data, robust reconciliation processes and best-in-class reporting framework focusing on efficiency through automation.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-going Oracle support for business as usual activities to ensure critical tasks can be completed in time such as:
• Monitoring and break-fixing daily transactional integrations with various Tower in-house and COTS (commercial-off-the-self) applications before end of day.
• Monitoring and managing reconciliations between such systems and Oracle.
• Monitoring and managing daily integrations between Tower and various third-parties such as Banks (for statements and payments), Exchange rate providers etc.
• Providing technical and how-to support for various queries from business users which allow for them to effectively complete business activities such as ADFdi, SmartView, OTBI etc.
• Perform month-end activities including opening/closing of ledger, maintenance of interfaces, accounting completion, period-close exception etc.
• Management of Chart of accounts and other master data and transactional rules such as CVR.
• Identifying inefficiencies around Finance processes and transform them to support transactional and reporting capabilities via Oracle Cloud or custom developed products
• Building and delivering the future of financial platform for the firm, in sync with the requirements of  both existing systems and future new businesses
• Understanding the specific reporting and analytical needs for different users of the financial data and enhancing current system capabilities and reports to support current and future business processes and statutory/MIS requirements.
• Working closely with global team members located in the US, Europe, and Asia, to handle region-specific systems and to provide technology coverage for critical workflows and processes.

Qualifications

• Must Have
• At least 5-8 years of hands-on experience in working with Oracle ERP. Minimum 3 years of experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud (SaaS) with minimum of 2 full cycle implementations.
• In-depth knowledge and experience of the following Finance and Procurement processes including best practices around:
• Record to Report
• Procure to pay
• Acquire to Retire
• Order to Cash
• Project to Report
• Financial Consolidation and Close
• Financial Reporting
• Hands-on experience in the following Oracle Fusion Cloud modules:
• Financials:
• General Ledger
• Intercompany
• Accounts Payable
• Payments
• Accounts Receivable
• Cash Management
• Fixed Assets
• Procurement
• Self Service Procurement
• Purchasing
• Sourcing
• Supplier Qualification
• Basic accounting knowledge
• In depth knowledge of configuration, configuration options, data models and referential data management in Oracle Cloud including Chart of Accounts, Trees, Cross-validation rules etc.
• Thorough understanding of Period-end processes such as Ledger Close, Revaluation, Translation
• Hands-on experience in developing and managing reports using OTBI, FR Studio and BI Publisher.
• Knowledge of SQL
• Hands on experience in developing OIC integrations - both scheduled and as well as event based.
• Knowledge of ERP Cloud OIC adapters and implementation techniques.
• Thorough understanding of Oracle Cloud Rest and SOAP APIs.
• Understanding of outbound data integration via BIP and BICC.
• Nice to have
• Exposure to Tableau or other similar reporting tools and understanding of data warehousing concepts.
• Hands-on experience with both Financial Consolidation and Close (FCCS) and Planning Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS), Data Management and EPM Automate
• Basic exposure to Python and integration with Oracle cloud using Python
• Exposure to management of Employee Expense Management tools such as Concur / Navan etc.
• Basic understanding of HR processes (Hire to Retire) and exposure to HCM tools viz. Workday, Oracle HCM, a plus.

Additionally, the candidate will be:

• Organized and detail-oriented
• Ability to work with geographically distanced teams
• Ability to work with cross functional teams
• Able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Able to quickly build a technical prototype.
• Exposure to working in agile environments
• Strong communication skills and fluency in English

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
• 5 weeks of paid vacation per year
• Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks on a daily basis
• Cab facility within Gurgaon
• Health club allowances

Tower Research Capital is an equal opportunity employer