穆楠，毕业于多伦多大学工商管理金融专业。2007年开始从事招聘和人力资源管理工作，先后担任过校园招聘主管，IT和金融行业招聘负责人，主要负责审核简历，面试，培训，入职讲座，IT项目和人力资源整组和优化，薪资管理和评估。主要服务客户为银行金融，政府，电讯公司，百货零售业，物流和商业服务等世界500强公司。2009年的世界日报还报道过穆楠的入职经历，作为一个中国留学生如何进入国外猎头公司并在2年内薪资翻倍。现就职于加拿大最大规模的ICT staffing公司Procom担任招聘负责人，主要针对IT和金融行业，有8年丰富的管理工作经验，组建并培训了Procom菲律宾马尼拉海外分部。穆老师8年来帮助上千名华人移民及留学生找到心仪的专业工作，她为华人社区做出的突出贡献曾被中加媒体报道。

 

Procom 是目前加拿大最大规模的ICT Staffing 公司 (according to the most recent Branham 300 List in 2015), 公司成立于1978年。

Procom是一家IT和金融的综合管理顾问公司，名下还有三家子公司，2家软体开发公司和1家payroll公司。

Procom 在北美有14个分部，总部在多伦多，现共有8500 名合约制和全职consultants。

 

Banking：insurance and financial industries: TD, BMO, RBC, CIBC, National Bank, Citi Group，Manulife, Sunlife, Aviva, State Farm, Foresters, London Life, Canada Life etc.

Automobile industry: Toyota, Honda, Ford

Telecom: Rogers, Telus, Bell, Public Mobile, Blackberry (previous RIM)

Retail and Supply Chain: Sears, HBC, Holt Renfrew, Canadian Tire, Loblaw

Public Sector and Schools: WSIB, Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan, OMERS, York University, George Brown College, Durham College, Humber College, Toronto District School Board

Media: CBC, Corus Entertainment 

 

 

Roles & Responsibilities

· Perform timely, accurate application and posting of EFT, ACH, Wire, Cheque, EDI, payments

· Control and administrate unapplied payments

· Prepare daily cash reporting, unapplied cash and related reports

· Investigate payment application/posting discrepancies

· Pull payment details/information, as required

· Prepare/administrate daily bank deposits

· Maintain control sheet/report for cheque payments that are not applied the same day of receipt

· Build and strengthen working relationships with support team initiatives

· Perform special projects and assigned administration tasks, as requested

· Back up/support Cash Application Partners functions in periods of absence · General filing and correspondence

Skills and Knowledge Required

· Strong verbal and written communication skills

· 4+ years of experience with cash applications

· Intermediate – advanced excel skills

· Experience working in a fast paced environment and high volume

· Previous working knowledge of ACCPAC an asset

Accounts Payable Clerk

Roles & Responsibilities

· Data Entry of accounts payable invoices

· Handle vendor inquires through phone and email

· Various administrative duties including filing of back up documents

Skills and Knowledge Required

· Strong verbal and written communication skills

· Strong excel skills, pivot tables & Vlookup a must

· Experience working in a fast paced environment and high volume

· Previous experience working with Sage is an asset

Duration 6 months      Possible extension or conversion to full time

 Work Location: Mississauga. 

Primarily responsible for segment marketing, financial and product analytics for a range of Intuit Small Business and Accountant & Advisory Group offerings

Discover, extract, analyze data and drive analytics projects supporting business unit stakeholders

Advise on data capture and infrastructure improvements based on deep understanding of data needs

Thoroughly understand each business problem’s significance, scope and complexity, and determine the best approach to solve for business insights

Generate follow-up questions with stakeholders, refine data findings and interpret again to drive data-based insights

Lead cross-team projects with central team analysts

Understand the highly complex logic or applications of multiple data sets with massive quantities

Develop new and better analytics approaches to solve questions in a creative way

 3 years of experience analyzing marketing, finance or product data

Proficient experience with SQL required

Experience with SAS, Tableau, BI and other statistical software preferred

Experience with data gap assessments, requirements and infrastructure implementation

Strong background in quantitative thinking and data analysis

Outstanding team player with a client partnership mindset and great communication skills to interact effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues

Self-motivating, tenacious and balanced individual who brings a 'can do' attitude to work

Demonstrated ability and passion to excel within an environment of change, startup mentality and a drive for continuous improvement

Track record of excellent partnering, collaboration and influencing across company functions, different cultures and complex time zones

Post-secondary degree a must along with relevant work experience

Job Description: Job Title: Junior Quality Assurance Analyst
Contract Length: 6 Months
LOB: Wealth Management

Project:
• Coded project: working on trading systems and testing new applications being used in relation to the stock market.

Daily Responsibilities:
• Execute test cases (role may lead to some writing of test cases)
• Escalating issues as they arise
• Solving issues with team members
• Report the results to management

Must Have Skills:
• 1-2 years of QA experience
• Previous unit testing experience

Nice to Have Skills:
• HP Quality Center (ALM a nice asset)
• Knowledge of Mvest
• Experience in testing batch related programs
• Understanding of Wealth Management
• CSC
• Manual testing experience with web browser based applications
• Experience writing test cases
• Exposure to batch program

Job Title: Intermediate Quality Assurance Analyst
Contract Length: 6 Months       Rate:45/hr inc
Working Location: downtown
Daily Responsibilities:
• Create and execute test cases as per the requirements
• Solving issues as they arise and escalating them when required
• Validate results of testing
• Write step by step instructions for the junior QAs

Must Have Skills:
• 3-4 years of QA experience
• HP Quality Center (ALM a nice asset)
• Previous experience in an Agile environment
• Manual testing experience with web browser based applications
• Exposure to batch programs
• Experience writing test cases

Nice to Have Skills:
• Knowledge of Mvest
• Experience in testing batch related programs
• Understanding of Wealth Management
• CSC
• Unit testing experience

Desired Attributes:
• Strong Communication Skills
• Strong conflict resolution skills
• Flexible
• team player
• Ability to learn things quickly
• Independent
• Self-motivated
• Takes initiative
• Detail-oriented

 Title: QA/Market Risk         6 months                   downtown location
Must have
• Strong Market Risk Experience - 3+ years
• Understanding of Market Risk policies
• 5+ years Prior experience as a QA tester and business analyst
• 5+ years IT quality assurance and systems/application testing experience
• 3+ years Capital Markets experience
• 5+ years authoring Test Plans and Test Scripts for projects
*5+ years JIRA if possible if not HPQC
• 5 + yrs previous experience working with financial services
• 5 + yrs Drafting and Execution of moderate to complex Test Cases/Scenarios
*Excellent communication skills

Nice to have:
* previous banking experience in similar experience
* counterparty experience

Description
The successful candidate requires excellent communication skills, written and verbal, and demonstrated experience managing large complex projects in an investment banking environment as well as demonstrated interpersonal skills managing stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities
• Review and provide feedback on high-level business requirements and testing documents.
• Take an active role in all testing phases, receiving direction from the Test Lead and offering advice to the Test Lead when needed.
• Create test cases based on complex business requirements documents and system design documents. Ensure traceability of test cases to requirements.
• Execute regression testing and comparing results of to-be and as-is processes.
• Participate in defect triage.
• Develop and contribute to various test plans.
• Work with HP Quality Centre (HPQC) or JIRA for test case management, defect management, test reporting, and other functions.
• Report testing progress and defect metrics to the Test Lead.
• Work closely with business users during user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Respond to user questions regarding system behaviour and provide assistance during defect resolution.
• Analysis of complex business requirements and system specifications.
• Performing complex test data conditioning, regression testing and testing validation.
• Logging, tracking, and verifying resolution of defects.
• Experience with writing Business requirement, data flow and test strategy / planning documents
• Experience with writing and executing test cases for various phases of testing.
• Creating, preparing and implementing systems quality assurance reviews for various applications.
• Good understanding and experience of working in an iterative approach
• Extensive experience in creating daily defect reports and test results
• Experience with JIRA – strongly preferred or HP Quality Centre (HPQC).
• Knowledge of business analysis principles and QA methodologies.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills (essential)
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills
• Self-starter with the ability to multi-task effectively and independently within a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated ability to follow up on issues independently and ensure they are resolved promptly, escalating when necessary
• Excellent understanding of wholesale banking and capital markets business with respect to processes, practices and technologies
• Knowledge of Securities and Risk with an emphasis on methodology, approach and technologies
• Experience with capital markets products such as Fixed Income, Equity & Derivatives

Job title: Senior Analytics Analyst (with strong SAS, SQL programming capability)

6months
Job Description
The role works as part of the larger Model Management team to facilitate the tuning of AML models so that the bank is not subject to unjustified, undue and/or unidentified risks due to the use of AML models. In addition to implementing leading edge model tuning methodologies, this individual will help to provide input to the framework for model tuning, including model tuning principles and standards, ensuring understanding, acceptance and mitigation of risks from the use of models, and the corresponding roles and responsibilities inherited from such use. This position will implement and make recommendations to senior management on significant issues affecting the use of models and the level of model risk exposure of assets or portfolios under management of these departments and divisions.

The Analyst Model Tuning is accountable to ensure the timely and accurate assessment, and approval of AML models used. The model tuning activities include but are not limited to:
• reviewing model documentation;
• assessing key assumptions, including qualitative and expert judgment, logic and conceptual soundness;
• assessing the quality of the data used for model development as well as inputs to the model;
• replication;
• conduct of various tests;
• documentation of findings in a tuning report;
• confirming correct model implementation and determining the appropriateness of the use of model output.


TOP SKILLS:
• Strong SAS and SQL programming capability, with the ability to perform AML Scenarios’ simulation
• Good knowledge of financial theory; risk related models and stress testing models.
• Good knowledge of quantitative data mining and statistical analysis techniques with minimum of three years of working experience; pertaining to risk modeling.
• In-depth knowledge of industry best practices and good understanding of AML regulatory requirements on risk rating models and parameter estimation
• Master degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, Finance and MBA etc. PhD in quantitative field or combination of quantitative and business degrees preferred
Nice to have:
• AML Fraud experience
• Enterprise Data warehouse experience


Skills
• Analytic Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Information Management
• Applied Innovation
• Risk Management
• Project Management (Basic)
• Managerial Leadership (Basic)


Key Accountabilities
• Integration complexity: multiple systems or applications impacted
• Support the senior management of the AML Model Management team in the development and execution of overall work plan of the sub-group
• Perform research and analysis of applicable methodologies, benchmark model owners’ approaches; and present and recommend appropriate alternatives for model developers
• Produce model tuning reports
• Provide regular updates on the assigned model tuning activities, including a regular review of models/methodologies implemented and ensure that high model risk issues are raised and addressed at appropriate management level
• Keep abreast with advances in AML model developments and applications by vendors, consultants, regulatory agencies and competitors. Recommend/develop enhancements appropriate for the Bank
• Building and testing AML scenarios in various application systems with strong programming skills
• Perform AML Scenarios’ simulation with strong SAS, SQL programming capability

Data Management Concepts – BI, Data Modeling, Conceptual and logical data

Experience in gathering business requirements and translating to business needs

Will need experience dealing with technical teams – good technical background therefore preferred

They want someone that ideally comes from a somewhat technical background.  The SAS and SQL are must haves.  Strong Data management experience

 Previous client/Industry:

Title: HR Business Analyst
Status/Term: Contract, 3 months 
Location: Waterloo/Toronto 

Summary: 
The team is responsible for leading a number of functional specialty areas within Workday, Taleo and other ancillary HR solutions ensuring system functionality is available to support business needs globally. 

This role will support an HR transformation initiative to develop a data dictionary for our core Global HR system (Workday) and related HR systems. This role will develop documentation, capture field information, data definitions, usages etc. and organize in a way that it is maintainable going forward. 

Accountabilities: 

•Facilitate requirements review with participating stakeholders and subject matter experts to elicit information as it relates to building out the data dictionary; 
•Develop data dictionary documentation to identify each field we use in Workday, Global definitions of what goes in that field, where the data is captured; 
•Partner with IS counterparts to help develop reference documentation to support upstream/downstream impact analysis for any data field changes. 
•Build and maintain relationships of trusts with clients, peers and staff members, sharing knowledge and expertise freely to facilitate and support the achievement of purpose; 
•Ensure adherence to quality standards and HR data privacy policy; 
•Collaborate with geographically and culturally diverse cross-functional teams; 
•Ensure all data dictionary documentation and artifacts are delivered to facilitate a clean handoff and knowledge transfer. 


Qualifications: 
•Good data gathering, interviewing, analytical/problem solving skills; Ability to exercise flexibility and judgement in assessing data and linkages between related systems 
•Strong understanding of the HR function, systems, processes, and policies. 
•Excellent organization, planning and time management skills; 
•Strong written and verbal communication skills; 
•Ability to work independently and in a team environment; 
•Ability to work across multiple stakeholder groups 
•Able to produce quality work and work to meet deadlines; 
•Flexibility to support and collaborate with a global team and occasionally participate in conference calls outside of normal working hours 

Experience and education: 
•1-3 years of progressive business analysis experience supporting large size and critical projects. 
•Strong computer proficiency, specifically with MS Office, Excel and Visio 
•Proven ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, using English

Description:

Position: Marketing Program Analyst Duration: 4 Months Location: CA-Mississauga Rate: $22.00/h Temp Experience: First Level University degree plus 1+ years in program management roles or in like roles/businesses. Demonstrates or has capability to learn an in-depth understanding of key Services, operational policies, processes and methodologies applicable to program or short term project management. Strong communications skills. Project management skills and methods. Marketing experience or background in a technology sales in a commercial or retail environment would be helpful in this role. Primary Responsibilities: Commercial and Consumer Marketing Program Management responsibilities. Employee works closely with HP Category Business Managers, Business Development Managers and the Sales team to create, manage and execute Commercial and Retail LaserJet promotional offers to end-user customers and 2nd tier partners.  Applies developed subject matter knowledge of operational processes and partner requirements to solve common and moderately complex program business issues within established guidelines and recommends appropriate alternatives. Manages Instant Rebate programs, Retail contract log sheets, On-line programs, and other relates duties relating to the marketing departments. Provides support on return on investment calculations in order that requires a review the historical account performance and reports to management.  Secondary duties: Report and process compliance recycling fees on behalf of HPE and HPI.  Exercises independent judgment within generally defined policies and practices to identify and select a solution. Ability to handle most unique situations. May seek advice in order to make decisions on complex business issues.  Analytical and financial skills (accounting) would be very helpful, with a very strong understanding of Excel, as the tool of choice for calculating and managing programs. Excellent organization and time management skills.

Job Title: Service Developer
6 month contract       Downtown Toronto

MUST HAVES

Java – Extensive Java Development Experience, Should be able to develop the services containing the business logic, which will be consumed by PHP scripts running at front end
SDLC- Code Review, Unit Testing and Performance testing.
Back end development experience
both developer and support
defect management - , Initiate the Investigation for Incidents, Provide fixes and manage the defects from Development to Production.
Production Support –Provide Support of web services.
Computer Science or IT - Education
Should be able to work flexible hours and provide support during weekends and after business hours.

NICE TO HAVES
JBOSS
.NET
J2ME
Financial experience
iOS / Android

Job title：Project Manager

Must have strong experience with IT Risk Projects

(Risk) Data Management experience (Big Data)

Methodology – preference for Agile but will consider Waterfall

Experience managing several projects at once

Experience dealing with all levels of a project -

Providing executive dashboards, metrics and reporting

·         Successful candidate will work under the supervision of Business Intelligence Manager working with Revenue Assurance team and in some cases third-party resources to develop new module, support, maintain and enhance an in-house developed application.

·         Responsible for data consolidation, data analysis and management reporting.

·         Develop complex reports using relational databases and Excel spreadsheets based upon user requirements.

·         Provides support to end users by collecting and analyzing data and reporting results.

·         Builds, tests, implements and maintains reports.

·         Gathers and documents requirements for new and updated reports and systems

Critical Qualifications

·         3-5 years development experience with SQL, VB, VBA, MS Access, SQL Server  and Tableau

·         Expert knowledge on MS Excel

·         Knowledge of Visual Studio 2008 and higher

·         3-5 years experience in application and development related functions (analysis, coding, ...)

·         University or College degree in computer sciences or relevant experience in equivalent domain

·         Team player with excellent organization and interpersonal skills

·         Ability to manage workload autonomously and establish the right priorities related with Business needs

·         Advanced analytical skills, able to work in an environment with many unknown parameters

·         Excellent communication skills, able to synthesize and present information in business terms

·         Depth of technical acumen is required to be able to translate business requirements into technical queries and vice versa

Preferred Qualifications

·         Knowledge of SAS environment and programming language

·         Experience with Bell billing, ordering and provisioning systems is highly desirable. Preference will be given to candidates with knowledge of Bell data through previous engagements

•Strong oral and written communication skills
•Extensive experience with MS Office Suite – advanced skills with Excel and experience with MS Access is an asset
•Macro and VBA skills are an asset but not required
•Experience with Oracle iProcurement and/or Oracle Discoverer is an asset
•Experience with Ariba (Spend Visibility, Contract Management or eSourcing) or similar is a strong asset
•Experience with Hiperos or similar (Third Party Risk Tool) is an asset
•Experience with Lean Management principles is an asset
•Ability to independently lead small projects
•Ability to work independently and to exercise judgment
•Proven time management skills, multi-tasking and the ability to successfully handle multiple project priorities in a fast paced environment

6 months, There is a high possibility of extension.

POSITION: Hiring manager is looking for a front-end developer (.NET) who will be brought in to work on projects within Direct Investment such as online brokerage related projects).

- 3 years of recent front-end development experience,

- recent front-end framework experience ( JQUERY, bootstrap, AngularJS),

- cross-browser development experience,

- clear communication skills( ability to interact with colleagues, stakeholders in a clear and effective manner).

Title：Web Developer   6 months
Ideal Candidate – Motivated intermediate developer willing to learn and work on all aspects of delivering a Web 2.0 Single Page Application from the ground up. You should be confident researching and working independently; implementing new technologies with little support
 Required Skills & Knowledge
·         1-2 years of experience with web application development (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript) and REST service development (AJAX, JSON, REST)
·         1-2 years of hands-on experience with AngularJS front-end development
·         Experience with Databases and SQL
·         Strong grasp of software engineering principles