Description
ThinkFolio Technical Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Business Analyst for the Front Office investment and trading platforms, including interfacing with portfolio managers and traders daily
- Troubleshooting business issues, solving problems to provide solutions to diverse investment teams and the product aligned trading desks
- Ownership and accountability for the operation, monitoring and integrity of the technology platform
- Escalation support for the members of the team located in other regions including evenings and weekends on a rotational basis
- Ownership and participation in the Incident and problem management processes, being accountable for resolution, root cause analysis and technology and business reporting and communication.
- Providing oversight for the stability of the production environment within the change management process ensuring policies are enforced and adhered to
- Relationship management internally with the investment teams, trading desks, operations teams, legal, audit, risk and compliance teams.
- Navigate the wider technology organization; build relationships to manage the team's agenda with our critical technology partners.
- Interface with external vendors and their technical support and development organizations ensuring focus to resolution of issues and strategic enhancements.
- Proactively identify improvements and address them through independent thinking within a consensus driven team.
Essential:
- Strong experience in financial services with a focus in asset management
- Strong experience in technology
- Previous experience having used and supported ThinkFolio
- Detailed knowledge of the trading life cycle, with a focus on Front Office technology
- In depth knowledge of portfolio management and trading systems throughout the full application stack, infrastructure to GUI
- Understanding of the Asset Management Business with a detailed knowledge of Front Office workflows and business processes.
- Multi Asset class product knowledge
- Proven track record in project management, project delivery
- Prior experience in technology service delivery teams
- Experience of working within a global organization effectively leveraging cross regional teams
- Technical fluency in a variety of technologies including industry leading asset management vendor applications
- Knowledge of operating systems: UNIX, Windows, and Linux.
- Experience with the use and capabilities of Enterprise scheduling/workflow software. Experience with Autosys and/or Control M preferred.
- Advanced SQL knowledge on SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase databases.
- PERL, UNIX, and Windows Scripting experience.
- Experience with the use and capabilities of ETL software.
- Object Oriented development language knowledge preferably Java
ITHR Group is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. ITHR Group is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.