Description
Bosshard & Partner is looking with Mandate 2694 for an IT Application Manager OBS-Tax (f/m)Project environment
A global Swiss bank is looking for an in-house lead as IT Application Owner for the 3rd party application OBS-Tax. The candidate would be responsible for the functional- and performance coherence of the embedded application regarding enhancement projects and Run-the-bank processes. OBS-Tax is a tax calculation core used for the Swiss withholding tax agreements with Austria and Great Britain and for the Austrian Onshore withholding tax.
Tasks
• Supervision of production support processes.
• Responsible for the incident-, change-, release-, and Problem management processes.
• Defect analyzing.
• Write IT specifications and requirements for 3rd party software vendor.
• GAP specification within existing documents.
• End user- and second level support.
• Member of implementation projects.
• Track 3rd party vendor on deliverables.
• Analyze and specify customer business requirements.
• Analyze and specify technical requirements.
• Parameterization and customization of the application OBS-Tax.
• Contribute to change- and release management processes.
• System test of new functionality.
• Documentation (Operation manual).
Requirements
Absolutely necessary
• University degree or similar education preferably in information technology or information management.
• Experience in leading small sized IT-teams.
• Able to specify and review 3rd Party product requirements.
• Good Knowledge of financial instruments (Bonds, Funds, FX, TOFF...).
• Knowledge of banking industry.
Advantage
• Track record as IT Application Owner/Lead within a financial Institute or as IT-PL.
• Sound know how in transaction banking processes.
• Knowledge about withholding taxing processes.
• Technical knowledge about Databases (Oracle) / Unix / Linux.
• Experience as IT specialist in the financial industry for at least 6 years.
Soft skills
• very good German and English (w/s).
• Somebody down to earth. responsibly, distinctive analytical thinking, well structured, solution-oriented, autonomous, propulsive, proactive, flexible, able to work under pressure, communicative, insistent.
Workload: 100%
Start Date: ASAP
End Date: 03.04.15
Workplace: Zürich
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