Description
Brickendon Consulting are engaged with several banking institutions to provide large teams delivering Data Governance Change and Macro Remediation through VBA Development. As a result, we are looking to hire Excel Macro Developers to join our Dublin based consulting teams.
About Brickendon Consulting
Brickendon Consulting is a rapidly growing Transformational Consulting firm that provides solutions to Global Banks and Asset Managers. The company was established in 2010 by 2 partners, one of which is our CEO, Chris Burke, and since we have grown to over 100 people with a target to double in size over the next 1-2 years.
Key Responsibilities
The successful candidate will join our Digital Practice as a Senior Consultant. They will work as part of a Brickendon Consulting team to drive Practice thought leadership and deliver Technical Transformation engagements on-site with our Banking clients.
There will be infrequent travel from your base office in Dublin to London, Luxembourg and Poland as part of this long-term programme. All travel expenses will be covered by Brickendon Consulting.
An overview of responsibilities:
- Focus on macro remediation duties and manage your relationship with the business user
- Work with business users to develop and enhance systems/macro based applications.
- Developing and maintaining automated solutions to business and operational problems
- Work to understand the data and database schema held within associated systems and macro based applications to enable to lead data migrations to other systems
- Develop macros, databases and end-user applications to allow for bulk processing and enhancement of process controls
- Design and develop VBA application using the Best practices.
- Participate with team in designing conceptual model and working model and ensure consistency in architecture and design/code practice.
- Perform data operations in SQL server.
- Provide ongoing support and maintenance of existing applications.
- Design custom UI pages, SQL Server, exporting data to the Microsoft Excel file.
- Prepare Test Cases and perform n-unit tests in coordination with Business owners. Maintain the ability to test the applications before deploying it in production.
- Maintain Internal Control standards.
Essential Experience
The Senior Consultant will possess the following skills and experience;
Technical Skills:
- 1 - 5 years of experience in either VBA Excel and/or Access development in a RAD environment
- Must be fully versed in the Office object models specifically around Excel and/or Access
- Comfortable with ADO and integration with database, SQL Server and other data sources.
- Must understand system design and the most effective way to create valuable solution
- Must be flexible in approaches to development and coding best practices
- Other programming languages such .net, Java, C# etc. (desirable)
Personal Skills:
- Must have strong communication skills and proven ability in understanding business objectives and providing solutions accordingly.
- Must be smartly presented and have excellent client facing skills
- Team leader skills (desirable)
- Excellent time management skills
- The ability to focus on a specific business task for long periods of time
- Experience gained working within financial markets and Management Consultancy (desirable).
This will be a long-term contract hire to the business, based in Dublin.
Applicants with little or no notice period would be preferable.