APPLICATION SUPPORT (RESEARCH) recruitment

Working with investors, financial advisers and distributors around the world, they provide easy access to their investment funds to help people achieve their medium- to long-term investment and savings goals.

Responsibilities:

• support the research support manager in defining the operational support requirements for all new research systems being implemented by the research programme, this includes processes, monitoring, escalation
• second line support of all business line applications investigating problems through issue resolution
• issue resolution, workaround or impact analysis and escalation to internal support teams third party vendors
• analyse and resolve data issues working in partnership with the relevant business support unit
• work with Desktop Support and infrastructure functions to troubleshoot desktop performance issues
• support application testing for new releases maintenance fixes

Requirements:

• demonstrable experience of strong problem / issue resolution
• experience of incident, problem and change management cycles
• experience of system / change implementation
• ITIL Foundation
• demonstrable experience in the support of vendor provided applications
• working knowledge of the main providers of market data, including Bloomberg
• in-depth experience as a power user of productivity tools such as Microsoft Office
• proven experience in analysing, identifying ‘root cause’ and solving data related issues
• experience in top quality production monitoring tools (beyond based technologies and hardware, focussing on application alerts and predictive impact assessment), ideally HP OpenView

If you would like to apply for this role or find out more, please contact Alexander Hickling at Robert Walters on (852) 2103 5384 or alexander.hickling@robertwalters.com.hk quoting the Job Reference SRY/376820.