Application Support Specialist – Equities recruitment

This role is within the Equities and Research Technology department that provides systems development, implementation and support services for the Equity, Investment Services and Real Estate asset classes.  This team supports Fund Managers, Research Analysts, Traders and supporting groups across Europe.

  Based in London, and working as part of the Equity and Research Technology production services team, you will be required to support a wide range of global and regional applications, utilised by the European investment management community.  Applications include both vendor and proprietary applications.  The team also supports a range of data feeds including benchmarks and market data feeds.  

This role is one of a “hands-on” application support position. 

The application support team are responsible for all second line application support issues for the equity business functions.  In addition, the team are responsible for production release testing, supporting disaster recovery testing, application service requests, some application configuration, and assisting with application monitoring alerts and integration testing application issue resolution.  The team are available during the working hours of their end users and in addition provide out of hours support for production release testing, which can be either during UK evenings or weekends.   

This role requires a high level of customer interaction and as such requires a confident individual who can effectively liaise with users at a wide range of levels.  

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

 You will need to be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience: 

 Given the nature of the role, you will need to possess excellent inter-personal and communication skills. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a blue chip organisation on a strategic programme.Please send your details in confidence to Maddy, maddy.nyman@nymanresourcing.com with a covering letter as to why you feel you are a suitable candidate. 

Please note, only apply if you have the required experience, are based in the UK and have a valid UK work permit.  We will not be able to reply to your application if you are not currently in the UK.