INVESTMENT SYSTEMS ANALYST recruitment
The role holder will report into the Team Management structure. The successful candidate will have the ability to execute the role under limited supervision, seeking guidance and approval at significant change within a project.
Core Responsibilities:
- To develop and maintain data imports/exports, reports, interfaces and small scale applications which contribute to the optimisation of the Fund Services business processes through automation of manual procedures, and maximise the efficient business usage of the Fund Services core systems.
- Differentiate the Fund Services Business, allowing new clients to experience minimised change when transitioning from their previous service-provider, and maximise the efficient client usage of the Fund Services core systems and resources.
- Analyse requirements, document and agree specifications, perform development and unit testing, and implement in collaboration with the Business.
- Compose full system documentation, change documentation, and provide input to User/Procedure Documentation.
- Provide support for internally developed facilities, and assist with investigation and resolution of support issues with Core Vendor Systems.
- Actively control scope-change and escalate as appropriate to ensure delivery against agreed targets/functionality.
Core Skills:
- Excellent problem solving skills, and the ability to identify multiple possible approaches and assess their relative cost/benefit.
- Excellent communication (both verbal and written) and interpersonal skills at all levels.
- Positive attitude, self-motivating, and proactive.
- Strong analytical capability and ability to understand the workings and interrelationships of complex systems.
Core Requirements:
- Preferably educated to degree level or equivalent, IT-related degree desirable.
- Experience in full lifecycle development roles, with experience of RAD or other fast delivery methodologies/environments desirable.
- Relevant experience, with a proven past role in an Investment Administration environment desirable.
- Evident broad-based technical knowledge from a variety of environments and roles highly desirable.
- Strong technical knowledge and development track record in most of these tools: MS Access, Crystal Reports, Business Objects, SQL Server.
- Knowledge of other database, report-writing and development toolsets an advantage.
- Experience of Report Writing within bespoke environments/applications, experience of ETL tools highly desirable.
- Good understanding of application and database design principles.
- Proven experience in analysis, design, testing and release management.
- Proven abilities in the soft-skill sphere especially around time-management, documentation and requirements.
Core-Asset Consulting offer specialist recruitment services to the Investment Banking, Financial Services, Secretarial Support, and Human Resources markets across Scotland.
"People are the core asset of every business"
July 19, 2012
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