Real Estate Applications Support Analyst recruitment
Invesco are one of the UK's largest independent investment management organisations with over US$660 billion under management. We are a global organisation with offices in over 20 countries and over 7000 employees around the world.
We like to think our employees are best in class and we focus on rewarding employees on merit. The expectations are high but in return we put a great deal of effort into creating a first-class working environment. We consider that by working together we can achieve more. We treat one another with respect and value a collaborative environment. We welcome the different ideas, perspectives and expertise our employees bring to the company.
An opportunity has arisen within our Real Estate Application support team for an Applications Analyst. The IRE Applications Analyst will support the rollout of Invesco’s Real Estate systems, provide data-conversion support to the end-user community, training and documentation-deliverables.
Responsibilities:
• Ensure that the systems support business processes and controls
• Create technical specification documents to support development effort
• Provide end user training
• Carry out Functional testing and User Acceptance-testing
• Data-migration of both financial and non-financial data from a variety of other relational databases and flat-file data-sources
• Design and develop procedures and process manuals for the system
• Troubleshooting and issue-verification
• Provide regional system-administration support
• Coordinate with software vendor and IT team
• Assist the IRE IT Projects Team in the global roll out, implementation and delivery of systems projects
Experience required:
• Exposure to Property Management systems, ideally Yardi or MRI, Qube Global, Tramps, Propman, Timberline, etc.
• System implementation experience
• Basic accounting knowledge
• Experience of data-extraction and migration, preferably using ETL tools
• Knowledge of Real Estate Investment industry
• Outstanding analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication skills
Other desired attributes
• Commitment to high standards
• Ability to operate effectively in a changing environment
• Strong initiative and independent working style
• Entrepreneurial approach
• Confident decision making and ability to be proactive
Qualifications required:
Tertiary Qualifications in IT or business
Key relationships / interfaces:
Internal: Users in European finance- and asset management teams. Project teams engaged in IRE system-enhancement projects. Other regional Systems-administrators. Technical developers.
External: 3rd Party Suppliers of Property Management and Accounting services. Software Vendor account management team and consultants. Third party consultants.