SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST / ICON REPORT WRITER recruitment
The successful candidate will report into the local ICON (Investment Accounting Platform) Projects team however task management will be from the Money Market Project Manager. They will have the ability to execute the role with a high level of autonomy, whilst being mindful of when to seek guidance and approval. Some business travel may be required in the execution of the role.
Core Responsibilities:
- To work as part of a project team on the Money Market project to define, build and test a new operating model for the support of Money Market Instruments on the Icon accounting system.
- To develop and maintain data imports/exports, reports, interfaces and small scale applications which support the delivery of the overall Money Markets project.
- Analyse requirements, document and agree specifications, perform development and unit testing, and implement in collaboration with the project team.
- Compose full system documentation, change documentation, and provide input to User/Procedure Documentation.
- Provide ad-hoc analysis and reporting, and actively contribute expertise and knowledge, to facilitate change and guide development direction within projects.
- Assist with the development of the Cost Sheet changes to support the Money Markets funds pricing.
- Customers / Stakeholders:
- Internal Fund Services Operational departments, Product Management, Relationship/Account Management, External Clients.
- Leadership and Teamwork:
- Working within a team environment but mainly solely responsible for individual projects.
- Some element of Leadership of small project-oriented tasks may be required.
- Operational Effectiveness and Control:
- For individual output, maintaining an excellent level of throughput, and ensuring quality standards are maintained.
- Following established best-practice in development, testing and any management responsibilities, and ensuring process, product and systems efficiency is positively impacted.
- Designing the optimal solution to a given requirement, balancing effort versus outcome whereby the return on investment remains high (80/20 rule).
- Acquiring and Maintaining an excellent working knowledge of the various Core Systems, tools and techniques employed.
- Acquiring and Maintaining an excellent working knowledge of the business,product, industry initiatives and environment.
- Future-Proofing the team output, aligning with Product Direction, and maintaining efficiency by minimising the resource impact of change.
Core Skills:
- Excellent problem solving skills, and the ability to identify multiple possible approaches and assess their relative cost/benefit.
- Good communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills.
- Positive attitude, self-motivating, and proactive.
Core Requirements:
- Detailed knowledge of the ICON accounting system provided by Linedata.
- Practical experience/knowledge of the Securities industry, and preferably knowledge of the
- Fund Services/TPA business in particular.
- Proven experience in full lifecycle development roles, with experience of RAD or other fast delivery methodologies/environments.
- Proven development experience/skill with Icon Report Writer at expert level is highly desirable,
- Proven experience in analysis, design, testing and release management.
- Proven abilities in the soft-skill sphere especially around time-management, documentation and requirements gathering.
- Structured approach to development planning and progress reporting, defect resolution/tracking and risk/issues management.
- Entitled to work in the UK.
Core-Asset Consulting offer specialist recruitment services to the Investment Banking, Financial Services, Secretarial Support, and Human Resources markets across Scotland.
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January 3, 2012
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