Service Desk Analyst - #34612

Manila Recruitment; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Service Desk Analyst based in the City of London. In this role, you'll manage customer inquiries regarding circuit troubles and network availability, while enhancing service quality with proactive and preventive maintenance. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's Degree, 2-3 years of experience, and strong communication skills. Certifications like CCNA and ITIL are advantageous.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience as a Service Desk Analyst.
• Basic networking experience.
• Ability to stay self-motivated and work independently.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage customer trouble tickets effectively.
• Monitor live service status and historical events.
• Provide proactive maintenance and address issues before they escalate.
• Produce reports related to service incidents.

Skills

Customer service

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Technical troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree or relevant experience

Tools

Service desk tools

Ticketing tools

HubSpot

Salesforce

Job description

Overview

As a Service Desk Analyst, you will also support other team members in training, reviewing technical bulletins and collaboration. You will perform a critical function within the network repair process and can ultimately impact the client’s ability to meet network availability and time-to-repair commitments made to the customers.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Customer Trouble management: Accept customer phone calls/emails for circuit troubles, isolate fault location, and notify about repair progress as required. Inquire from diverse vendors and provide regular updates to the customer on circuit status.
• Equipment monitoring: Check live service status and able to retrieve historical events
• Workload Management: Ensure all appropriate tickets are being captured. Actively monitor open issues till remediated. Responsible for alarm response and trouble ticket assignment, resolving open trouble tickets, pursuing resolution to closure on all open tickets
• Technical Escalation: Responsible for supporting and escalating to next level of technical support as necessary
• Proactive and Preventive Maintenance: Proactively seeking and identifying potential network problems/trends and addressing these issues before becoming service affecting events
• Professionally manage difficult and/or emotional customer situations
• Respond promptly to customer needs
• Solicit customer feedback to continually improve service
• Produce reports and documentation to highlight service incidents

Qualifications

• A minimum of 2-3 years’ experience being a Service Desk Analyst
• Bachelor’s Degree or relevant experience
• Willing to learn about fiber optic technologies
• Basic networking experience
• Demonstrable ability to think around issues and look at the wider picture to provide solutions through a variety of problem-solving techniques
• Drive, self-motivation, and ability to work under own initiative
• Experience of working accurately and confidently with service desk tools
• Experience in delivering a high level of customer service.
• Experience in handling customer escalation and high-priority support issues
• Demonstrates strong analytical skills
• Proven ability to work efficiently in a high-pressure environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English to effectively collaborate with foreign counterparts
• Prefers someone with experience doing a networking function, someone with broad understanding IP services.

Advantageous skills or nice-to-haves

• CCNA and ITIL Certifications
• HubSpot and/or similar tools experience
• Salesforce experience
• Experience in any ticketing tools, monitoring tools and data centre