It Systems Analyst

Time left to apply End Date: April 7, (3 days left to apply) Job Requisition ID: R

Ashburton Investments is a new generation investment manager that offers investors access to more sources of return and more ways to manage risk.

In the institutional space in South Africa as well as our Global business, we pride ourselves on offering solutions to address clients' holistic balance sheet needs and to support business strategies in the reallocation of investment capital in the face of increasing regulatory pressures.

We see institutions as but not limited to, pension funds, long and short-term insurers, re-insurers, as well as medical aid schemes.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will be required to:

1. Liaise with Business Analysts, development teams, business users, project teams, and vendors to provide end-to-end production and project support for all applications in production to ensure the smooth running of day-to-day activities and to optimize the efficient performance of the applications and related processes.
2. Maintain close engagement with Bloomberg product support and Ashburton investment teams as well as master the end-to-end Bloomberg AIM ecosystem to help manage the daily production cycle.
3. Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders displaying excellent abilities to initiate dialogue, listen, advise, influence, and negotiate to achieve win-win outcomes.
4. Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress, manage expectations, and ensure stakeholders' requirements are delivered.
5. Preserve relationships despite airing conflicting views and seek mutual gains when addressing conflicts.
6. Anticipate consequences and adapt problem solving based on continual feedback.
7. Act speedily to resolve problems, queries, and complaints.
8. Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences.
9. Analyze the business need and current process and identify where there is waste or risk and where processes could be improved.
10. Understand how systems relate to each other and to other systems and processes in the bank.
11. Analyze and reconcile differences between different systems.
12. Recommend improvements and use influence to get stakeholder buy-in.
13. Physically log the request for change to the relevant development team and advise the stakeholder of its status and need for priority.
14. Follow up with the business to encourage them to push for priority.
15. Track user requests and incidents, identify commonalities and trends, and create reports to stakeholders that highlight trends, risks, and mitigating actions.
16. Support users with daily requests and incidents in line with agreed SLAs for responses and repairs.
17. Analyze root causes of system failures and resolve these in conjunction with relevant stakeholders.
18. Track user requests and incidents and perform trend analysis to identify where processes could be further improved.
19. Ensure training documentation is provided and readily available and if not, with the assistance of the subject matter expert, create documentation and facilitate handover to users and the IT Applications team.
20. Update documentation to enable cross-skilling, enhance knowledge sharing, and reduce key man dependencies.
21. Demonstrate pride in the organization's brand, services, and products by consistently delivering on the brand's promise.
22. Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained.
23. Stay relevant and up to date with legislations and new developments.
24. Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback.
25. Handle stress in ways that do not negatively impact others.
26. Plan and manage own workflow anticipating obstacles, juggling priorities, and following through on objectives within agreed time frames and according to quality standards.
27. Take ownership of personal career development leveraging formal and informal opportunities.

Minimum Requirements

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

1. Have completed a relevant bachelor's degree in information technology or equivalent.
2. Have at least 5 years' experience providing support on trading and portfolio management systems.
3. Are a certified administrator on any of the widely used trading systems.
4. Have intermediate Microsoft SQL knowledge.

Opportunities

You will have access to:

1. Opportunities to network and collaborate.
2. Opportunities to innovate.

We can be a match if you:

Are curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough to.

Are obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it.

Have the ability to execute, prioritize, and problem solve in a fast-paced environment.

Possess excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Have knowledge of technology workflows, databases, and processes.

Are you interested to take the step?

We look forward to engaging with you further.

Apply now!

Job Details: Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below. All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group's Employment Equity plan.

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