Junior Systems Analyst

Yazoo Recruitment; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Yazoo Recruitment in Cape Town is seeking a Junior Systems Analyst with a relevant Bachelors Degree and 1-2 years of experience in the Financial Services industry to analyse system behaviour and understanding functionality including instrument valuations and related calculations for an Asset Management firm based in Constantia.

Key duties include daily monitoring of system health, ensuring data integrity, testing instrument types, and coordinating changes with IT and vendor teams to support

Qualifications

• Degree – BCom / BBusSci / BSc with investments/finance focus
• 1–2 years’ Systems Analyst experience
• Exposure to programming or scripting
• Proven ability to solve complex problems
• Experience improving IT systems via analysing system behaviour
• Trading systems experience preferred
• Unit trust accounting knowledge advantageous
• Financial data analysis skills advantageous
• Knowledge of market instruments including Fixed Income advantageous

Responsibilities

• Daily monitoring of overall system health
• Monitor and improve daily system controls
• Monitor and ensure business and market data integrity
• Source and manage new data integration requirements from business users
• Test new instrument types to ensure end-to-end system integrity
• Test and recreate system calculations to validate correct functioning
• Implement configuration changes requested by business users that impact application views and behaviour
• Identify process improvement opportunities
• Work with the Vendor and IT implementation teams to implement change

Skills

Programming exposure

Problem solving

IT system analysis

Trading systems experience

Unit trust accounting knowledge

Financial data analysis

Market instruments knowledge

Instrument valuations

Education

BCom / BBusSci / BSc (Investments, Mathematics, Finance or Accounting)

Job description

Junior Systems Analyst job vacancy in Cape Town.

Systems Analyst with a relevant Bachelors Degree and at least 1-2 years’ experience in the Financial Services Industry, preferably in the Investment Management environment, required to be responsible for analysing the system behaviour and understanding the system functionality including instrument valuations and related financial calculations, system support, configuration and health of the system, for an Asset Management Company based in Constantia.

Minimum requirements:

• Relevant degree – BCom / BBusSci / BSc (Investments, Mathematics, Finance or Accounting) essential
• 1-2 years’ relevant experience as a Systems Analyst essential
• Exposure to programming or scripting required
• Proven ability to solve complex problems
• Experience improving IT systems and processes through analysing system behaviour required
• Experience with trading systems preferred
• Experience with unit trust fund accounting system advantageous
• Financial data analysis skills advantageous
• Knowledge of market instruments, including Fixed Income, and processes advantageous

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Daily monitoring of overall system health
• Monitor and improve daily system controls
• Monitor and ensure business and market data integrity
• Source and manage new data integration requirements from business users
• Test new instrument types to ensure end to end system integrity
• Test and recreate system calculations to validate correct functioning
• Implement configuration changes requested by business users that impact application views and behaviour
• Identify process improvement opportunities
• Work with the Vendor and IT implementation teams to implement change