AddressAt AXA IM our purpose, to act for human progress by investing for what matters, is central to every action we take as a business. As a responsible asset manager, we actively invest for the long-term to help our clients, our people and the world to prosper.
As a future Business Analyst, you will report to our Dimension Support Manager for Front Office & Trading and you will be part of the Technology - Engineering & Simcorp team.
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As a Business Analyst you will be primarily responsible for supporting the Simcorp Dimension platform and modules used by all Front office & Trading departments. This role will involve direct interaction with Fund Managers, Traders, and financial analysts across the front and middle office.
Your role and responsibilities will notably include:
1- Daily Follow-up
- Providing technical and business support on the SimCorp Dimension platform, addressing issues raised by front office users.
- Undertake daily operational checks, investigating and resolving any problems identified.
- Answer, evaluate and prioritize incoming telephone, voice mail, e-mail and in-person requests for assistance from users experiencing problems with investment systems and where required, implement relevant steps to prevent re-occurrence.
- Follow strictly the procedures to send service requests to the editor and to escalate issues.
2- Collaboration
- Functional requirements gathering from the front, middle and back-office investment management system users.
- Liaise with Technology squads (Product Owners and Product Managers) to implement long term solutions.
- Collaborate with third party vendors as required, in accordance with agreed standards and procedures.
3- Customer
- Build credible, trusted advisor relationships with the business and assist with issues as they arise, logging and tracking them in call logging tools.
- Communicate with the users on system/module availability / future evolutions using the standard templates.
- Provide training to clients when processes change, or new functionality becomes available.
- Implement and operate regular end user activity monitoring for the given application.
4- Process
- Ensure appropriate change management processes are implemented to benefit users.
- Study and propose tactical solutions as required.
- Contribute to business requirements gathering and write user stories.
- Produce user and functional procedure guides.
- Ensure compliance with all information security policies and proactively look for advice for new scenario as they arise.
5- Business Knowledge
- Good finance knowledge of multiple security types, equities, derivatives, fixed income and foreign exchange and an understanding of the full trade lifecycle from initialisation to settlement.
- Maintain market awareness and propose new solutions/approaches to the business, building on a foundational knowledge of the process and data flows in use.
- Provide expertise in technical/functional analysis to drive business process change.
6- Assist in the context of projects impacting SimCorp Dimension
- Analyse existing processes
- Gather business requirements.
- Write functional specifications.
- Contribute to the testing phase for new versions and/or new tools.
- Participate actively on the yearly upgrade of SimCorp Dimension and on any patch release (qualification, regression tests, etc.)
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SHARE your unique expertise
We Welcome Different Combinations Of Skills And Experiences.
Experience:
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience, preferably within the Asset Management industry
- Experience in the financial industry, ideally in asset management, Equities, Fixed Income
- Good understanding of regulatory requirements and their practical application
- Experience with buy side systems such as Simcorp Dimension, Thinkfolio, or other OMS/EMS/Compliance systems
- Previous experience of work in an Agile environment (Scrum / Kanban)
- A strong technology background working with service logs, dashboards, and automation tools.
- Ability to read and write SQL queries is desirable.
Technical skills
- Ability to research and implement procedures
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and mitigate problems
- Good understanding of regulatory requirements and their practical application
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Good communication skills, both oral and in writing, with the ability to work across different jurisdictions and with stakeholders across different parts of the firm
- Good language skills in English. French language skills would be a plus
- Ability to read and write SQL queries is desirable
Soft skills
- Good judgment and ability identify issues and escalate them as appropriate
- Good influencing and relationship building skills
- Pragmatic and common-sense approach to solving business problems
- Self-starter with ability to multi-task
- Ability to work under pressure and to manage and deliver to deadlines
- Highly driven and motivated with a can –do attitude and with a desire to drive change in the organization
- Ability to build business relationships
- Proactive – provides effective solutions
- Capacity to influence and convince
- Strong ethical values
- Ability to navigate complex/ changing environments
We would love to know more about you. Let’s connect! Send us your resume.
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