At 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 Application Analyst, you will report to the Dimension Support Manager For Front Office & Trading, and you will be part of AXA IM - Technology Transversal Products
The Technology department provides applications and technical services support and projects delivery to the AXA Investment Managers' business worldwide. Its mission is to support Business through project and support teams.
The candidate will be an Application Analyst within the technology team dedicated to Simcorp Front Office Support. This team maintains and improves IT tools used by Fund managers and Traders.
Simcorp Front Office Support team has a support presence in the following locations Paris, London, Hong Kong, and the US.
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The Application Analyst will be responsible for supporting demanding business users. So, a candidate who enjoys working with others in a fast-paced environment will be suitable for this position.
We are looking for someone who wants to work in a front office support environment, experiences that are valuable include:
1. Working in a support environment where facing off directly to end users is valued
2. A strong technology background working with service logs, dashboards, and automation tools
3. Provide functional process and technical support on OMS/EMS systems
4. Undertake daily operational checks, investigate, and resolve any problems identified.
5. Follow strictly the procedures to send service requests to the editor and to escalate issues
6. Functional requirements gathering from the front, middle and back-office investment management system users
7. Maintain market awareness and propose new solutions/approaches to the business, building on a foundational knowledge of the process and data flows in use
8. Answer, evaluate and prioritize iing 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
9. Collaborate with third party vendors as required, in accordance with agreed standards and procedures
10. Build credible, trusted advisor relationships with the business and assist with issues as they arise, logging and tracking them in call logging tools.
11. Ensure appropriate change management processes are implemented to benefit users
12. Study and propose tactical solutions as required
13. Produce user and functional procedure guides
14. municate with the users on system/module availability / future evolutions using the standard templates
15. Provide training to clients when processes change, or new functionality bes available
16. Provide expertise in technical/functional analysis to drive business process change
17. Ensurepliance with all information security policies and proactively look for advice for new scenario as they arise
18. Implement and operate regular end user activity monitoring for the given application
19. Participate actively on the yearly upgrade of SimCorp Dimension and on any patch release (qualification, regression tests, etc...)
20. Assist the project managers in the context of projects impacting SimCorp Dimension on which their
21. Analyse existing processes
22. Gather business requirements
23. Write functional specifications
24. Contribute to the testing phase for new versions and/or new tools
25. This role will involve direct interaction with Fund Managers, Traders, and financial analyst
This role will involve direct interaction with Fund Managers, Traders, and financial analysts
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A similar experience in the same type of position would be a plus
Your knowledges and skills
Technical skills:
• Relevant industry qualification or degree (Finance/ Technology)
• Experience in the financial industry, ideally in asset management, Equities, Fixed Ie
• 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
• Goodmunication 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.
Personal skills:
• Good judgment and ability identify issues and escalate them as appropriate
• Pragmatic andmon-sense approach to solving business problems
• Self-starter with ability to multi-task
• Ability to build business relationships
• Proactive - provides effective solutions
• Capacity to influence and convince
• Strong ethical values
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We protect and advise our clients at every stage of their lives, offering products and services that meet their needs in the areas of insurance, personal protection, savings and asset management.
Our mission: to act for human progress by protecting what matters
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