Position Description:



This team is responsible for supporting and maintaining a straight-through trade processing system, utilized by the Alternative & Quantitative Investment and Hedge Fund Administration groups of Global Asset Management. This role is for a first-line Support Analyst for this group. The role requires an individual who is self-motivated, can thrive and multi-task in a fast-pace environment and can meet high customer expectations. This will be 3rd shift and a very long term contract. Great advancement opportunities with this client!



Responsibilities include:



First-line support of trading and back-office systems.



Risk assessment and prioritization of production problems.



Escalation of persistent or critical problems to development teams and senior management.



Proactive identification of risk areas.



Ad-hoc reports/extracts.



Impact analysis and requirements gathering.



UAT and regression testing.



Software deployment/integration.






Experience: Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:



Excellent communication skills



Exceptional problem solving skills



Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly-driven environment



UNIX and scripting experience (Perl, C Shell, and Bourne shell)



Relational database experience (Sybase/Oracle)



HTML/Web or Java skills desirable



Computer science or Finance related degree is preferred



Application support experience is a plus



The role requires an individual who is self-motivated, can thrive and multi-task in a fast-pace environment and can meet high customer expectations.

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