In this role you will be required to 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 optimise the efficient performance of the applications and related processes.
You will be required to 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.
Are you someone who can:
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.
Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress manage expectations and ensure stakeholders requirements are delivered.
Preserve relationships despite airing conflicting views and seeks mutual gains when addressing conflicts.
Anticipate consequences and adapts problem solving based on continual feedback.
Act speedily to resolve problems queries and complaints.
Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences.
Analyse the business need and current process and identify where there is waste or risk and where processes could be improved.
Understand how systems relate to each other and to other systems and processes in the bank.
Analyse and reconcile differences between different systems.
Recommend improvements and use influence to get stakeholder buy-in
Physically log the request for change to the relevant development team and advise the stakeholder of its status and need for priority.
Follow up with the business to encourage them to push for priority.
Track user requests and incidents identify commonalities and trends and create reports to stakeholders that highlight trends risks and mitigating actions.
Support users with daily requests and incidents in line with agreed SLAs for responses and repairs.
Analyse root causes of system failures and resolve these in conjunction with relevant stakeholders.
Track user requests and incidents and perform trend analysis to identify where processes could be further improved.
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.
Update documentation to enable cross-skilling, enhance knowledge sharing and reduce key man dependencies.
Demonstrate pride in the organisations brand services and products by consistently delivering on the brands promise.
Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained.
Stay relevant and up to date with legislations and new developments.
Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback.
Handle stress in ways that do not negatively impact others.
Plan and manage own workflow anticipating obstacles juggling priorities and following through on objectives within agreed time frames and according to quality standards.
Take ownership of personal career development leveraging formal and informal opportunities
You will be an ideal candidate if you:
Have completed a relevant bachelor's degree in information technology or equivalent
Have at least 5 years' experience providing support on trading and portfolio management systems
Are a certified administrator on any of the widely used trading systems
Intermediate Microsoft SQL knowledge.
You will have access to:
Opportunities to collaborate and network with highly skilled investment, technology, and vendor partners across the Ashburton and broader FirstRand ecosystem.
A challenging, fastÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂpaced environment where you will work on critical trading and portfolio management platforms that directly support investment decisionÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂmaking.
Opportunities to innovate and influence, contributing to continuous improvement of systems, processes, and the endÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂtoÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂend production support model.
Exposure to industryÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂleading trading and investment platforms (including Bloomberg AIM), enabling you to deepen your technical expertise and system mastery.
Ongoing learning and development opportunities to support your professional growth and help you stay relevant in a rapidly evolving technology landscape.