This is an exciting opportunity to join a high profile consultancy firm in the alternative investments industry. Founded in 1994 my client advises over 270 investors, including institutional investors, financial intermediaries and family offices, on over $450 billion in alternative investments across the liquidity spectrum. It specialises in Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Real Assets, Real Estate and Dynamic Beta.
Duties:
- Research, design, develop and document new software systems and components in cooperation with business users
- Communicate with business users on the development needs for their business units
- Estimate the development effort (time) for requests and manage the delivery of tasks accepted
- Conduct testing and fault finding within the internal systems and suggest and implement improvements when issues are found
- Design and develop the internal systems to minimize the risk of data loss or security breach
- Manage the release and deployment of the internal systems (monthly) with full testing completed in advance of implementation of new release
- Cooperate with first line support to answer user queries and fix defects in the system, as well as estimating the effort to fix defects and implement new functionality
- Support the technical writer to produce user and operation documentation
- Pro-actively seek ways to improve efficiencies and the user experience
- Pro-actively seek ways to improve the maintainability and resilience of the internal systems
- Investigate new technologies and flag to Head of IT when applicable to the internal systems
- Adhoc projects upon request by the Head of IT
Requirements
- Post-graduate degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Strong ability to multi-task and set priorities
- Strong programming skills
- Travel
- Work outside of normal business hours – coinciding with systems releases or urgent bug fixes
- Comply with terms of Compliance Manuals
- Attend company events upon request
Benefits & Perks:
- Discretionary bonus
- Private medical insurance
- Wellness program (fitness tracking device, classes, health snacks)
- Professional development support
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Tax-efficient benefits (cycle to work, season ticket loan)
- Workplace pension scheme.
To apply for this job email your details to careers@cameronpink.com.