Application Support Analyst

The Role

Objective of the Role:

The purpose of the role is to work collaboratively within your team and across other teams in the business to deliver exceptional customer experiences. The focus would be to support the GIP applications with supports from other teams, and in line with best ITIL and ITSM practices, and to ensure systems are Always on, Always Secure

Key Responsibilities:

• To work with the proposition, operations, change and development teams to assist in solving business and system issues and designing business solutions to deliver superior customer experiences and a low ‘cost to serve’ operation.
• Provide proactive, on-going support to cross functional teams and team members to support a mature working environment, including assisting with production support and migration related tasks and issues when required.
• Build relationships and collaborate with key stakeholders to build trust that will help to ensure deliverables stay on track, especially linking Operations and IT teams together.
• Contribute to the evaluation and improvement of the strategic and operational elements of the IT Support Process
• Perform daily health checks to ensure application related issues are pro-actively identified and addressed
• Working within the ITIL ITSM framework, including the logging and response to incidents, problems, and changes.
• Incident investigation, troubleshooting and resolution.
• Liaising with Infrastructure and Application partners to log, manage and resolve queries.
• Work closely with the Infrastructure teams to continuously improve the stability in this environment
• Communicating with teams in the business to notify of system incidents and resolution thereof.
• Protect and ensure the stability of the operational systems as well as maintain the integrity of the data they contain.
• Proactively suggest ways of improving system stability, availability, performance, and reliability.
• Work independently on escalated issues.
• Ownership of the support “how-to” knowledge base.
• Out of hours availability to manage high priority incidents, issues, and support on Infrastructure and Application maintenance and patching
• Monitoring of web usage and outages using monitoring tools and infrastructure dashboards
• Work with IT team to ensure frontend system security is always maintained
• Assist in maintaining the digital principles of the business
• Quick response to add-hoc requests, and important deliverables to clients.

Skills and Experience

Minimum Qualifications Required:

• Relevant Commerce degree in IT, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Investment Management or Business Management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Higher grade maths (or equivalent) passed with a B average.
• Multilingual (Advantageous).
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a digital business, working on front end systems
• ITIL/COBIT qualification

Experience:

• At least 5 years of Application support experience in a Wealth Management/LISP/Asset Management business
• Experience in delivering exceptional customer service
• Experience in solving complex problems for customers (internal or external), applying system thinking principles.
• Experience in building successful relationships and working collaboratively across departmental teams
• Experience at working in a fast paced, proactive and delivery focused environment
• Experience in collaborating with third party administrators and Global vendors
• Working experience on supporting front end applications and adviser and client journeys
• Familiar with Agile project methodology and JIRA Service Desk processes.

Knowledge Required:

A successful candidate will show:

• A deep understanding of investment and life products (to subject matter expert level) in order to talk about investments confidently.
• An understanding of financial services regulation as it relates to investment platform providers.
• An in depth understanding of the trading and payment cycle of a Platform business.
• An in depth understanding of providing solutions and experiences which delights financial advisers.
• A clear understanding of how an adviser’s business works.
• A clear understanding of the competitive landscape for our platform.
• A strong understanding of change management processes.
• Ability to work systematically with exceptional attention to detail.
• Great communication skills both written and verbal
• A working understanding of Application Infrastructure and Integration concepts
• Exposure to Agile and DevOps practice

Competencies

Communicating with Impact: Communicates effectively in both the written and verbal format delivering clear, succinct messages.

Customer Service: Commits to achieving high quality results and provides a prompt, suitable and personalised service to customer’s that meets their needs. Take personal accountability for delivery.

Driving for Excellence: Approaches work in an orderly and systematic manner to ensure the achievement of high quality customer service.

Analytical Thinking: Understands a situation or problem by breaking it into smaller pieces and tracing the implications of a situation in a step by step way.

Entrepreneurial and Commercial Thinking: Understands the economic environment and able to make well informed business decisions.

People Skills: The ability to influence a wide range of diverse individuals and groups positively.

Resilience: Responds to stressful situations in a calm and proactive manner and keeps self and team focused on balancing personal energy with business result.

Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperates with others to accomplish common goals.

Persuading and Influencing: The capacity to persuade, convince and influence others for the purpose of achieving desired results.

Leading Change: Continually seeks and encourages others to see opportunities for new and innovative approaches to solving organisational problems.

Trust and Integrity: Shows sincerity, honesty and consistency in words and actions.