IT Application Support Analyst – 2 to 4 years’ experience

Description de la mission

We are currently recruiting for an IT Application Support Analyst to join the application support team for the Commodities-Indexed Transactions business (CIT) at a large international investment bank.
This business provides liquidity and market-making services across commodity markets to a large and diversified base of clients worldwide. Products include Base and Precious Metals, Oil, European and North American Power and Natural Gas, Coal, Emissions and Agricultural Commodities.
The support team works on the trading floor in close partnership with the business and its responsibility is to provide front-to-back production support for the CIT platform.
The succesful candidate will support the global commodities in house platform, critical for front-to-back functionality including pricing, risk management, market data sharing, p&l reporting, settlements, physical scheduling, trade confirmations and regulatory reporting.
Key daily tasks include:
Proactively monitoring the system
Configuring the system
Analysing and resolving production support technical and functional issues
Fielding questions from all CIT personnel including traders, marketers, risk managers, and middle office and keeping them informed of system issues and changes affecting them
Logging incidents
Advising the core development team of necessary bug fixes and enhancements
Participating in the first-line support rota, which includes an early shift for resolving overnight batch issues and an on-call system for overnight and weekend support. The rota allows those not engaging in first-line support to focus on more in-depth analysis.
Release management
This role requires strong problem-solving and communication skills. The analyst will engage directly with many different teams within the bank including trading, sales, middle office, back office, confirmations, market risk and accounting. Therefore, the ability to pick up diverse product and process knowledge will be critical.
Shift work: 7.30-5/8.30-6/10.30-7.30
Full time Office attendance no working from home + weekend work (once a month / done from home)
Functional skills
Front to back process.
Knowledge on commodities/PNL/Pricing is a plus.
Technical skills
Intermediate level relational database and SQL skills are required.
Infrastructure – Windows infrastructure / servers – essential
Good knowledge of script languages (Powershell …) and Windows environment.
Python or other programming skills is nice to have
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