eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Markit

• Location

  USA-NY-White Plains

• Compensation

  Commensurate with experience

• Position Type

  Employee

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  26 Sep 2008

• eFC Ref no

  434540

The Company

Markit is a financial information services company with over 1,000 employees in Europe, North America and Asia.  Over 1,000 financial institutions use our independent services to manage risk, improve operational efficiency and meet regulatory requirements.

Duties and Accountabilities

• Logging and owning calls through to resolution, on the Support and Change Management system, liaising with Development, Infrastructure and Account Managers.
• System Administration on all environments (Live, UAT, Training and T&H) following strict security and audit guidelines.
• Providing data and support to all types of clients, including providing daily update information to the Brokers to ensure maximum usage of the system.
• Answering all queries from general “How do I?” through to specific trade detail queries.
• Monitoring client connectivity and working as liaison between customer and technical services and other Third Party providers when any issues arise.
• Supporting internal testing and client UAT testing cycles, production upgrades, recording and testing faults.
• Optimizing trade volumes by proactively monitoring and trouble shooting potential trade queries, connectivity issues.
• Using Change Management (in conjunction with Head of Client Data Services) to monitor and maintain client service including planned outages and amending specific private data.
• Supporting the Testing team by performing functional test scripts.
• Ensuring they keep up to date with new developments and future functionality.
• Ensuring they actively increase their knowledge of the products that SwapsWire support, current and future.
• Other ad hoc projects as they arise.

Business Competencies

• Any previous banking experience and/or basic knowledge of the derivatives market
• Any exposure to Programming or scripting languages – VB, VBA, Java, C++, Perl, HTML, XML, SQL.
• A basic understanding of computer networks – Hubs, routers, IP addresses.

Personal Competencies

• 2:2 (or equivalent) or higher degree in IT or Finance related subject
• A good knowledge of Microsoft Office especially Excel, Word and Outlook.
• Exposure to a customer service environment of some kind.
• A willingness and ability to learn quickly.
• A strong and confident personality.

The Contact

Interested applicants should send their CV and a covering letter to careers.na@markit.com citing "Associate/Vice President, Customer Services Support Analyst" in the subject line.