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• Company

  Michael Page International (Switzerland)

• Location

  Switzerland-Zurich

• Compensation

  Attraktives Gehaltspaket

• Position Type

  Employee

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  06 Jan 2009

• eFC Ref no

  480783

About our client
Our client is a very well known Zurich based "Private Family Office" Wealth Manager. Client interests are managed via a top level fund which asset allocates into a combination of internally and externally managed Fund of Funds, Private Equity, Fund of Private Equity and co-mingled listed and OTC instruments.

Job description
This new role will report to the IT manager and will have a wide remit supporting and delivering the full spectrum of investment management systems and projects.
The role will encompass the following duties :

• Project Management
• Technical application architecture
• Analysis (System, Process)
• Application Support
  
  Role Responsibilities:
• Business analysis (write up of business requirements) as required by projects.
• Liaison with users on daily support and application configuration requests. This will include both hands on application and data support.
• Resolution of any intra-day and overnight data load issues. An understanding of data transformation and scripting desirable.
• Prioritisation of user project requests, cost and time analysis and project management to completion. This may be directly or via external or vendor resources.
• Liaison with vendors on product issues, upgrades and enhancements
• Liaison with external backoffice and custodians on data issues and systems projects.
• Responsible for UAT and test environments and ensuring users adhere to best practice release policy. This includes sign off on releases, creating of test plans, Disaster recover impact etc.
• New user training on applications as required. Note: this will be supplemented by vendor training. 
  
   

Who we are looking for
The candidate will have minimum 5-7 years+ experience in financial markets specifically building and supporting front, middle and back office systems in a Private Equity, Hedge Fund or Fund of Hedge Fund environment.This should include trading, decision support and shadow accounting systems.

The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years hands on experience to at least two of the following:

• CRD (or other front office modelling and OMS solutions). FIX connectivity.
• Webfolio (or other FoHF system).
• Netage (or other Private Equity systems)
  One of :
• Performance systems
• Risk systems
  It is assumed that candidates will have an excellent understanding of investment management data and the investment management order lifecycle.
  
  Furthermore experienced in managing projects using a structured lifecycle methodology and Experience of MS project (or similar)
• Basic SQL 
• Data interface development experience (VB/VB script, perl etc) desirable but not essential.
   

What's on offer
In return the candidate will receive a very competitive salary including bonus.