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Posted 25 September, 2020
Liontrust Asset Management

Front Office Systems Specialist

London, UK Full Time
Competitive

Liontrust is a specialist fund management company, listed on the London Stock Exchange, with offices in London, Edinburgh and Luxembourg. We have nine...

Liontrust is a specialist fund management company, listed on the London Stock Exchange, with offices in London, Edinburgh and Luxembourg. We have nine fund management teams with their own separate strategies managing a total of 75 portfolios. There are 39 fund managers, 4 traders and 27 other users of investment management systems.

Overall purpose of the role:

The primary purposes of the role are:

  • Management and oversight of the front office systems to ensure systems are running well, fit for purpose and all users have the knowledge required to use them.
  • Be hands-on - covering monitoring and day-to-day support (supported by others in the team)
  • Responsible for delivery of projects such as upgrades, integrations, new functionality testing and adding new users/teams;
  • Engage with variety of teams on Business Continuity Planning and having responsibility for Eze systems DR testing;
  • Working with front office users on training and proactively ensuring they are satisfied with functionality.

Job description (day to day tasks and potential adhoc projects):

  • Front Office application support for business-critical systems working with users in time-critical situations;
  • Working with vendors on issues to resolution;
  • Project management of delivery of variety of projects, including identifying critical path, managing vendors and delivering on own component parts;
  • Managing communication to users on issues and projects;
  • Documenting and diagramming processes and changes so the wider Technology team and other departments are aware;
  • Identify and resolve/escalate any risks and system dependencies.
  • Working on system impacts of business changes: e.g. fund launches, regulatory change, new asset classes, etc
  • Training users on new or existing functionality;
  • Considering BCP/DR impacts arising from changes;
  • Integration of systems - front, middle and back office.

Qualifications/IT products and systems required:

Role requires:

  • Finance knowledge (asset classes, workflows, industry knowledge) ;
  • Experience working with users across trade lifecycle (FMs, Traders, Operations, Performance, Risk, Compliance);
  • Project Management skills - ability to manage multiple projects;
  • Business Analysis skills - teasing out user requirements and translating into what is required from the software;
  • Vendor management expertise;
  • Analytical and problem-solving mindset.

Technical skills:

  • Knowledge of OMS functionality, EMS trading systems and file and FIX based integration;
  • Systems experience: Eze OMS, Bloomberg (particularly PORT),
  • Visio or similar for systems diagrams;
  • SQL Server query knowledge - for troubleshooting and report writing. This is not a programming role.

Skills/knowledge/experience required:

  • Analytical and problem-solving mindset.
  • Innovative thinker
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • At least 5 years Front Office systems experience
  • Previous experience of managing high pressure users
  • Previous project management experience
  • The ability to effectively communicate technical/complex issues in a simplified manner to various audiences
  • Demonstrate ability to be a collaborative team player with the ability to interact well with all levels of internal and external personnel and adapt to rapidly changing requirements.

Company Benefits:

  • 27 days holiday
  • Extra day off for Christmas Shopping Day
  • Private medical and Cash Plan (multiple levels of cover)
  • Competitive Salary
  • Generous Pension Scheme
  • Share Incentive Plan
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • BUPA Health Assessments
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Season ticket loans

This listing expired on 25 Oct. Applications are no longer accepted.

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