Charles River IMS Support Analyst, L&G - Asset Management, America

• Full-time
• Permanent/Regular or Fixed Term Contract/Temporary:
  Permanent (UK and ROW) / Regular (US)
• L&G Business Unit:
  Legal & General Investment Management
• L&G sub Business Unit: LGIMA
• Primary
  
  Location:
  
  USA, Chicago
• Job Family: IT & Change LGIM
• Compensation: USD 130,000 - USD 145,000 - yearly

L&G's Asset Management business is a major investor across public and private markets worldwide, with $1.533 trillion in AUM.*

Our clients include individual savers, pension scheme members and global institutions, who invest alongside L&G’s own balance sheet.

Our ambition is to be a leading global investor, innovating to solve complex challenges for our clients using the power of L&G. This is rooted in our investment philosophy and processes, which are focused on creating value over the long term.

We believe that incorporating financially material sustainability criteria, when relevant to our clients, can generate value and drive positive change.

The primary function of this role will be to provide expert-level technical and functional support for users of the Charles River (CR) IMS (CRD) platform in the US region – the user estate includes Portfolio/Fund Managers, Traders, Compliance, and operations staff. This person will also provide localized support for the wider investment/trading systems estate, helping maintain stability, performance, availability of all applications and key workflows.

This role will involve becoming an SME for asset management-specific investment workflows, focusing on CR IMS, and collaborating with various technical and operational teams to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues. The CR IMS Support Analyst will also help manage any platform defect backlog with our vendor CRD (Charles River Development/State Street), advocating for improvements and driving progress in delivery. They will lead incident triage, contribute to wider service improvement initiatives, and help ensure that disruptions to the investments business are minimized.

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot and resolve incidents relating to the CR IMS platform, collaborating closely with end-users, Charles River Development (CRD) and internal technology teams and ancillary vendor-partners including Asia start of day batch and processes.
• Work closely with CRD/SST Alpha support team and the L&G investment initiatives team to ensure efficient response times for user issues.
• Collaborate with team members and outsourced provider to ensure daily tasks are completed in line with agreed service standards and deadlines (including. accuracy, timeliness, and client service measures).
• Monitor system performance, data integrity, data quality and compliance standards within the Charles River system, proactively identifying and addressing anomalies or issues.
• Collaborate with internal teams, including IT, operations, and compliance, to ensure seamless integration of the Charles River system with other enterprise systems and data sources.
• Addressing thematic issues and defects by monitoring recurring issues and proactively managing a backlog of tickets (Salesforce, JIRA) in collaboration with CRD.
• Support collaboration with stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Work with Charles River data (CRD) in the configuration and maintenance of the CRIMS system to support investment management workflows, including portfolio management, trade order management, compliance, and risk management.
• Conduct workflow testing of workflows in CR IMS lower environments – i.e., to replicate issues or regression test new proposed changes.
• Provide training and user support to end-users, assisting them in effectively utilizing the features and functionalities of the Charles River system.
• Stay updated with industry trends and advancements in the Charles River platform, make recommendations for, and implement, enhancements to optimize system performance and functionality.
• Conduct regular assessments of the system's effectiveness and propose improvements to streamline processes and enhance user experience.
• Supporting the coordination and undertaking of testing CRIMS for patches, upgrades, and disaster recovery
• Coordinating the backlog of change work, removing blockers, and contributing ideas to the backlog of improvements from a technical perspective.
• Conduct annual materiality assessments for CRD and ensure either ad-hoc or scheduled supplier questionnaires are completed promptly and accurately.
• Manage regular service reviews with CRD and other platform/system vendors as required.

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or demonstrable equivalent experience at this level.
• Ideally fundamental level investment certifications and courses or working towards achieving such – e.g. CFA L1
• Prior Completion of CRD bootcamp courses or Charles River University – version 17R1 onward.
• In-depth understanding of investment management workflows and processes, including portfolio management, trade order…