Primary System Analyst,Off Job Toms River area,New Jersey USA,Finance & Banking

Position: Primary System Analyst, Off-1

Primary Systems Analyst, Charles River Development

Charles River provides an end-to-end solution to automate front and middle office investment management functions across asset classes on a single platform. Delivered as a hosted service, the solution improves data quality and investment professional productivity, controls risk and lowers technology costs. Charles River serves more than 350 investment firms in over 40 countries in the institutional asset and fund management, private wealth, alternative investments, insurance, banking, and pension markets.

Charles River were acquired by State Street in October 2018.

Company Profile

Background

A client-facing, business and technical staff position responsible for all aspects of managing production Charles River IMS systems for multiple Clients as part of the Charles River Software as a Service (Saas) offerings which includes Application Management for hosted and non-hosted clients.

Responsibilities

This role will involve working closely with Clients, providing expert level remote management, administration and support for Client production Charles River IMS solutions, including:

Client assistance in optimal use of the system
Useradministration/privileges
Parameter configuration changes
System availability
Application and database performance tuning
Daily operational processing monitoring and support
Charles River IMS and database software patches
Charles River IMS version upgrades
Assistance with problem support and resolution
Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery assistance
Working with Charles River colleagues to smoothly transition new Clients to production operation.
Working with vendors as partners to deliver a tightly integrated, seamless service to Charles River Clients.
Participation in the development and on-going refinement, enhancement and continuous process improvement for the services.
Participation in the investigation, implementation, and operation of 3rd party tools to enhance/improve, automate, and streamline the delivery of the services.
The role will involve periodic out of hours support and/or weekend work.
Occasional travel to customer sites may be required for planning and review meetings.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications Required

Experience with Financial Services Investment Management, Trading or related systems highly preferable ( e.g. Charles River IMS)
Proven ability to partner with various internal departments to deliver superior customer service.
Experience in MS SQL Server, Oracle, and/or Sybase database configuration, operations, and basic administration functions.
Any experience with the following is preferred: servers, operating systems, networks, scripting, XML, programming languages, job scheduling software, system monitoring software and disaster recovery/business continuity.
Excellent customer service skills, technical troubleshooting skills, and interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
Bachelor’s degree in a technical or analytical discipline such as Computer Science, IT, Financial Engineering, Engineering, Science, Economics, Maths’ or Statistics preferred.
Minimum of 3+ years’ relevant industry experience

About State Street

State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation we’re making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to…