Technical Business Analyst at Investec Asset Management

Description of your Skill and Experience

Essential Knowledge

• Financial markets exposure – understands Capital markets products and instruments (Equities, Derivatives markets both local and international)
• Roughly 5 years or so experience as a Technical Business Analyst
• Ability to run projects/BAU's
• 2+ years of SQL scripting experience, i.e. technical exposure is a must – the ability to read logs and SQL scripts; ability to query a DB etc

Desirable skills

• Java/ Python experience
• Technical understanding of securities products
• JSE Traders exam
• Various Fix Protocol Knowledge
• Architecture/integration experience

The Result

Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner. Manage issues with vendors, participate and provide input on problem resolution as well as root cause identification. Communicates and applies project standards and consistently delivers high-quality services to our clients. Participate and provide input for problem resolution and root cause identification as well as communicating with users to collect information about production issues. Deployments / release management which will require out-of-hours support and standby support. The nature of the queries will all be related to financial products traded so an understanding of this is essential.