Technical Business Analyst – Securities Operations

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.

We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

The Securities Operations team is looking for a committed and competent technical IT business analyst to carry out requirements analysis, solution design and implementation activities. In our team we are responsible for some of the key modules of our system like Securities Trading, Securities Settlement and Reconciliation, Corporate Actions and Transactional Reporting. Our main activities consist of delivering new functionalities to our existing clients and maintaining their baseline as well as doing implementations for new Avaloq clients. We work closely together both within the team and with other teams, therefore we are looking for a new colleague who – in addition to being independent – also enjoys collaborating with others!

Your key tasks:

• Analyse business requirements and processes
• Evaluate possible scenarios and recommend best business and IT solutions
• Design business solutions in PL/SQL, Avaloq Script and/or Java (deployed on Openshift or Kubernetes)
• Participate and lead client and prospects workshops explaining Avaloq features and understanding clients needs
• Participate in implementation workshops
• Actively manage client relationship by communication regularly and providing business consulting services to Avaloq customers
• Prepare reports and project documents concerning new client requirements, ongoing activities and project status

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in one or more computing language.
• Fantastic analytical, problem solving and conceptual skills
• Excellent client-orientation and strong communication skills both verbally and in writing with a service-oriented attitude
• Passion for learning and always improving yourself

It would be a real bonus if you have:

• Experience within securities trading, securities trading interfaces (FIX, Swift), Transactional Reporting (Mifid, EMIR…), corporate actions or settlement and reconciliation topics
• Experience on Java applications on Openshift or Kubertes
• Knowledge and experience in PL/SQL
• University degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Mathematics or equivalent
• German language skills

Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.