Avaloq Expert (80% - 100%)

Avaloq Expert (80% - 100%)

Avaloq Expert (80% - 100%)

About Us
Rothschild & Co is a leading global financial services group with seven generations of family control and a history of over 200 years at the centre of the world's financial markets. Our expertise, intellectual capital and global network enable us to provide a distinct perspective that makes a meaningful difference to our clients, communities and planet. We have 4,200 talented specialists on the ground in over 40 countries around the world, enabling us to deliver a unique global perspective across four market-leading business divisions – Global Advisory, Wealth Management, Asset Management and Five Arrows. Rothschild & Co is committed to an inclusive and supportive environment where diversity and different perspectives are valued.

Overview of Role
The successful candidate will have a varied and hands-on role working with the Business to understand their requirements and translate them into IT solutions using the Avaloq platform. As a member of a team, it is important the candidate shows flexibility, proactivity and responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Business Interaction - Working directly with the business to understand their business processes and find ways to improve these through smart and practical Avaloq parameterization solutions.
• Requirements Analysis - Bring a structured and methodical approach to analyzing and visualizing complex business requirements, mapping these to possible extensions to the Avaloq framework and translating these into clear and precise requirements documentation.
• Project Delivery – Define, implement technical solutions either directly, through interaction with IT colleagues from different areas or external consultants.
• Parameterization – Convert specifications into Avaloq functionality through the wide range of parameterization options to meet the business needs, including enhancing workflows, context actions, order validations, and static data.
• Applications Support - Support business users to ensure they make best use of their systems and that a continual knowledge transfer is achieved.
• Testing - Manage testing and release of new IT services, with a strong comprehensive approach for covering multiple use cases and business scenarios.
• Problem Management - Assist in continual improvement of systems through careful analysis of issues and their causes.

Experience, Skills and Competencies Required

• Minimum of 5 - 6 years of recent hands-on parameterization experience.
• Excellent understanding of the Avaloq core system and the interactivity between modules.
• Specific knowledge in the intercompany related areas of Ex-Custody, Trading and Credit/Risk would be an advantage.
• Certified Avaloq Professional.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English.
• Top-down working approach with good sense for granularity.
• Comprehensive failure analysis and debugging experience, familiar with Avaloq/Oracle error handling.
• Solid understanding of relational databases (Oracle) and their use in a banking environment.
• Ability to understand business processes and commercial concepts, and to interact with the business at a peer level.
• Ability to write proposals and technical documents and to make presentations to diverse types of audiences.
• Involvement in Testing and Business Continuity Management.
• Ability to solve problems independently, quickly and completely.
• Flexible individual willing to get involved where required and keen to face new challenges.
• Strong service delivery orientation with real attention to quality and excellence.

Benefits

• Rothschild & Co is committed to safeguarding and enhancing the health and wellbeing of all its employees.
• We provide a variety of in-house trainings, as well as tuition assistance for further education and training courses.
• Everyone can choose to incorporate agile working principles into their working week.
• We believe there are opportunities for all of us to enhance our working lives by applying a more flexible approach to where and when we work.

If you are curious to learn more about us and have valuable experiences in a similar role, then please submit your CV, Cover Letter and supporting documents through our recruitment tool.

Working Here

One reason for the long-term success of our business is the importance we place on being principled. It is this belief that drives both the way we work with our clients and the way we hire, manage and develop our people.

Our teams reflect the diverse needs of our clients, businesses and the markets we operate in around the world. We value, and seek to maintain, an eclectic mix of skills and backgrounds.

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