Junior Systems Analyst Full Time Job

Junior Systems Analyst job vacancy in Cape Town.

Systems Analyst with a relevant Bachelors Degree and at least 1-2 years’ experience in the Financial Services Industry, preferably in the Investment Management environment, required to be responsible for analysing the system behaviour and understanding the system functionality including instrument valuations and related financial calculations, system support, configuration and health of the system, for an Asset Management Company based in Constantia.

Minimum requirements:

• Relevant degree – BCom / BBusSci / BSc (Investments, Mathematics, Finance or Accounting) essential
• 1-2 years’ relevant experience as a Systems Analyst essential
• Exposure to programming or scripting required
•  Proven ability to solve complex problems
• Experience improving IT systems and processes through analysing system behaviour required
• Experience with trading systems preferred
• Experience with unit trust fund accounting system advantageous
• Financial data analysis skills advantageous
• Knowledge of market instruments, including Fixed Income, and processes advantageous

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Daily monitoring of overall system health
• Monitor and improve daily system controls
• Monitor and ensure business and market data integrity
• Source and manage new data integration requirements from business users
• Test new instrument types to ensure end to end system integrity
• Test and recreate system calculations to validate correct functioning
• Implement configuration changes requested by business users that impact application views and behaviour
• Identify process improvement opportunities
• Work with the Vendor and IT implementation teams to implement change

If you are a South African Citizen & your CV meets the above criteria, please send your CV.