Application Analyst Intern (12-month placement)

AXA

Jan 29

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Placement Program
Data
Software Engineering
London

Requirements

We are looking for Undergraduate students Studying for a Computing/ IT/ Business/Finance course ( On course for a 2:1 or higher)
Technical Skills:
Previous experience working with Microsoft Office, in particular good Excel skills
Some understanding of Databases and knowledge of SQL
Willingness to learn/improve their technical knowledge
Knowledge and Skills:
Good maintenance of English (French would be a plus)
Proficient in producing high quality documentation in the form of user guides and process flows
Competencies:
Strong interpersonal skills , proactivity, dynamism, well organized,
Customer focused
Excellent written and verbal communication skills as you will be in constant contact with various internal/external teams (State Street, TSF, Compliance and other Technology teams).
Able to work independently or as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
Ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations
The ability to interact with non-technical users to understand their problems
Willingness to learn, Attention to detail, Ability to work to deadlines

Responsibilities

Application support:
Undertake daily operational checks, investigate, and resolve any problems identified.
Provide functional and technical support (application settings, assistance, trainings)
User Account creation for various applications
Ensure appropriate change management processes are implemented to benefit users
Produce user and functional procedure guides
Communicate with the users on system availability / future evolutions
Coordinate the work of the different IT teams to ensure the best level of support.
Ensure compliance with all information security policies.
Develop and deploy processes that will ensure Level 1 security controls are in place for all dedicated systems.
Implement and operate regular end user activity monitoring for the given application.
Process Improvement:
Follow-up and management of tools & services enhancements.
Incident and Change order management.
Performing Monthly Application reconciliations for auditing purposes.
Production of Business KPIs, monthly dashoards and weekly incident reports.
Analyse, compare and coordinate data from different sources.
Correct and amend historical data in Factset (a platform that provides different financial services, like data consolidation, market analytics, portfolio data management).
Create portfolios in Bloomberg. Provide users with various functions/views in Bloomberg (platform that offers real-time and historic price data and financials data).
Integrate transactions in SimCorp (an innovative core investment software that offers integrated investment management solutions).
Configure and reset end users accounts in Global 1 (an application used for securities borrowing and lending activity at AXA-IM)
Administration Support:
Manage timesheets/ and support rota for Team.
Manage invoices using Finance tools.
In partnership with the business identify, lead, design and implement enhancements and improvements on client’s applications
Gather business enhancements requirements from users and business teams
Support the understanding of the client’s needs in line with the business strategic developments, AXA IM strategy and Long Term Operating Model
Management of projects/initiatives related to Small Scales Enhancements (SSE):
Analyse existing processes
Gather business requirements
Write functional specifications
Contribute to the testing phase for new versions and/or new tools
Depending on the needs, assist the project managers in the context of projects on which their:
Analyse existing processes
Gather business requirements
Write functional specification
Contribute to the testing phase for new versions and/or new tools

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