Equities Service Desk - Trader Support - 7464
Location
Woking, Surrey | United Kingdom
Job description
The Role:
The EU Service Desk provides support service to customers and forms part of ION's global support team. The desk is responsible for providing both on-site and remote support to users and trading support personnel, maintaining a strong relationship with clients as well as developing a deep understanding of client systems and business practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Receives all client raised incidents and enters on the internal call logging system
- Analyses each call, using business acumen to identify the nature of the incident and action appropriately
- Deals with calls immediately, either independently or by passing to the appropriate team to ensure optimum resolution
- Works to improve knowledge and skills to increase 1st line resolution within the service desk
- Attends client site to assist with issue resolution and increase business knowledge where requested
- Develops strong working relationships with other departments to assist with the delivery of our service to clients
- Adheres to "best practice" and department procedures for client communications, incident progression and investigation
- Participates in the team shift patterns and assists with weekend work and out of hours escalation when required
Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience
- Hold an IT, numerate or business related Degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum 0-2 years of experience
- Have an enquiring mind with an analytical and proactive approach to problem solving, even when under pressure
- Ability to read and understand code in one or more of the following: C++, TCL, UNIX Scripting
- Service desk analysts need to be dynamic, resilient, objective, delivering rapid and accurate solutions to the incidents raised by customers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A confident and professional manner
- Able to manage own time and a changing workload
- Co-operative approach to working with team members and other departments
- Able to view situations from a customer perspective and act accordingly
- A strong desire to develop a deep understanding of financial markets and business flows and Fidessa's functionality
- Working knowledge of networks and network infrastructure is desirable
About us
Weâre a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, weâve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.
- Over 2,000 of the worldâs leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the worldâs central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk.
- Over 800 of the worldâs leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the worldâs financial market infrastructure.
ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group with 13,000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe.
Our ever-expanding global footprint, cutting edge products, and over 40,000 customers worldwide provide an unparalleled career experience for those who share our vision.
ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.
ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.
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