What are the responsibilities and job description for the VIE - Application Analyst position at AXA Investment Managers?
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) is a responsible asset manager, actively investing for the long-term to help its clients, its people and the world to prosper. Our high conviction approach enables us to uncover what we believe to be the best global investment opportunities across alternative and traditional asset classes.
AXA IM is a leading investor in green, social and sustainable markets.
We are committed to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 across all our assets, and integrating ESG principles into our business, from stock selection to our corporate actions and culture. Our goal is to provide clients with a true value responsible investment solution, while driving meaningful change for society and the environment.
AXA IM employs over 2,600 employees around the world, operates out of 24 offices across 18 countries and is part of the AXA Group, a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management
Description Of The Department
The Technology department provides applications and technical services support and projects delivery to the AXA Investment Managers’ business worldwide. Its mission is to support Business through project and support teams.
The candidate will be an Application Analyst within the technology team dedicated to Simcorp Front Office Support. This team maintains and improves IT tools used by Fund managers and Traders.
Simcorp tribe team has a support presence in the following locations Paris, London, Hong Kong, and the US.
Discover your opportunity
The main responsibilities of the role :
The Application Analyst will be responsible for supporting demanding business users. So, a candidate who enjoys working with others in a fast-paced environment will be suitable for this position.
We are looking for someone who wants to work in a front office support environment, experiences that are valuable include:
Your Profile
Share your unique expertise
Technical skills:
The AXA Group is a global leader in insurance and asset management, with 160,000 employees serving 105 million customers in 62 countries.
We protect and advise our clients at every stage of their lives, offering products and services that meet their needs in the areas of insurance, personal protection, savings and asset management.
Our mission: To act for human progress by protecting what matters
Our values: Customer first, Integrity, Courage and One AXA
About The Entity
At AXA IM we are investing with a clear purpose – to make the world a better place. We act for human progress by investing for what matters. Our conviction-led approach enables us to uncover what we believe to be the best global investment opportunities across alternative and core asset classes. We are already entrusted by our clients with more than €887 billion in assets.
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AXA IM is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we encourage candidates with disabilities or any other protected characteristic to apply. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities, when needed, to apply for a position or to perform essential job functions.
Inclusion and Diversity | Careers | AXA IM Corporate (axa-im.com)
What We Offer
We are committed to offer you an environment where you can:
Grow your potential: Be part of a forward-thinking business with internal opportunities and personalized learning paths available to help constantly develop your skills and abilities.
Shape the way you work: Work for a company which is highly committed to providing flexibility & balance to its employees, offering you a large range of benefits (hybrid working, competitive health benefits, among many others.).
Thrive within a diverse community: Play a role within a responsible company that actively recognizes and values individual differences in a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Move the world forward: Join a responsible employer that acts in favor of societal and environmental causes as an investor, insurer and company, notably through the AXA Heart in Action association. As part of our commitment to sustainability and environmental responsibility, we will celebrate your arrival by planting a tree.
AXA IM is a leading investor in green, social and sustainable markets.
We are committed to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 across all our assets, and integrating ESG principles into our business, from stock selection to our corporate actions and culture. Our goal is to provide clients with a true value responsible investment solution, while driving meaningful change for society and the environment.
AXA IM employs over 2,600 employees around the world, operates out of 24 offices across 18 countries and is part of the AXA Group, a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management
Description Of The Department
The Technology department provides applications and technical services support and projects delivery to the AXA Investment Managers’ business worldwide. Its mission is to support Business through project and support teams.
The candidate will be an Application Analyst within the technology team dedicated to Simcorp Front Office Support. This team maintains and improves IT tools used by Fund managers and Traders.
Simcorp tribe team has a support presence in the following locations Paris, London, Hong Kong, and the US.
Discover your opportunity
The main responsibilities of the role :
The Application Analyst will be responsible for supporting demanding business users. So, a candidate who enjoys working with others in a fast-paced environment will be suitable for this position.
We are looking for someone who wants to work in a front office support environment, experiences that are valuable include:
- Working in a support environment where facing off directly to end users is valued
- A strong technology background working with service logs, dashboards, and automation tools
- Provide functional process and technical support on OMS/EMS systems.
- Undertake daily operational checks, investigate, and resolve any problems identified.
- Follow strictly the procedures to send service requests to the editor and to escalate issues
- Functional requirements gathering from the front, middle and back-office investment management system users
- Maintain market awareness and propose new solutions/approaches to the business, building on a foundational knowledge of the process and data flows in use
- Answer, evaluate and prioritize incoming telephone, voice mail, e-mail and in-person requests for assistance from users experiencing problems with investment systems and where required, implement relevant steps to prevent re-occurrence
- Collaborate with third party vendors as required, in accordance with agreed standards and procedures
- Build credible, trusted advisor relationships with the business and assist with issues as they arise, logging and tracking them in call logging tools.
- Ensure appropriate change management processes are implemented to benefit users
- Study and propose tactical solutions as required
- Produce user and functional procedure guides
- Communicate with the users on system/module availability / future evolutions using the standard templates
- Provide training to clients when processes change, or new functionality becomes available
- Provide expertise in technical/functional analysis to drive business process change
- Ensure compliance with all information security policies and proactively look for advice for new scenario as they arise
- Implement and operate regular end user activity monitoring for the given application
- Participate actively on the yearly upgrade of SimCorp Dimension and on any patch release (qualification, regression tests, etc…)
- Assist the project managers in the context of projects impacting SimCorp Dimension on which their
- Analyse existing processes
- Gather business requirements
- Write functional specifications
- Contribute to the testing phase for new versions and/or new tools
Your Profile
Share your unique expertise
Technical skills:
- Relevant industry qualification or degree (Finance/ Technology)
- Experience in the financial industry, ideally in asset management, Equities, Fixed Income
- Ability to research and implement procedures.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and mitigate problems
- Good understanding of regulatory requirements and their practical application
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Good communication skills, both oral and in writing, with the ability to work across different jurisdictions and with stakeholders across different parts of the firm
- Good language skills in English. French language skills would be a plus.
- Good judgment and ability identify issues and escalate them as appropriate
- Pragmatic and common-sense approach to solving business problems
- Self-starter with ability to multi-task
- Ability to build business relationships
- Proactive – provides effective solutions
- Capacity to influence and convince
- Strong ethical values
The AXA Group is a global leader in insurance and asset management, with 160,000 employees serving 105 million customers in 62 countries.
We protect and advise our clients at every stage of their lives, offering products and services that meet their needs in the areas of insurance, personal protection, savings and asset management.
Our mission: To act for human progress by protecting what matters
Our values: Customer first, Integrity, Courage and One AXA
About The Entity
At AXA IM we are investing with a clear purpose – to make the world a better place. We act for human progress by investing for what matters. Our conviction-led approach enables us to uncover what we believe to be the best global investment opportunities across alternative and core asset classes. We are already entrusted by our clients with more than €887 billion in assets.
AXA Investment Managers | Home | AXA IM Corporate (axa-im.com)
AXA IM is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we encourage candidates with disabilities or any other protected characteristic to apply. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities, when needed, to apply for a position or to perform essential job functions.
Inclusion and Diversity | Careers | AXA IM Corporate (axa-im.com)
What We Offer
We are committed to offer you an environment where you can:
Grow your potential: Be part of a forward-thinking business with internal opportunities and personalized learning paths available to help constantly develop your skills and abilities.
Shape the way you work: Work for a company which is highly committed to providing flexibility & balance to its employees, offering you a large range of benefits (hybrid working, competitive health benefits, among many others.).
Thrive within a diverse community: Play a role within a responsible company that actively recognizes and values individual differences in a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Move the world forward: Join a responsible employer that acts in favor of societal and environmental causes as an investor, insurer and company, notably through the AXA Heart in Action association. As part of our commitment to sustainability and environmental responsibility, we will celebrate your arrival by planting a tree.
