Senior Technical System Specialist

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The Team:

Group Treasury is responsible for funding the group through bank debt, commercial paper and issuing bonds and for making cash available to the group, where and when it is needed. That responsibility also includes risk management activities like foreign exchange, interest rate and related external counterparty risk management. The team consists of 8 treasury professionals. We manage the daily front and back-office treasury processes, as well as the associated accounting, reporting and systems maintenance.

 

The Role:

Reporting to the Treasury Transformation and Project Manager, the Treasury Systems Analyst has responsibility for the maintenance and development of treasury systems and automated processes.

 

The key responsibilities in this role are as follows:

System maintenance

• Accountable for the integrity of the Treasury Systems
• Control and supervise the ongoing maintenance of treasury systems.
• Maintain the system scheduler that manages automated traffic of interfaces and reports and monitor interfaces into Finastra, 360T (the FX and MMF trading platform) and Oracle, taking remedial action if needed
• Maintain static data in the Treasury Management System and electronic banking systems
• Provide oversight and direction to Experian ITS for resolving system issues and planning and executing system maintenance
• Ensure that the Change Request process is adhered to in all environments
• Perform a quarterly access review on all systems used by Group Treasury
• Analyse system(s) performance and output
• Liaise with Global Technology Services to monitor backup and recovery procedures
• Maintain relationship with the Treasury Management System software supplier (FIS)
• Support the systems audit processes with both external and internal auditors

 

System Development

• Investigate and prioritise the rollout of new system(s) functionality
• Support and manage upgrades and hotfixes to the Treasury Management System
• Keep informed on system and solution developments in the market and advise on how they could enhance the current treasury systems infrastructure
• Assist the user community in preparation of User Acceptance Test scripts for any new functionality

 

Process Improvement

• Benchmark existing treasury practices with industry best practices and recommend areas for development
• Deliver treasury transformation objectives
• Review and/or develop automation and digital tools to best enhance Group treasury processes
• Enhance workflow automation for process optimisation and proactively identify opportunities for further automation.

 

 

Knowledge and experience:

• Highly IT literate with 5+ years of recent hands-on experience with SQL (relational databases) and the maintenance of systems.
• Preference will be given to candidates with expertise in treasury systems and related technical support.
• Strong full-stack software development skills (client, services and server-side tiers)
• Knowledge of and experience with AI tools and Large Language Models
• Automation programming knowledge (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
• FIS Quantum and Oracle experience beneficial, but not essential

 

Essential skills:

• Creative thinker with a proven track record of transforming operations through improvement and innovation;
• Strong collaborator and leader with a proven track record of leading, motivating and engaging a high-performing team;
• Excellent relationship builder and stakeholder manager with experience in navigating and influencing management and partner organisations;
• Quality-focused individual who is goal and deadline oriented;
• Strong communicator in verbal, written and interpersonal communication; and
• Intellectual ability to deal with complex financial instruments.

 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related discipline. However, relevant experience can be substituted for education
• Highly IT literate with 5+ years of recent hands-on experience with SQL (relational databases) and the maintenance of systems.
• Strong full-stack software development skills (client, services and server-side tiers)
• Knowledge of and experience with AI tools and Large Language Models
• Automation programming knowledge (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
• FIS Quantum and Oracle experience beneficial, but not essential

 

Essential skills:

• Creative thinker with a proven track record of transforming operations through improvement and innovation;
• Strong collaborator and leader with a proven track record of leading, motivating and engaging a high-performing team;
• Excellent relationship builder and stakeholder manager with experience in navigating and influencing management and partner organisations;
• Quality-focused individual who is goal and deadline oriented;
• Strong communicator in verbal, written and interpersonal communication; and
• Intellectual ability to deal with complex financial instruments.

 

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