Description

About Us

Wellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.

About the Role

The Position
At Wellington Management you will continually learn, develop, and expand your skills. As part of an inclusive culture, you will meet smart, progressive individuals who will challenge you to solve problems, anticipate our clients' needs, and enhance our proprietary systems and platforms.

This is a great opportunity for a Senior Systems Analyst to join a strong, collaborative team in a role focusing on analysis, problem solving and relationship management. The individual will be responsible for supporting and partnering with Portfolio Managers, Portfolio Analysts, Research Analysts, Traders and Business Managers on a busy investment and trading floor.

This position requires a high level of direct interaction with business users, excellent presentation, clear and concise communication and delivery skills. This individual must be a self-starter with the ability to multi-task and work on a variety of assignments with people at all levels of the organization.
Responsibilities

• Direct interaction and support of Portfolio Managers, Portfolio Analysts, Research Analysts, Traders and Business Managers, including troubleshooting, fixing, and escalating issues in a timely manner that impact the desks.
• Experience working in an application support team in a busy front office environment.
• Champion the needs of the business stakeholders, act as their fiduciary and build trusted relationships.
• Provide timely and accurate status reporting/ issue tracking and communication within IT/Business Parteners.
• Adherence to SOC1 requirements, Incident/Problem Management process and documentation, including follow through using ITIL framework.
• This includes managing production incidents to ensure appropriate escalation and assist in determining root cause and preventative measure.
• Develop a strong partnership with the delivery team to ensure on time, scalable and high quality business solutions.

Qualifications

• 3 - 7 years' experience working in an application support team/environment in the financial services industry.
• Experience supporting Portfolio Managers and Portfolio Analysts working directly in a trade floor environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with high attention to detail.
• Self-motivated, quick learner and willing to work in an energetic, fast paced team environment.
• Experience in Financial Services & Trading Systems systems is required - e.g. Charles River IMS, Aladdin, ThinkFolio, Bloomberg, Flex Trade, FIX which depending on the position may include domains such as:

• Understanding of financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, swaps, options, futures, forwards, derivatives, and FX.
• Experience with advanced investment data concepts such as holdings, transactions, security master, analytics, and performance.
• Detailed knowledge and experience of investors workflows in areas of research/valuation, analysis and portfolio construction.

• Hands-on knowledge of SQL and the ability to extract and analyse data to troubleshoot and fix issues.
• Experience supporting critical production applications.
• Experience in using AI tools such as GitHub Co-Pilot is advantageous.
• CFA Institute Claritas Certificate, CFA Charter or progress towards one considered an asset.

Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? That's ok. If you believe that you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and welcome a chance to review your background. We are dedicated to building and maintaining a diversified workforce and considering a broad array of candidates with a variety of skill, workplace experiences, and backgrounds.

As an equal opportunity employer, Wellington Management ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law . If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at GMWTalentOperations@wellington.com .

We believe that in person interactions inspire and energize our community and are essential to our culture. In support of this commitment, our employees work from our offices 4 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 1 day a week. We believe that this approach ultimately supports our mission to deliver investment excellence to our clients and their beneficiaries over the long term.