Business Systems Analyst - Edmonton, Canada - AIMCo (Alberta Investment Management Corporation)

AIMCo (Alberta Investment Management Corporation)

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Edmonton, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Opportunity
Are you an individual with keen interest in Technology and Finance, eager to refine your experience.

Do you want to contribute to the financial security of hundreds of thousands of Albertans by ensuring the foundational IT systems are working at peak efficiency? Are you a natural problem solver that thrives when you are solving complex problems and providing advise on process improvements? If this sounds like you, we are excited to meet you.

Highly successful Business System Analysts share many of the same characteristics. They are self-starting, intellectually curious, results focused with exceptional problem solving, programming, analytic and communications skills. They are relationship builders and able to interact with diverse groups of internal and external stakeholders. They support one another through challenges and enthusiastically celebrate team accomplishments. Business System Analysts often are champions of continuous improvement and helping their technology and business peers succeed. They tend to see a problem as an opportunity and can easily succeed as a Business System Analyst.

Responsibilities

Primary focus furthering the advancement investment opportunities through technology implementations.
Demonstrated experience in a role from which strong view of the investment management industry, including experience in front and middle office
Facilitating sessions with all impacted stakeholders not limited to technical design, planning, testing, and deployment
Exposure to a diverse set of investment management products with preference towards listed instruments (Equities, Fixed Income, Money Market)
Performing rootcause analysis involving detailoriented, metric driven, problem solving and research skills
Diploma or degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
Ideally brings 4+ years of experience in working with relational database and the ability to bring structure and discipline in developing/programming using SQL server
Ability to write efficient, complex queries against very large data sets
Experience with other programming languages (ie.

Net, Java, C#, etc.) is beneficial

Exposure to the investment industry or understanding of various financial instrument life cycle events is considered an asset
Knowledge of ITIL, DevOps and Agile methodologies would be beneficial
Familiarity with Charles River, Calypso, Bloomberg, Murex, SimCorp Dimension, Eagle and integration platforms is an asset
Thrives under pressure and takes a proactive approach to problem solving
Adept at managing multiple, concurrent deadlines and shifting priorities
Passion for continuous learning and excellent team player
Excellent Analytical and Problemsolving skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrates a strong commitment to AIMCo's core values of excellence, transparency, humility, integrity and collaboration, and inspires the same in others

Success Measures

12-month success will be achieved by having a strong understanding of AIMCo's investment workflows, lifecycle events and processes maintaining support including developing and enhancing loaders and streams in the Eagle Suites (Pace, Pricing Center, SRM, Message Center etc.).

Benefits and Rewards

Exciting special project work and stretch assignments
Ongoing training, coaching and educational reimbursement programs
Health care spending account and onsite fitness facilities

About AIMCo

Alberta Investment Management Corporation, AIMCo, is one of Canada's largest and most diversified institutional investment managers with CAD $168.3 billion of assets under management, as of December 31, 2021.

AIMCo invests globally on behalf of 32 pension, endowment, and government funds in the Province of Alberta.

At AIMCo, you'll be part of a Results-Only Work Environment that enables employees to choose where and when they work.

An outcome-based goal-setting methodology ensures that our people leaders and employees are all focused on the same measurable goals.

Next Steps
We are excited to meet you. Please submit your resume or CV to be considered for this opportunity. Applications are being reviewed on a rolling basis and we will be in touch with any questions.

Job Reference:
CA00666