Assistant Vice President - Front Office Application Support

Roles and Responsibilities : Accountable for working with the Front Office Application support team. Responsible for Incident Management within the Front Office area. Responsible for working with Front Office Application support to drive Service Improvement. Responsible to drive prioritization for the Front Office book of work. Ability to work in 3 different time zones on rotation basis and over the weekend for business critical activities. Accountable to work with business users to identify concerns or areas for improvement in their workflows and work with Aladdin ASM, BlackRock and Aladdin Change managers on the resolution. Responsible for championing the use of Aladdin throughout the business. Accountable for understanding the entire Trade Life Cycle and prioritize the issue based on criticality. Responsible for maintaining logs, issue tracking, and documenting resolutions for future reference. Responsible to provide MI specific to each regional service review (UK, Europe, APAC,Americas) Participating in any Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Failover activities. Ability to resolve queries related to Business critical applications e.g. Aladdin, Bloomberg,WSO etc. Job Requirements : 10-15 years of experience in investment banking or a related field with expertise in application support. Sound understanding of Investment Life Cycle. Sound understanding of Aladdin Platform Knowledge along with the various components of Aladdin e.g. PfC, PmC, Explore is desirable Sound knowledge of Trading Venues & OMS/EMS e.g. Bloomberg, MarketAxess,TradeWeb. Ability to query trade data, logs and troubleshoot the issue. Understanding of FIX messages for trade execution. Knowledge of Market Data e.g. Bloomberg Terminal, Reuters, EIKON and other data sources. Sound knowledge entire Trade life cycle and various steps involved in trading life cycle. Sound understanding of various Financial Asset Classes. Fair knowledge of Market Regulation