At Franklin Templeton, everything we do is focused on one thing – delivering better client outcomes. We do that by partnering closely with our clients, assessing their strategic needs, and identifying the solution or solutions that can meet the challenge. Over 12,000 employees working in 34 countries around the world are dedicated to servicing investment solutions for our clients in more than 160 countries. For more than 70 years our success has been a direct result of the talent, skills and persistence of our people, and we are looking for qualified candidates to join our team.
What is a FTI System Analyst responsible for?
- The FTI System Analyst works on new technology solutions across a set of applications to improve business efficiency and productivity by acting as the main liaison to the business community. Continuously works on supporting business (Trading) applications and understands in providing support on timely manner. They work on medium to highly complex projects that involve medium to high levels of risk to the firm. Projects are generally large and cross-functional, spanning multiple BUs. They work to some extent with the IT Manager and the project manager running a medium to large project.
- Supporting different applications of Investment Management Front Office and understand the criticality of keeping the infrastructure running as intended. The candidate should have strong Investment data experience and worked extensively with data domains of Front office and middle office.
What are the ongoing responsibilities of FTI System Analyst?
- Supports Front Office Trading applications and works on technical solutions for business requirements to maximize efficiencies by leveraging the technology strategies to facilitate the system solution for requirements; plans and executes the gathering and documentation of technical requirements; consults with stakeholders to streamline complex work processes; designs interfaces, features, and new technologies; analyzes, designs, integrates, and implements solutions across multiple business functions, applications and domains; provides moderate complexity of alternative technical solutions to a business need; maintains the infrastructure as intended that having all servers up and running with no vulnerabilities (Required)
- Performs analysis to understand and communicate production problem patterns and suggests continuous improvements; provides technical support and service by researching, responding to, and resolving users’ technical and data issues; works with various technology teams to proactively address technical issues; facilitates cross-functional group collaboration to resolve complex technical issues in a timely manner; identifies modules across multiple applications that could be impacted in response to an existing issue or a new requirement; creates reports on application related information such as performance, availability, and incident resolution and helps analyze trends (Required)
- Collaborates with project teams to identify requirements; identifies Subject Matter Expert resources required for the project to ensure proper skills are aligned with required technical/system tasks; facilitates discussions with project stakeholders and team members to identify functional and non-functional requirements; gathers information necessary to interpret financial tools and reports (e.g., profit and loss, CBA) and provides it to the project team; develops innovative solutions to moderately complex cross-functional problems, taking into consideration day-to-day operating issues; elicits and documents technical requirements for Requests For Information (RFI) and Requests For Proposal (RFP) initiatives (Required)
- Facilitates implementation of changes to existing applications; documents configuration and participates in code reviews and walkthroughs; reviews system test plans, test cases and scripts for a medium-large sized systems; and resolves defects opened as part of system testing and helps with triage and clarification of issues uncovered in user acceptance testing for the application development team; identifies industry related opportunities to improve existing systems or applications (Required)
What ideal qualifications, skills & experience would help someone to be successful?
- 3-6 years of experience working in Investment Management industry especially on supporting Trading Applications
- Demonstrated ability to create Functional, Business & System requirements by partnering with Trading desks and technology departments
- Experience in working on supporting/upgrading trading applications on AZURE
- Ability to understand complex interrelated systems and processing
- Exposure to FIX (Financial Information Exchange), Java, Python will be added advantage
- Experience with code versioning tools like SVN, BitBucket, Servicenow and other project related tools like Bamboo, Splunk will be added advantage.
- A good understanding of Agile (Scrum, DAD, and the like) and CMM Waterfall methodologies
- Ability to adapt quickly and easily to changes within the business
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently or in a team environment on larger projects
- Excellent organization, planning and time management skills
What makes Franklin Templeton Investments unique?
In addition to the dynamic and professional environment at Franklin Templeton, we strive to ensure that our employees have access to a competitive and valuable set of Total Rewards—the mix of both monetary and non-monetary rewards provided to you in recognition for your time, talents, efforts, and results.
Highlights of our benefits include:
- Professional development growth opportunities through in-house classes and over 150 Web-based training courses
- An educational assistance program to financially help employees seeking continuing education
- Medical, Life, and Personal Accident Insurance benefit for employees. Medical insurance also covers employee’s dependents (spouses, children and dependent parents)
- Life Insurance for protection of employees families
- Personal accident insurance for protection of employees and their families
- Personal loan assistance
- Employee Stock Investment Plan (ESIP)
- Onsite fitness center, recreation center, and cafeteria
- Cricket grounds and gymnasium
- Library
- Health Center with doctor availability
- Tuition Assistance Program
- HDFC ATM on the campus
