Application Support Analyst - Chinese or Portuguese speaking

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Your New Job Title: Application Support Analyst - Chinese or Portuguese speaking (Day Shift)

The Skills You'll Need: (Chinese or Portuguese) and English fluent. Science, technology, Engineering, or mathematics academic background, good communication skills.

Your New Salary: £30k with excellent benefits

Location: London

Permanent

Hybrid (minimum 2 days per week in the office) but for the first 6 weeks the candidate will be expected in the office 5 days per week during the training period.

Start date: ASAP

Application Support Analyst-Chinese or Portuguese speaking - What You'll be Doing Each Day:

• Proactively monitor the production services.
• Provide first line support to customers.
• Assist in the creation of a knowledge base to mitigate the number of escalations to the second line team.
• Work with the Client Delivery team to ensure that they have satisfied all pre-production checks/tests before they are released into production.
• Work with the QA team on a rotational basis to assist with quality assurance cycles and to obtain pre-release knowledge of new releases.
• Work closely with internal project staff to ensure that all production requirements are flagged and dealt with during customer on-boarding, ensuring smooth transition into production and to enhance the customer’s perception and experience of the service.
• Work with, and communicate to, all customers and internal technical staff during implementations.
• Deal with service incidents that arise and work to achieve a positive outcome in the shortest possible timeframe.
• Maintain company’s reputation for high-quality service support and delivery.
• Contribute to all aspects of general business improvement.

Application Support Analyst-Chinese or Portuguese speaking - The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• Good technical background. Most desirable is experience of databases/SQL (ability to create and run own queries), MQ (any variant), SWIFT, ISO15022, ISO20022, FIX, XML, messaging authentication/ certification techniques and secure FTP environments.
• Application support and operations in a client facing, financial environment.
• Experience of project delivery life-cycles, in accordance with industry best practice.
• Knowledge of ITIL is beneficial.
• Knowledge of Salesforce is an advantage.
• Business Level written and spoken English skills essential.
• Team player in multi-disciplined environment.
• Passionate about quality and 'getting it right’.
• Highest levels of professionalism, honesty and integrity.
• Willing to pursue a problem through to root cause identification.
• Attention to detail.
• Balanced individual able to critically appraise own strengths and weaknesses.
• Needs to be able to hold their corner and to be able to deal with a spirited work environment.
• Flexible attitude and willingness to work alternative shift pattern, including night shift, should that be necessary (especially during training period).

Working hours:

Day Shift Early: 07:30 to 16:00 Monday to Friday, with 1 hour break (7.5 hours work), On Friday, you may be asked to perform late shift 15:30 to 00:00, with 1 hour break (7.5 hours work),

or

Day Shift Regular: 09:00 to 17:30 Monday to Friday, with 1 hour break (7.5 hours work), On Friday, you may be asked to perform late shift 15:30 to 00:00, with 1 hour break (7.5 hours work),

or

Day Shift Late: 15:30 to 00:00 Sunday to Thursday, with 1 hour break (7.5 hours work)

Please note that although you are on a Day Shift contract, you will be required to occasionally work on the Night Shift 23:30 to 08:00, as is currently the case. Occasional weekend and Bank Holiday working will be required for which time off in lieu or payment at the approved daily rate will be given.

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