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Job Purpose:
Business Analyst required to join the project team of an international life organisation , your primary focus will be a leader in the exponent of change, identifying, documenting and implementing process improvements. The successful candidate will have an important role providing support work for larger projects.

Key Responsibilities:
Ability to carry out and facilitate process reviews in clear and concise manner and to document and present findings accordingly.
Ability to interpret business requirements and reproduce them in a structured document which can be readily understood by business and technical users which in turn enables the company to deliver business benefits on time, within budget and to agreed quality standards.
Assist with business and market research in terms of existing and new developments.
Produce user acceptance testing plans and scripts.
Implementation planning on any enhanced or new system developments.
Share knowledge and skills in practical application of business analysis.
Managing smaller projects.

Skills & Experience:
Significant experience as a business analyst within financial services - minimum 4 years
Experience using a variety of requirements elicitation techniques.
Experience of modelling techniques.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Ability to build and maintain business relationships.
Proven experience of delivering business improvements and efficiencies.
Good facilitation, presentation, and report writing skills.
Hold or studying towards a related professional qualification, BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis.
Expert knowledge of industry best practices for requirement engineering.
Experience of Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
Clearly demonstrate understanding of the project lifecycle.

Hours & Benefits:
Standard Working hours 9am - 5pm.
Salary dependent on experience.

Job Purpose:
A qualified and experienced Senior Trust & Company Administrator, is sought by an established and independently owned International Fiduciary Service Provider to work as part of a dedicated team in delivering excellent service to a broad portfolio of clients. Applicants should have a number of years experience within Company & Trust administration, being used to meeting professional standards and supporting staff training and development.

Key Responsibilities:
Strong industry understanding, experienced in managing a diverse client portfolio, to appropriate regulatory and professional standards.
Assisting with staff training and development and contributing to system and procedure improvements.

Skills & Experience:
STEP/ICSA qualified and an experienced Senior Trust & Company Administrator.
Positive and enthusiastic, having excellent communication skills; used to developing strong internal and external working relationships and assisting with training and development of more junior members of the team.

Hours & Benefits:
Full time, salary in line with experience and qualifications and plus benefits, to include car parking.

Job Purpose:
A Junior .NET Developer is sought by a large financial services group based in central Douglas. Joining on a permanent basis, the successful applicant will assist with the creation of bespoke corporate systems.

Key Responsibilities:
Assist in both development and ongoing maintenance of bespoke company systems.
Support staff using in-house and third-party systems.
Work within defined timescales and to departmental standards.
Produce clear and accurate technical documentation.

Skills & Experience:
Educated to A level or equivalent.
Previous development experience is highly advantageous.
Knowledge of Microsoft Visual Studio, VisualBasic.Net, .NET Framework, and SQL / Microsoft SQL Server.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
Good communication and organisational skills.

Hours & Benefits:
Full time business hours (35 hour working week); Competitive salary and full company benefits package.

Job Purpose:
Part Time Accounts Assistant (20-25 hours per week) required to join the finance department of a leading Payroll Services Company where they will be responsible for assisting with general accounting and bookkeeping duties.

Key Responsibilities:
Production of Management Accounts.
Preparation of VAT returns.
Accounting analysis and reconciliation.
Assisting with month-end and year-end balance sheet reconciliations.
Assisting with the preparation of Financial Statements and supporting schedules.

Skills & Experience:
Minimum of 5 years working experience within a Finance department.
Must ideally be part qualified or be working towards a relevant accounting qualification.
Strong spoken and written communication skills.
Must have good organisational skills and ability to work well within a team environment.

Hours & Benefits:
Part time business hours (20 to 25 hours per week), competitive salary.

Job Purpose:
User Experience Designer required on a permanent, full time basis to design beautiful User Experience for desktop and web, working with exceptionally talented front-end developers, you'll be involved all the way from concept to creation.

Key Responsibilities:
Interact directly with users to gather requirements.
Design beautiful and intuitive user interfaces.
Test newly built designs to find opportunities.
Contribute to agile methodology and planning.

Skills & Experience:
Experience with HTML and CSS.
Very strong UX design principles.
Follow code and team rules.
UI development experience is desirable but not essential.

Hours & Benefits:
Full time business hours, permanent role offering a competitive salary and benefits.

Job Purpose:
Investment System Analyst sought after by an International Life Assurance Organisation on a 12 Month contract. Reporting into the Technical Support Manager you will be the SME for the unit pricing system, assisting all areas of investment services where required.

Key Responsibilities:
Responsible for the fund launch and closure processes on the unit pricing system.
Blended funds system maintenance - including changes in strategic asset allocations and fund switches.
Planning investment services requirements for asset on boarding, working closely with key stakeholders including treasury and ZICs.
Assisting with remediation calculations and methodologies.
Day to day trouble shooting of any system queries within Investment Services.
Assisting with technical queries around dealing and pricing including price sources and price release information.
Month end reporting.

Skills & Experience:
Proven track record in a similar role is essential.
Strong understanding of unit linked investments and pricing principles.
Sound knowledge of fundamental processes including reconciliations, corporate actions and price testing.

Hours & Benefits:
Competitive salary, 12 month contract, full time business hours.

Job Purpose:
Compliance Support Executive required to join leading life assurance organisation for 6 month contract to support the overall compliance function.

Key Responsibilities:
Maintaining regulatory contact logs, policies, procedures & business standards.
Production of Management information.
Act as the first point of call for communication both internally and externally.

Skills & Experience:
Previous experience working in a regulated environment, ideally within a compliance function.
A related professional qualification would be beneficial.
Excellent communication skills.

Hours & Benefits:
Structured working pattern, onsite car parking.

Job Purpose:
Investment Fund Administrator required for a Life Assurance organisation, reporting to the Fund Admin Manager, this position is primarily responsible for asset servicing and portfolio valuations and to provide customer focused service to internal and external customers.

Key Responsibilities:
Assets to be set up accurately and correctly within agreed service standards.
Source data from Fund Managers, IFAs, Bloomberg, custodians and websites.
Undertake initial review of documentation to ascertain if the asset meets the acceptability criteria.
Identify UK PPB tax offensive assets.
Review custodian records and collate necessary information to process Corporate Actions and Dividends.
Collating and inputting external asset prices for PPB and Internal Fund valuations.
Processing PPB and Internal Fund valuations, first review of system output, identification and escalation where appropriate, of exceptions.
Processing policy holder movement in Internal Funds and to deal out exposure created from those movements.
Assisting the team Senior and Manager with checking other team members output.

Skills & Experience:
Excellent knowledge of financial instruments, bonds, equities, collectives, fixed deposits, structured products.
Demonstrate a good understanding of pricing and valuations.
Experience of navigating financial websites on the Internet.
Demonstrate a core knowledge of MS Excel.

Hours & Benefits:
Full Time permanent hours.
Salary based on experience.