APPLICATION SUPPORT ANALYST
Vancouver

Leith Wheeler Investment Counsel Ltd. is an independent, employee owned Vancouver based investment counsel/ portfolio manager managing over $11 billion in assets on behalf of pension, foundation, corporate and individual clients across Canada.

Leith Wheeler Investment Counsel Ltd. is offering the right candidate an opportunity to join our firm, reporting directly to the Head of Investment Analytics. We are looking for a motivated individual who is familiar with the Canadian Investment environment and who is assertive, project driven, detail oriented, a problem solver, and can work with deadlines. The successful candidate will be expected to investigate, explore and implement the new business initiatives required to take our firm forward. This role will require the candidate to work side by side with portfolio managers, traders, compliance manager, research analysts and operational staff. The candidate will be involved in product evaluation, project planning, business analysis, user training, system integration, tactical development and fixed income analytics.

Job Description:

• Monitor status and functionality of systems and applications
• Investigate, identify and resolve user and application problems in a timely manner
• Assist in implementing patch releases, deployment test cycles and creation/review of release notes
• Coordinate project activities with investment, technical, operational and administration groups
• Collect and communicate information among various working groups and propose and implement technical solutions
• Assist in coordination and be involved in meetings to brain storm new ideas for system enhancements
• Gathering information and specifications to make enhancements to core portfolio management, order management system and unit holders systems
• Investigate and explore new business applications to be used as tools for desktop users
• Expand paradigm for securities master information and maintain necessary data on all securities in our investable universe for various asset classes
• Assist and support new product development as related to data requirements and analytics

Job Qualifications:

• A strong sense of responsibility and ability to take a project through to its completion
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills
• Demonstrate analytical and problem-solving skills required including proven experience in troubleshooting effectively in a fast-pace, time-sensitive environment
• Experience in the financial services sector and working with market data with a background in equities, commodities, fixed income and options is a distinct advantage
• Ability to work well and communicate effectively within a team and with all departments of the firm
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to think "outside of the box"
• Familiarity with Latent Zero (Trading and Portfolio Management) and Advent APX (Portfolio Accounting), is a plus
• CFA a plus
• Strong working knowledge of SQL Server, Excel, Work, Bloomberg
• Some developer/scripting experience such as Windows/.Net, C#, SSRS/SSIS, Perl