Company Description
Formed in 2017 by the combination of Misys and D+H, we provide the broadest portfolio of financial services software in the world today—spanning retail banking, transaction banking, lending, capital markets and treasury.
Our solutions enable customers to deploy mission critical technology on premises or in the cloud. With our scale and geographical reach we drive valued solutions and opportunity for customers regardless of size or geography. Through our open, secure, and reliable solutions, we empower customers to accelerate growth, optimize cost, mitigate risk and continually evolve to meet their changing needs.
A Truly global organization with offices in 42 countries worldwide, with an employee base of approximately 10,000 employees. We work with 9,000 customers, including 48 of the top 50 banks globally. Through our software, we’re constantly stretching boundaries to do more for our customers. We are proud to be an organisation where our vision, values and cultural beliefs are not just shared, but are lived by our people globally and where recognition is part of each and every day
Job Description
Reporting to the Customer Support Manager, the Technical Client Support Advisor is the key interface between Finastra clients on one side and Finastra on the other side, contributing to the overall delivery of software and services to ensure a world class customer experience. The holder of the role is a product specialist, with technical competencies, responsible for handling and resolving the raised issues in the shortest time possible. The Technical Client Support Advisor also uses their technical expertise to assist functional consultants on a as needed basis. At times, this role may be called upon to do testing on beta deliveries or fixes before they are released to customers or be requested to go on site to handle issues on the client’s premises.
Responsibilities & Deliverables:
- Excellent communication and customer support skills
- Incident Management experience by participating in a bridge calls for major incidents, and documenting troubleshooting steps and service restoration details, 24X7 Monitoring
- Payments industry knowledge and expertise working with FedWires, Swift, Nacha is a plus.
- Windows based technology such as Finastra software delivery and implementation procedures and relevant methodologies
- Respond to customer requests, whether they are reported issues, questions or assistance requests, helping them to be able to utilize the product properly as per their needs
- Understand the reported issue (especially from a technical perspective) and be able to replicate the respective scenario in the Finastra environments
- Perform technical investigation with root cause analysis of the issue reported, providing adequate solutions where feasible and/or detailed analysis to the stakeholder teams
- Update clients on the progress towards issue resolution, including tracking issues sent to other departments and ensuring a timely resolution, focusing on the client’s satisfaction and product quality
- Participate in client (phone) meetings, WebEx sessions, in order to ensure proper communication with the customers and/or to speed up the investigation of the issue reported
- Validate defects thoroughly by ensuring that the described scenarios are fixed
- Build and provide simple scripts with the assistance of senior colleagues when necessary
- Write technical specifications and best practices documentation
- Raise/ escalate issues with the Team Leader and/ or Manager where/ when needed
Qualifications
Required Experience:
- University degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Business IT or related major (Bachelor's Degree)
- Very good knowledge of SQL, Oracle and Java, including debugging skills and some experience with debugging tools on different operating systems (Visual Studio, Sun/ Solaris Studio, Eclipse)
- Basic expertise with Solaris and Linux Operating systems (medium- advanced expertise on Windows)
- Knowledge of basic Network troubleshooting
- Knowledge on CORBA (the Orbix implementation), JMS (ActiveMQ implementation) and Tomcat are a plus
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English
- Analytical abilities, attention to detail, stability, responsibility as well as customer focus
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a customer facing team
- Understanding in system integrations using MQ, SFTP, API, Webservices is a plus
Top Skills
What We Do
At Finastra our purpose is to unlock the power of finance for everyone & redefine finance for good. We’re the orchestrator of open finance; building and delivering innovative, next-generation technology on our open Fusion software architecture and cloud ecosystem. We’re one of the world’s largest FinTechs, working with over 9,000 customers including 90 of the top 100 banks globally.
We’re creating a pioneering open platform that’s disrupting the financial industry, changing how financial software is developed and used. We believe in collaboration for innovation, to unlock the potential of people, businesses and communities. We have an unmatched portfolio of financial software and deliver mission critical solutions for financial institutions of all sizes, on premises or in the cloud. Our open architecture and platform approach embrace a wide ecosystem of partners and co innovators. Together we're leading the way in which applications are written, deployed and consumed in the world of financial services.
Our people mission is to be the most loved and inclusive fintech company in the world; a mission we take seriously. DE&I factors into everything we do and every decision we make as a business. When you join Finastra, you open up a world of possibilities. With us, you can supercharge financial institutions, big tech and fintech while also building a more inclusive finance industry.
We believe our people thrive when given the opportunity to be their authentic selves and we trust our people to work how, when and where they want; this is OPENworking. Our 2+ policy provides the perfect mix of focused work at home, coupled with the meaningful connection that comes from in person collaboration, coaching and community. We're rolling out a new programme where our people take as much leave as they need; we do not count vacation days and we trust our people to work in a way that suits them, when it suits them.
Come join the future of Fintech, and make your world. OPEN.
