FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.
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Role/Department Description:
Analytic and Trading - Front Office Solution - EMS Client Services Shared Service - Trade Support
Primary Purpose: To ensure timely and high-quality responsiveness on to FactSet EMS and Portware Trade Support desk.
Associate Client Support Engineer is responsible for providing world class service and support to our clients. Focus on production support for Portware and FactSet EMS and monitor our hosted infrastructure; to perform routine system maintenance and handle internal & client implementation projects. Foster teamwork, collaboration, drive innovation and automation to improve efficiency to meet team and company goals.
Responsibilities:
- Provide reactive level I and II technology support to the FactSet users via phone, email, and remote assistance
- Resolve client issues with installation, connectivity, crashing, slowness, security, and Office Integration
- Provide proactive technology support to the FactSet users via phone, email, and remote assistance
- Resolve client issues with installation, connectivity, crashing, slowness, security, and Office Integration
- Monitor team mailboxes for client issues and client emails that have bounced back Resolve client issues and notify the account team of client emails that have bounced back
- Work on roaster in our 24*6 schedule.
Required Skills:
- Networking, computer engineering, and application troubleshooting
- Fluent in English. Capable to articulate the problem to internal escalation point and explain the solution on a complex issue.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent time and task management abilities; Self motivated with good discipline.
- To read and interpret technical documentation and to create document for the fellow team member.
- Excellent problem solving, planning, organizational skills
- Hands-on experience with FIX protocol, EMS/OMS and other financial software is highly preferred
What makes it interesting?
- Exposure to a broad range of cutting-edge technologies like FIX Protocol, OMS/EMS, JAVA, Oracle DB, Various server OS Platforms (Windows, Linux, Solaris etc), Scripting (shell, batch, powershell etc), VWware, Citrix, Networking skills
- Ability to make a meaningful contribution to a tight-knit team
- Freedom to come up with creative solutions to real-world problems and drive efficiencies internally and with our clients
- Direct working relationships with the some of the most influential buyside institutions on the planet.
- Working alongside individuals who are true leaders in the field.
Company Overview:
FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.
At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to characteristics protected by law.
Skills Required
- Networking, computer engineering, and application troubleshooting experience
- Fluent English and ability to clearly explain complex technical issues and solutions
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent time and task management abilities
- Self-motivated and disciplined work style
- Ability to read and interpret technical documentation
- Ability to create technical documentation for team members
- Excellent planning and organizational skills
- Hands-on experience with FIX Protocol, EMS/OMS, and other financial software
- Availability to work a 24/6 support schedule
Factset Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Factset and has not been reviewed or approved by Factset.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental/vision in some descriptions, and life and disability insurance. Company-wide wellness days and region-specific add-ons (e.g., Vitality PMI, Bupa dental, Health Shield cashback) further reinforce a strong health-and-wellbeing offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement savings support is consistently included as part of the core package through retirement savings plans. The presence of these programs is framed as a meaningful component of total rewards beyond base salary.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase program is highlighted as a standard part of the total rewards package. This provides a pathway to share ownership alongside cash compensation.
Factset Insights
What We Do
FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions. For 40 years, through market changes and technological progress, our focus has always been to provide exceptional client service. From more than 60 offices in 23 countries, we’re all working together toward the goal of creating value for our clients, and we’re proud that 95% of asset managers who use FactSet continue to use FactSet, year after year. As big as we grow, as far as we reach, and as successful as we become, we stay connected to our clients and to each other.
