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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About The Role
FactSet is seeking an Lead Implementation Specialist to join our Implementation Team to focus on delivering our Performance, Analytics and Risk Solutions to our clients. Implementation Specialists are part of a fast growing team comprised of subject matter experts, combining product and industry knowledge to help ensure customer success during implementations. Implementation Specialists are expected to be experts in FactSet’s Buy Side solutions. As an implementation specialist you will work with an Implementation Project Team to lead successful client implementations.
Our Implementation Team is a key partner to our clients to support complex changes across their organizations, drive enterprise deployments of FactSet solutions, manage organizational restructures, and implement process improvements. Those in our core analytics team deliver our industry leading analytics suite of products to our clients. These people are problem solvers, have the agility to deliver solutions across on-platform and off-platform solutions, and possess the desire to provide the highest level of client satisfaction in the industry.
What You'll Do:
Lead large implementation and transformation programs at our clients at highest quality
Act as the senior resources and sponsor for strategic client implementations
Combine strong industry experience and FactSet product knowledge to deliver complex buy-side solutions for our clients.
Develop high-quality workflows for our clients that are scalable, supportable, and exceed our clients’ expectations
Partner with our data integration teams to advise on extracting, transforming, and loading client and third-party data for use in FactSet
Act as an expert across our analytics suite of products and improve your industry knowledge
Collaborate with internal and external project management personnel to communicate progress, maintain scope and identify risks
Effectively communicate with our most sophisticated users via a strong understanding of investment principles and their application in the industry
Identify growth strategies by outlining client organizational structures and uncovering additional opportunity during the implementation process
Partner with Product Development and Engineering to ensure that client feedback is integrated into our products where feasible
Consult and guide clients toward solution best practices
Provide user training and support the development of training programs
Document solutions to ensure supportability
Facilitate transition from implementation phase to support.
Proactively identify and provide support to improve implementation processes
What We're Looking for:
7+ years of experience working with FactSet’s Analytics tools.
Experience in FactSet Analytics implementation projects is a plus
Strong technical background
Highly detail-oriented with the ability to see the big picture
Enthusiastic with a keen sense of initiative and a desire to take ownership
Ability to work independently and collaboratively with team members in offices globally
Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously with shifting priorities and responsibilities
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to interact effectively with senior-level FactSet stakeholders and clients
CIPM, CFA, FRM, or desire to pursue is a plus
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
- 7+ years of experience working with FactSet Analytics tools
- Strong technical background
- Highly detail-oriented with ability to see the big picture
- Initiative, ownership, and ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Ability to manage multiple projects with shifting priorities
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to interact effectively with senior-level stakeholders and clients
- Experience in FactSet Analytics implementation projects
- CIPM, CFA, or FRM certification, or desire to pursue one
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.
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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.
