Principal Consultant

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

SS&C Eze is seeking an Senior Consultant to join our Product Specialist Trading Team. At SS&C Eze, we are passionate about investing in our employees and delighting our clients. This environment has helped us create a community focused on employee interests and well-being, innovation, and skill-building.

About the Team

The Product Specialist Trading team sits right in the middle of the action. Our responsibility is to become experts in our Trading product and collaborate with buy-side and sell-side traders, R&D stakeholders, and Engagement Managers to ensure the SS&C investment suite remains an asset for our clients. You will prioritize daily high-priority electronic trading requests with long-term projects to keep our clients’ Trading Operations up and running. The role will also help develop and apply best practices to team procedures with an eye on constantly improving the overall efficiency of the work.

Minimum Requirements

• Manage a high volume of client connection and/or case requests
• Build relationships and work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders
• Set appropriate project expectations and follow through on deliverables
• Implement foundational elements of the SS&C Eze product suite with an emphasis on FIX and electronic trading
• Troubleshoot ambiguous software issues using internal resources and leveraging other product experts

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from a related field
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and small projects across multiple clients at the same time
• Strong organization skills and must be detail-oriented
• Consistent positive attitude, even when dealing with difficult situations
• Must be able to manage expectations on deliverables to internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to understand key interdependencies and impact of work
• A motivated individual who is proactive about completing tasks and picking up projects
• Existing knowledge or ability to learn complexities of investment trading workflows

It would be great if you also had:

• Working knowledge of FIX protocols for version 4.0,4.2 and 4.4
• Experience working with buy-side and sell-side traders or trading operations roles
• SQL skills - comfortable composing complex queries to pull data and running statements to modify DB tables when necessary

From the Manager:

“Our team has embraced the growth mindset by consistently finding ways around roadblocks and technical hurdles. We no longer are satisfied with identifying the problem, but instead ask, “how can we make this better?” This mentality has increased productivity, helped create employee resource groups, and kept our team engaged with clients while working from home. We want an individual who has embraced the growth mindset and can bring new ideas and energy to the team.” 

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

For any queries related to hiring, please feel free to contact us @ [email protected].

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

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