Software Technical Analyst

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Why choose Manulife?

• Competitive Salary packages and performance bonuses
• Day 1 HMO + FREE coverage for your dependents (inclusive of same-sex partners)
• Retirement savings benefit
• Rewarding culture that values wellness and well-being
• Performance Bonus
• Global network of industry experts
• Extensive training resources

Job Description:

The Group Functions Technology team is currently hiring for Software Technical Analysts to help support (2) teams - Actuarial/Reinsurance and Finance/Treasury.

The Software Technical Analyst (Actuarial & Reinsurance) team will be responsible for supporting the Asia TAI Reinsurance application. We are looking for someone with strong business analysis skills and solid operational & vendor management experience to support the enhancement requirements, non-production and production fixes of the application. The candidate must have strong interpersonal skills, working with stakeholders and support teams across the globe.

As for the Software Technical Analyst (Finance & Treasury Systems), the team will work together with the Finance & Treasury Systems team that manages a complex SOX compliant infrastructure with many inter-related components that provide the repository of financial information required to support the Source of Earnings and other general ledger financial reporting at MFC. They will also support the Enterprise-wide critical cash management and treasury solutions including the banking interfaces.

NOTE: Decision on role (if Actuarial/Reinsurance OR Finance/Treasury) will be finalized after the interviews (hiring process)

Have the skills and knowledge for the job? Learn more about the opening below!

Key Responsibilities (Actuarial & Reinsurance):

• Support non-production and Production operations and fixes
• Work with offshore support team and vendor to implement fixes and changes
• Cater to the requirements for enhancement and changes from business
• Participate in meetings with both onshore and offshore to ensure clarity of individual objectives, priorities, and solutions for barriers to progress
• Participate actively in the projects and prioritization discussions with business
• Report to and work with the TAI Senior Business Analyst on the tasks at hand
• Coordinate work tasks with Vendor to ensure changes are delivered successfully and on time
• Schedule may rotate between Asia, Mid or North America time - to adjust to meet with the global team and support weekend work for deployments or production requirements.

Key Responsibilities (Finance & Treasury):

• Collaborate with Finance & Treasury business team and stakeholders to uncover pain points and opportunities to accelerate the delivery of new business value through software, infrastructure, and services.
• Effectively support Manulife’s complex Finance & Treasury systems and enhance existing processes for financial reporting in a large dynamic client server & intranet web environment
• Maintain and support these delivery services, with accountability for production reliability and usage, and the delivery of new functionality.
• Support non-production and production operations and fixes.
• Work with support teams and vendor to implement fixes and changes.
• Work on a rotating schedule, with flexibility to adjust to meet with the global team and support weekend deployments or production requirements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or any related course
• 3-5 years of experience with at least 3 of the following:
  • ETL (Informatica)
  • Batch scheduling tools (CAWLA, CA, CTRL-M)
  • Relational Database (SQL/Oracle)
  • Unix and Unix scripting
  • Microsoft Azure and Azure Data Lake
  • Reporting (PowerBI / Qlikview)
  • Oracle Hyperion Essbase
  • JAVA
  • Python
  • Jira / Confluence
  • Windows Powershell
  • Bitmap
• Amenable to work in UP Ayala Technohub (Quezon City)
• Amenable to work on a hybrid set-up (3x a week onsite)
• Amenable to work in any shift schedule assigned (day/mid/night; flexible depending on business need)

Actuarial & Reinsurance:

• Knowledge and application of change & release management, ITIL4 & project management, including cost assessment
• Familiarity with agile principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other approaches to accelerate the delivery of new features
• Understanding of software development lifecycle

Finance & Treasury:

• Experience with agile and DevOps principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other approaches to accelerate the delivery of new features
• Familiarity with ITIL4 Framework and ServiceNow platform
• Experience in supporting ERP tools (e.g. Infor Lawson, SAP)
• Working knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins etc.
• Working knowledge of FTP processes and network interfaces, HTML, XML, and industry standard parsers.
• A capacity for constant learning from both success and failure, remaining open to change and continuous improvement.

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This Position Description is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by employees in this job. It is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for this job classification.

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