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Join our Portfolio Management Systems (PMS) Support pillar, where you’ll play a key role in the onboarding and support of hedge funds and asset managers. You will implement and maintain workflows for onboarding, engage with external counterparties and act as a reliable technical advisor to clients.
What You'll Do
- Technical Support & Resolution: Provide hands-on technical support for PMS users. Investigate and resolve complex challenges across trading, trade lifecycle, P&L, and reporting, serving as a primary point of contact before escalating to development or senior stakeholders.
- Process Execution & Analysis: Execute established frameworks for technical issue triage and root cause analysis. Use data-driven insights to identify trends and suggest improvements to increase operational efficiency for the team.
- Client & Broker Engagement: Build positive relationships with clients, external counterparties, and internal partners. Ensure smooth onboarding experiences and provide timely, high-quality support responses; assist in managing client communications during critical incidents.
- System Documentation & Compliance: Maintain accurate system documentation and provide feedback for the product roadmap based on user needs.
- Collaboration & Feedback: Work closely with QA, Development, and Product teams. Provide detailed feedback on feature enhancements and help test major releases. Participate in knowledge-sharing sessions to improve team capabilities.
- Tooling & Optimization: Utilize and configure support tools (e.g., monitoring solutions, automation scripts) to enhance workflow efficiency and advocate for client needs within the product development cycle.
What We're Looking For
Required Skills
- Bachelor’s degree required, ideally in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
- 3–5 years of relevant experience in technical support, application support, or systems analysis within financial services. Familiarity with portfolio management systems or trading platforms is highly preferred.
- Understanding of financial industry, products and experience adhering to operational controls.
Desired Skills
- Strong proficiency in Python, scripting, and data analysis; experience working with cloud platforms (AWS is a plus) and troubleshooting technical issues.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical details to non-technical stakeholders.
- A collaborative mindset with a willingness to share knowledge and help onboard new team members.
- Familiarity with client support platforms (e.g., Zendesk, Jira); experience utilizing helpdesk workflows.
- Solid understanding of financial markets, instruments, and the trade lifecycle; ability to prioritize issues based on business impact.
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.
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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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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.
