| Company Overview |
Markit is a leading, global financial information services company with over 1,900 employees. The company provides independent data, valuations and trade processing across all asset classes in order to enhance transparency, reduce risk and improve operational efficiency. Its client base includes the most significant institutional participants in the financial marketplace.
With over 1,500 institutions using our independent services as clients - including investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, rating agencies and insurance companies - we provide round-the-clock support from our offices in London, New York, Dallas, Toronto, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Henley on Thames, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney.
Markit is an entrepreneurial company and a fast-growing business. We continue to expand our presence around the world and offer exciting career opportunities across sales, customer support, product management, information technology and professional services. |
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| Department Overview |
| Engineering Services |
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| Role Summary |
| MarkitSERV seeks a MarkitWire Associate Integration Consultant/BA.
The candidate will be accountable to the MarkitSERV API Integration Manager and will work with new clients wishing to implement straight through processing (STP) by integrating their systems with MarkitWire, and with existing clients looking to adopt new functionality.
The candidate must be business focused as well as being technically literate, and will become an SME for the MarkitWire API. This is a programmable interface which enables clients to integrate between MarkitWire their own front, middle and back-office systems to facilitate straight through processing (STP)
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| Duties and Responsibilities |
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| Support established integration process and make recommendations for improvement |
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| Assist customers to implement STP solutions using the MarkitWire API |
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| Work with customers to build extensible and reusable tactical utilities based on the MarkitWire API for actions not available through the core product, and raise issues to core product team for strategic solutions |
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| Respond as required to customer inquiries in the pre-production environment and coordinate resolution with appropriate resources across multiple functional and geographical teams |
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| Support and assist strategic initiatives to roll out new functionality |
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| Produce best practice documentation |
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| Co-ordinate external Integration working groups as required |
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| Assist with test planning, execution and reporting, including writing, reviewing and executing manual test scripts |
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| Process Management
Assist in the development of estimates for projects
Contribute to defining time tables and project plans
Assist in the definition of milestones
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| Technology Architecture
Maintain knowledge of the business’s current technology and infrastructure
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| Business Competences |
| Educational Experience |
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| Must be a fluent Japanese speaker |
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| Must have a thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle |
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| Must have strong analytical and problem solving skills |
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| Must have a relevant academic background (finance) and/or BA experience in financial markets |
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| Knowledge of XML desirable |
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| Any experience working in a client-facing role would be an advantage |
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| Development experience desirable |
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| Commercial Awareness |
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| Must have the ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines |
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| Must be service driven with strong customer orientation |
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| Understanding of Financial markets required |
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Personal Competences |
| Personal Impact |
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| Able to inspire confidence with clients |
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| Self-starter who can “own” projects and work independently when needed |
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| Highly motivated and eager to take the initiative |
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| Flexible and able to adapt to changing situations |
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| Strong work ethic |
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| Communication |
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| Strong written and oral communication skills and high degree of professionalism |
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| Teamwork |
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| Strong team player who is comfortable working at all levels of the business |
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| Strongly identify with corporate vision and personally aligns with both corporate and product short and long term goals |
Contact Details |
| Interested applicants should send their CV and a covering letter to careers.asiapacific@markit.com citing “ Associate, Integration /BA, Tokyo” in the subject line. |
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Due to the high volume of applications we receive for each of our roles we are unable to respond on an individual basis. If you have not received a response within 2 weeks of having submitted your details, it is likely that your application has not been successful on this occasion.
Please state in your covering letter that you are eligible to work in the location that we are seeking to make this appointment. We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer.
We kindly and respectfully request agencies not to submit applications.
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