• Research hardware and software solutions and create plans, including layouts and product specifications, for all data communication networks resulting from meeting
• Present findings in report format to appropriate personnel and explain how the new communications network will address current issues
• Secure all hardware and software required for network solutions or supervise network administrator tasked with securing all hardware and software
• Plan out network installation and/or upgrade project, assign milestone tasks to support personnel and meet company deadlines for full implementation, including network and user station set-ups and permissions, installation of all software and end-user security
• Assign and supervise network support staff in their daily activities and during special projects
• Write and implement networking protocols company-wide and department policies and procedures
• Research and analyze new network technologies and present suggestions for upgrades to improve existing communications network
• Configure and install software, servers, routers and other network devices
• Monitor network performance and integrity
• Resolve issues tiers of support have escalated by troubleshooting cloud and local infrastructure
• Automate tasks and monitor their effectiveness
• Mentor team members on technical issues
• Create, oversee and test security measures (e.g. access authentication and disaster recovery)
• Communicate with users when needed
• Maintain complete technical documentation

The IT Specialist is responsible for managing and maintaining the organization's IT infrastructure, including servers, laptops, mobile devices, software, and hardware. This role involves ensuring the efficient operation of IT systems, troubleshooting technical issues, implementing software and hardware upgrades, and providing technical support to end-users.

Key Responsibilities:

Server Management

• Install, configure, and maintain server hardware and software.
• Monitor server performance and ensure optimal uptime.
• Implement security measures to safeguard server integrity.
• Collaborate with network administrators to ensure seamless connectivity.
  

Laptop Management

• Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot laptops for employees.
• Install and update necessary software and applications.
• Implement security protocols for laptop usage.
• Provide technical support for laptop-related issues.

Mobile Management

• Manage and configure mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets.
• Ensure mobile device security and enforce compliance with organizational policies.
• Assist in the implementation of Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve mobile device-related issues.

Software Management

• Oversee the installation and maintenance of software applications.
• Collaborate with departments to assess software needs and recommend solutions.
• Implement software updates, patches, and license management.
• Provide training and support to end-users on software usage.

Hardware Management

• Manage and maintain computer hardware, including desktops and peripherals.
• Conduct hardware upgrades and replacements as needed.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot hardware issues.
• Collaborate with vendors for hardware procurement and warranty support.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience as an IT Specialist or similar role.
• In-depth knowledge of server, laptop, mobile, software, and hardware management.
• Familiarity with relevant technologies and industry best practices.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team.
• Certifications in relevant technologies (e.g., Microsoft, Cisco) is a plus.
• With Programming skills is a plus

Job Description

Summary
We’re looking for a technical business analyst to join our Middle Office Technology team in Hong Kong or Singapore to support development teams across trade processing, regulatory reporting, confirmation/affirmation and settlement, PnL calculation, and other areas of the firm.

A Career with Point72’s Technology Team
As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology group is constantly improving our company’s IT infrastructure, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts experimenting, discovering new ways to harness the power of open-source solutions, and embracing enterprise agile methodology. We encourage professional development to ensure you bring innovative ideas to our products while satisfying your own intellectual curiosity.

The Middle Office Technology Team supports trade processing, position keeping, and trade management systems. The team partners with middle office/regulatory reporting business users to customize and implement solutions to support trade processing scale and stability.

What you’ll do
• Define requirements for OTC derivatives reporting changes mandated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore
• Analyze business requirements and translate into implementation specifications, including enhancement requests, large-scale projects, and system redesigns
• Work with business users and development teams to define clear and testable acceptance criteria
• Document existing and proposed data and process flows
• Assist in the creation of quality assurance testing plans and serve as a business user surrogate in UAT testing efforts as needed
• Work with the team lead to organize, maintain, and track capacities, velocities, statuses, and deliverables
• Serve as scrum master for the development team

What’s required
• 5+ years of business analysis experience in the financial industry
• Knowledge of financial products including fixed income, credit, equities, and derivatives
• Familiarity with post-execution trade flows, settlement and confirmation workflows, profit and loss calculations, as well as systems supporting those processes
• Solid technical background and fluency in the software development life cycle and SDLC tools (JIRA)
• Experience creating data flow diagrams, business requirements documents, quality assurance plans, and data conversion / deployment plans
• Experience with SQL Server and other data warehouse technologies, as well as data analysis
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards
• Experience holding scrum meetings, tracking team capacity and velocity, and forecasting completion
• Knowledge of regulatory reporting regimes (e.g. MAS, MiFID II) including OTC Derivatives Reporting
• Basic programming experience/ability to read application code

Sitting within Reserve Management department, the front office business analyst / product owner is responsible for managing the applications and processes used for portfolio management and trading of assets managed in-house.

Responsibilities include

• Work closely with portfolio management and trading functions to understand their business requirements, translating business-to-technical requirements and vice versa
• Design, build/enhance, test, implement and document processes/tools/systems in partnership with IT, middle and back offices as well as software vendors to support front office workflow
• Plan and work with department and company-wide partners on implementing road map of front-office workflow feature development / upgrades
• Ensure front office processes and procedures meet internal standards for data integrity, security and auditability
• Monitor, analyse and troubleshoot front office processes to ensure their smooth functioning.
• Manage project implementations with vendors, covering procurement and related administrative issues;
• Oversee change management to facilitate the users to product adoption and new ways of working.

Requirements:

• An undergraduate degree in business-related or IT-related fields
• Preferably 5-10 years relevant working experience, including product management/ownership or system used in similar functions, preferably in investment or financial domain
• Strong sense of ownership and growth mindset
• Strong analytical skills and critical thinking with good problem-solving skills
• Good understanding of user-centric principles and/or service design
• Adept communicator (both written and verbal) with the ability to effectively convey complex information to stakeholders across all levels
• Experience working in cross-functional groups, representing views of different stakeholders and influencing teams towards achieving shared goal

Our client is actively searching for a Sales Executive/ Assistant Manager (Solutions) to join their team!
If you are a dynamic individual seeking a new career opportunity, read further!

The responsibilities of this role are:

• Support sales team in solution and colour sales.
• Prospecting and identifying new market opportunities and establish new solution business model.
• Maintain and build good working relationship with existing and new customers and distributors.
• Formulate effective sales strategies to ensure share market share gains, increased profitability.
• Management of solution sales cycle includes analyzing customer requirements, preparation of sales proposals, testing of solutions, solution demonstration and installation.
• Conduct solution training for Sales Team and distributors.
• Management of projects development and implementation.
• Hosting of Webinars.
• Analyze industrial trends and competitive landscape and execution of market research to identify new business opportunities and attainment of sales target.
• Keep abreast on government grant and policy.

The ideal candidate will need to have the following qualities and experience:

• Possess Diploma in Computer Science or Engineering or relevant discipline.
• Possess experience in IT control or related field.
• Refined business acumen for customer and vendor management.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Knowledge in Colour Management and Managed Print Services is an advantage.
• Experience in Document Solutions Life Cycle is preferred.

An exciting career awaits the right candidate! Click "Quick Apply" to register your interest now.

All applicants' CV will be treated with the strictest confidentiality. We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Responsibilities

As a Consultant/Senior Consultant in the Risk Management – Financial Crime Compliance team, you will be expected to provide strategic sourcing services related to regulatory compliance, Financial Crime Compliance (FCC), corporate governance, enterprise risk management, internal controls, and internal audit, to our clients in financial services (FS) industry.

You are also required to assist organizations to maintain effective and efficient controls, in order to manage organizational and strategic risks.

Skills/Requirement

Min. 1 year relevant Financial Crime Compliance (AML/ CFT, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption and Fraud) experience in banking, insurance, asset management, and/or in a big public accounting firm.

• Strong understanding of expectations of regulators such as MAS and HKMA. Knowledge of other ASEAN jurisdictions’ AML regulations and environment, and practical experience in the industry a plus.

• Knowledge of the global risk and regulatory environment

• Graduate degree in law, finance or commerce preferred.

• Industry related certification (e.g., CAMS or ICA diploma in AML)

• Demonstrate strong planning, execution and reporting skills

• Analytical skills; specifically, the ability to assess and decompose financial services industry processes utilizing a risk and control focus

• Point-of-contact (POC) in dept to guide managers on contract lifecycle management workflow and works closely with internal stakeholders to ensure governance requirements (working closely with Group Procurement Services team) are met, where relevant.
• Tracks department non-outsourcing contracts and ensure renewals are done timely
• Guide managers to ensure contracts are lodged timely in the procurement system,where necessary
• Ensure proper contract document management, where necessary
• Participate in relevant system implementation/enhancement UATs where required
• Manage vendor test managed capacity contract billings
• Any other adhoc tasks assigned by the manager

Requirements:

• At least 3-4 years working with procurement-related/contractual matters
• Possesses strong subject matter knowledge on RFx processes, including contract initiations and reviews (knowledge on common contractual clauses and terminologies) to ensure,
• Risks are mitigated and/or managed in timely fashion,
• Contract Owner is not disadvantaged by proposed clauses
• Internal/external regulatory and governance processes are complied with
• Attention to details, and ability to raise issues when required
• Familiar with using MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
• Experience in using any procurement system is preferred
• Familiar with project financials advantageous
• Must be firm and be able to converse with senior managers on concerns or issues in an appropriate manner
• Comfortable working with sensitive data

To apply please click the Apply button or send us your updated profile to [email protected]

EA Licence No.:18S9405 / EA Reg. No.:R1330864

Percept Solutions is undergoing a growth phase and are on the lookout for talent. Applicants are encouraged to follow Percept Solutions on LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/company/percept-solutions/ to stay up to date on our upcoming roles and events.

Optimum Solutions (Registration Number: 199700895N) is Singapore's leading Information Technology , Consulting and Professional Services company with Competence in Digital Transformation, Automation, Robotics, Cloud, Big Data, Analytics and Emerging technologies projects. Optimum has been successfully delivering IT projects since 1997 and has been a key IT service provider to clients delivering Software Design, Development, Engineering and IT Transformation Projects.

Role : IT Documentation Analyst / ICT Technical Writer

• Has at least 5+ years of experience in SDLC

Must have below experience,

• Highly skilled in formal process documentation.
• Expert in preparing and presenting succinct PowerPoint slides to executive level stakeholders
• Must have working experience in Software Development Methodology (SDM) documentation.
• In addition, there is a potential piece of work to update an existing formal Agile System/Software Delivery Document (SDD).

Domain - Banking

The Opportunity

• Helping my banking client look for a Business Analyst to join the team
• 12 months contract

The Job

1. Leverage on data analytics knowledge & experience to facilitate to uncover the data breaks.
2. Go through daily reconciliation report or schedule query via database to identify anomalies and discrepancies, find out root cause and implement corrective measures.
3. Oversee and responsible for ensuring data quality and fitness for purpose of data assets.
4. Able to articulate clearly the problem statement observed after investigation of the data breaks.
5. Monitor & engage in the ongoing and detailed evaluation & trending of data quality.
6. Ensuring data integrity, assess and improve data quality, oversee data from cradle to grave and remediate data quality issue.
7. Collate, manage, rationalise, associated with technology team to support in impact assessment, fix data quality issue, UAT and support implementation and live verification.
8. Actively partnering with the technology team in the solution's process to ensure that the business solutions being implemented are thought through from a long term, standardization, design for no operations, front-end configuration perspective.

The Talent

• Candidates with banking reconcilation experiences will be preferred

Skills preferred:

• 2-4 years of analysis and synthesis skills
• 2-4 years of Project Management Skills
• 1-2 years of SQL
• >1 year of experience in Qlikview

Next Step

• We could contact you in the soonest time if you directly send your resume to: [email protected]
• We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

The Write Connection Group is a premier education group in Singapore with 13 centres across the island and a head office. We are looking for an IT Executive to join our Internal Operations Department to support our growth and expansion in Singapore and overseas.

Responsibilities

• Manage IT requests and provide IT support to TWC Group centres and head office, and ensure all IT tickets are responded to and resolved in a timely manner.
• Plan and conduct regular checks, analysis, diagnosis and troubleshooting for all TWC Group premises to ensure all software and hardware are up to date and effective, so as to prevent any possible disruptions in daily operations.
• Assist with the review, update and implementation of IT policies, SOPs and processes based on departmental needs, to minimise vulnerabilities, boost productivity and increase efficiency of IT systems and processes.
• Set up and maintain drives for all regular IT-related SOPs, guidelines, accounts, inventory and records, as well as other related information for IT Team and key stakeholders’ reference.
• Conduct research and maintain up-to-date understanding of the latest threats, vulnerabilities, mitigation, IT security, industry best practices, regulations.
• Provide all TWC staff with the necessary IT equipment and access to relevant company resources. Maintain and update an inventory for all IT equipment and access information.
• Perform installation, setup, configuration, migration, upgrading and testing of software applications, IT equipment and network.
• Provide IT support for company events (e.g. Town Hall Meeting and Staff Appreciation Night).
• Other IT related tasks and scopes.

Requirements:

• Possess at least a Diploma (preferably IT, Computer Science, or a related discipline).
• Fresh graduates are welcome to apply. For Senior IT Executive, at least 2 years’ experience in the IT field in a relevant role is required.
• Responsible and solution-oriented.
• Ability to learn to use Google Workplace (Sheets, Forms, App Script etc). Familiar or able to efficiently learn to handle HTML/CSS, Mac platform, Apple systems and devices.
• Able to organise tasks and work efficiently to meet tight deadlines with minimum supervision.
• Technically savvy and self-motivated learner.
• Possess excellent communication and task management skills.
• Proficiency in spoken and written Mandarin is a plus as future work will involve collaboration with international teams based in other countries in Asia.

Work Hours and Location:

• Work Days: 5-day work week (4 weekdays and 1 weekend). The weekend may be a Sat or Sun depending on roster.
• Work Shifts:
  • Weekdays: 10.30am - 7.30pm / 12.30pm - 9.30pm depending on the roster
  • Weekends: 8.30am - 6.30pm
• Work Location: TWC HQ, Guthrie House, Bukit Timah. (Candidates may be required to travel to various TWC centres when the need arises.)

Note to Applicant:

1. Please state your earliest start date.
2. Send your CV to [email protected]

Job Purpose

Analyze, design, develop and maintain of IT applications, including documentation and post-implementation customer support.

Job Responsibilities & Duties

• Analyze, design, program, test, document and maintain IT systems or applications

• Provide maintenance support to customers (internal and/or external) by investigating and rectifying reported systems shortcomings.

• Analyze requests for enhancements/changes and write amendment/program specifications.

• Update system documentation.

• Perform and manage stages of the SDLC and participate in the systems review with Project Lead/Manager.

• Understand the interdependencies of the services (application, system and database) and able to pin-point problem areas accurately to improve overall efficiency.

• Design and document system design, architecture and propose appropriate technologies and tools required to implement systems; and ensure users sign-off on design specifications.

• Use development tools to develop applications for better productivity.

• Develop test cases, conduct SIT, load test and tune the performance of systems to meet SLA.

• Deploy systems to production and provide post-implementation support.

• Provide technical guidance to junior colleagues in their work.

• Keep abreast of technological advancement, emerging standards and new software or hardware solutions that may affect decisions about system builds or enhancements.

• Any other duties as and when assigned.

Experience required:

• Must have 1 to 2 years experience in Agile Development and with a good understanding of Agile delivery.

• Plus point: Good to have 1 to 2 years of Low code platform experience such as Mendix, Outsystem etc.

• Possess good experience developing Java EE web application and

Java UI frameworks

• Certifications in Java, Java EE etc preferred

• Some project leading experience in IT will be an added advantage

• 3-5 years of experience in systems analysis, design, programming with knowledge of one or more of the following technologies:

o Java, Java EE

o Struts, JSF, Spring, EJB, Hibernate, !Batis

o Weblogic Application Server, Elixir, Oracle DB, LDAP, MQ Series

o JBoss Application Server, Apache Tomcat, ESB

o Oracle Database, SQL, PL/SQL