Senior Analyst, Accounting Products – Technical

Location: Edinburgh

Job Title

Department

Accounting Products-BG-UK

Overview of Department

The Fund and Accounting Operations Department is responsible for the provision of accounting services to Baillie Gifford’s range of pooled funds, shareholders, and segregated clients. Key responsibilities include the production of unit prices/NAVs for our UK OEICs and Investment Trusts and the maintenance of an accounting book of record for our global Fund ranges and segregated clients.

Our Accounting Products teams are an integral part of the Department, providing technical, operational and governance support for the firm’s accounting systems; and leading change initiatives to ensure the service we provide is first class service to our clients and internal stakeholders.

Purpose of Role

Provide functionality and technical support for the Firms Accounting Products applications (Optima, Icon and NavQuest) and participate in projects to shape the applications to meet the Firms requirements and implement automated solutions in line with the Firms goals.

The team provide business support 7am-5pm, and on-call support from 5pm to midnight Mon-Fri with occasional Saturday cover as required.

Responsibilities

• Provide application in-depth analysis & solution delivery on a continuous basis.
• Work with Operational areas and colleagues in Information Systems to analyse and assess the best options for delivering functional business solutions, both ad hoc and as part of organisation wide projects.
• Work in partnership with vendors to shape the applications so they continually meet our current & future business requirements.
• Use application specific tools such as Report Writer to tailor the application to meet operational requirements.
• Maintain application servers, both in Production and Development, ensuring system integrity and availability.
• Deliver high quality documentation surrounding projects, system enhancements and functionality changes.
• Delivery of bespoke application training to end users.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of systems and production environments.