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The Citco Group of Companies is a very rapidly expanding global organization specialized in fiduciary services, fund administration and other financial services on behalf of international operating companies, multinationals, private equity firms, corporate clients, private investors and their advisors. Currently our organization employs more than 3,000 people in more than 60 offices worldwide.

We are expanding our global support team within the Citco Group in Halifax, NS therefore we are looking for a talented, motivated and pro-active 

Senior Application Support Analyst
(m/f, 40 hrs per week)
4AM AST – 12P AST

As Senior Application Support Analyst you will perform helpdesk duties and provide support to the user community of a wide range of mainly financial applications used by the Citco Group, Corporate & Trust, and Funds Services division of Citco. The main applications you will support are: Coda (General ledger), ICorp (time entry & billing), OCRA (financial consolidation), Business objects (reporting) and Viewpoint (client administration).

Your key tasks and responsibilities are:

• The administration and resolution of support requests coming from the users of these applications;
• Maintaining these applications and installing client components of these applications on PC's;
• Installing and implementing new releases of these applications;
• Running ad-hoc database queries;
• Communicating with the user community.

Qualifications and Experience: the following will be highly regarded:

• Bachelor degree, with knowledge of the basic principles of accounting;
• A minimum three years experience providing application support (working in a helpdesk or similar environment) preferably in the financial sector;
• A minimum three years experience with MS SQL server database administration and use of applications running on MS SQL databases
• 3+ years experience developing SQL queries
• 3+ years experience with Data Management including extracting, manipulating, and migrating data between application databases or for reporting purposes
• Experience with the following applications/tools highly desirable: Coda, iCorp, OCRA, ViewPoint, ETL, Data Warehousing 
• 2+ years experience installing and configuring application software  
• Preferred Programming/technology experience including: HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, ASP, VBScript, VB 6, VB.NET, C#.NET, ASP.NET, Win Forms, COM Interop, COM, SQL Server (6.5, 7.0, 2000 & 2005), TSQL, 
• Preferred Reporting experience with Crystal Reports, Business Objects and SQL Server 2005 reporting services.
• Able to work in a high-pressured environment;
• Able to work in a team and also autonomously; 
• Able to set priorities, to be flexible and highly accurate;
• Fluent in English and preferably other languages as well.

We offer you: a challenging job in a rapidly expanding international company, a friendly and interesting place to work. There is the opportunity to expand your business knowledge with excellent prospects for a further international career in one of our worldwide offices. On request and if possible we can offer courses or other learning facilities and on top of that excellent primary and secondary conditions of employment.

Please email resumes to:  employment@citco.com

Please quote competition number SASA0508-CB in your resume.