For the past 25 years, Sequel Business Solutions has grown to becoming a leading insurance and reinsurance software specialist. With our headquarters based in the City of London , and our development hub in Malaga, Spain, we employ talented insurance and technical experts who understand the market and our clients' business. To learn more about Sequel, please visit us at: https://sequel.com/. We are proud to be a part of the Verisk family of companies! 

At the heart of what we do is help clients manage risk. Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) provides data and insights to our customers in insurance, energy and the financial services markets so they can make faster and more informed decisions.   

Our global team uses AI, machine learning, automation, and other emerging technologies to collect and analyze billions of records. We provide advanced decision-support to prevent credit, lending, and cyber risks. In addition, we monitor and advise companies on complex global matters such as climate change, catastrophes, and geopolitical issues.  

But why we do our work is what sets us apart. It stems from a commitment to making the world better, safer and stronger.  

Role Purpose: We place a premium on meeting our customers' high expectations of our products. Through contracted support services our support team plays a key role in post implementation processes, as well as in the longer-term customer experience.

The purpose of this role is to help deliver contracted Business-As-Usual support services typically adhering to ITIL v3 framework of Service Transition, Service Operations and Continuous Service Improvement.  A Business Support Analyst is qualified in, (or has a number of years of experience in), IT services who provides an exemplary support service to Sequel’s highly valued clients putting the client’s needs at the forefront of everything Sequel does.

Main Responsibilities: 

• Have a detailed understanding (including the rationale and benefits) of & be proficient in executing and adhering to department processes.
• Working within a team environment, persons fulfilling this role will be responsible for investigating and resolving application and system issues across multiple products.
• Through IT Service Management tooling to collect information relating to client requirements pertaining to incidents and service requests.
• Escalating/engaging with Technical Support, development and service delivery management teams as required.
• Have a strong knowledge of the business processes and associated products which Sequel sells to help clients deliver their business processes.
• Developing an understanding of customer’s business and operational environment.
• Enhancing product knowledge and help centre articles to support both business and technical understanding.
• Prioritising issues according to business impact and workload, and escalating within the Business Support team as needed.
• Manage time optimally to ensure contract service level agreements and client expectations are managed and met.
• Attend regular client meetings and engage with key stakeholders in projects and client support teams.
• Be capable of providing basic levels of training as needed internally and externally.
• Visit client offices, and work remotely alongside clients as needed according to demands and any upgrades/periods of increased risk.
• Participate in Service transition, ensuring readiness for projects moving to BAU.
• Ensure that any risks are raised with senior management or via standard process.
• Ensure that client’s data is secure and properly managed. 
• Any other duties commensurate to the grade of the role.

Knowledge and Experience

NB Candidates MUST be eligible to work in the UK, we are UNABLE to support visa applications

This will be an OFFICE based role, in a fantastic new CITY of London location

Essential 

• A formal tertiary qualification, preferably a completed degree in computer science, business information systems or similar.
• Acquired experience (2+ years) within a customer-facing software support role.
• Able to communicate effectively with both customers (technical and non-technical) and internal stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills – demonstrate ability to investigate and resolve a variety of software issues, business process focused to more technical database issues.
• Affinity for working with complex software products.
• Ability to prioritise and resolve issues to high standards.Confidence to seek support of peers and management as required.
• Good grasp of Microsoft Office.
• Understanding of relational databases and server architecture and a proficient ability to write SQL queries.

Desirable

• Strong levels of SQL database query writing.
• Experience working in the insurance industry (especially London Market – Underwriting and/or Broking).
• Understanding of SQL Server Management Studio / SQL Server Profiler.
• Proficient with SQL Server Query Analyser.
• Exposure to web technologies – IIS / CSS / XML.
• AWS Dynatrace

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