http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk test description en-us Sat, 25 May 2013 20:54:48 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 20:54:48 GMT http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/rss/ Weblog Editor 2.0 editor@example.com webmaster@example.com http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123082/IT-Operations-Team-Leader.html We are looking for an experienced team leader with excellent customer management skills to join our London-based Managed Service contracts as IT Operations Team Leader. Our successful Managed Service business division provides a comprehensive range of technical support services to schools using RM educational products and solutions. Services are delivered via dedicated teams of site and field based Support Engineers and Technical Support Specialists with helpdesk, technical, product and logistical support services provided remotely from the main RM office. Reporting directly to the Regional Operations Manager, as IT Operations Team Leader you will manage a team of up to 15 technical staff and you will be responsible for day to day delivery of all managed service in accordance with contractual service level agreements. You will ensure contractual compliance and improved operational efficiency whilst maximising levels of customer satisfaction by developing and maintaining excellent relationships with key customer contacts, through regular site visits, meetings and management of escalated issues.
Key responsibilities Co-ordinate and control all day to day service delivery activity per managed service contract Ensure service is delivered to a high quality and meets contractual commitments Line manage a geographically dispersed team of technical support staff Identify and deliver service improvements Visit project sites regularly to audit service delivery activity and review staff performance Co-ordinate technical escalations Oversee and implement technical change requests Maintain, develop and implement processes to refine and enhance the managed service provision Manage delivery of relevant projects including hardware refresh Maintain excellent customer relationships and high levels of customer satisfaction Provide regular reporting to line manager, customer and SDM to meet agreed requirements
Skills & experience Significant experience of managing day to day delivery of an IT managed service Capable people manager Good commercial awareness including experience of operational cost centre management Excellent customer management skills Excellent planning and organising skills, with significant ability to multitask Efficient escalation management and reporting. Benefits Working for RM you would be entitled to the following benefits: 25 Days Annual Leave (option to buy an extra 5 days) Personal & Company related Bonus Scheme Group Personal Pension Private Medical Healthcare Income Protection Life Assurance More Information If you'd like more information about our roles or working for RM, login to "RM Talk" via our careers homepage on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 12.30 - 1.30pm and chat live to a member of our recruitment team.]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 16:59:20 GMT http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123082/IT-Operations-Team-Leader.html http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123076/Sharepoint-Business-Analyst.html Avanade UK is looking to hire experienced business analysts ideally with a strong background in projects based on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. This role will be critical in order to help us to engage with our business customers and ensure adoption of collaboration and social computing tools within the enterprise.

The purpose of a business analyst on collaboration projects is to act as the interception point between the business and technical team. As such, you will be responsible for understanding our customers' business processes and translating these into a set of requirements as well as developing functional designs for the solution. You will be used to working with technology platforms that enable users to work together on solutions - ideally this will be a several years' experience of the Microsoft SharePoint platform, but experience of other technologies such as Jive, IBM Lotus or Oracle will also be seen as valuable.

As a business analyst with a passion for collaboration technologies, you will be a key part of the Avanade team, working closely alongside our creative staff, developers, engineers and architects to enable us to deliver a holistic solution out to our customer. You will need to understand the strengths and benefits of the Microsoft platform in terms of its key functional breakdown and how Avanade add value from our assets, processes, partners and people.

To be successful in the role, you'll need to understand how collaborative technologies can benefit our customers and where upcoming capabilities, such as records management or social computing could change the way that people work together expanding their networks, simplifying their working life or achieving their goals. You'll also be expected to be able educate business users.

Involved throughout the project life cycle, a Business Analyst works with our customers to understand as-is and to-be business process flows and requirements, as well as how information flows and changes through the business. The Business Analyst uses this information to assist in the design of the optimal IT solution and works closely with the development team through implementation. The Business Analyst will also provide pre-sales support to the Regional Sales team and will be a key participant on proposal efforts.

A Business Analyst must possess excellent communication skills, both written and oral, and must have the ability to effectively bridge the gap between the business and IT organizations. A Business Analyst must possess the ability to quickly adapt and contribute to solution design across a broad range of industries.

PRIMARY Responsibilities:

Sales Support (10%)
-Determine and translate customer needs into an Avanade solution and approach
-Contribute to proposal development
-Deliver quality written presentations
-Provide scope, approach, and estimating input to the proposal team

Analysis and Solution Definition (50%)
-Elicit and document business requirements within well-defined business processes
-Interface with customers to manage expectations and resolve issues
-Analyze and document business requirements and translate these to specification and design
-Assist in documentation of current and desired business processes
-Execute assigned tasks within a structured project environment
-Support and provide input to the technical design of solution components
-Help coordinate activities between technical staff, system users, end user organizations, software programmers, system administrators, and managers

Project Execution (40%)
-Develop functional scenario based test scripts; develop test data in support of User Acceptance Testing
-Interface with development team to implement solution
-Participate in knowledge transfer to customer
-Conduct training sessions and produce user documentation

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

Functional
-Process documentation and analysis
-Ability to effectively facilitate team and customer meetings
-Ability to specify system requirements for business processes (data, presentation, and logic)
-Requirement elicitation methods and analysis/management tools
-Strong understanding of software development and implementation life cycle
-Understanding of architecture, framework and object model that support the business application to be implemented

Microsoft Products
- SharePoint 2007/2010
- PowerPoint, Word, Excel
-Team Foundation Server/Visual Studio
-Visio
-Project (working knowledge)
-Microsoft certification a plus
-Understanding of concepts and applications of Microsoft technologies preferred

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:
-University degree required
-Proven Business Analysis experience in the MOSS space
-Prior consulting experience (internal or external) preferred
-Experience with at least one software development methodology preferred

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:
-Experience participating in requirements gathering process for IT systems
-Strong client interface and presentation skills
-Strong business acumen
-Track record of initiative and outstanding performance
-Excellent interpersonal skills-'Customer Focus'
-Manages customer expectations effectively
-Ability to quickly build relationships
-Good written and verbal communication skills
-Passion for learning
-Strong time management skills
-Willingness to travel (80%)]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 15:59:00 GMT http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123076/Sharepoint-Business-Analyst.html http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123079/BI-Consultant.html Avanade was created by Accenture and Microsoft in 2000 to offer world-class consulting expertise based solely on the Microsoft software platform. Since then we have expanded to over 14,000 employees and now operate in 24 countries. Recognising the continually growing demand for Business Intelligence, we are growing our UK BI team and are seeking exceptional candidates at all levels, with ambition and track record in delivering game changing BI solutions. Our capabilities currently cover the full BI life cycle and include formulating BI strategy, building business cases, solution design and assurance, implementing enterprise-wide BI and Analytics solutions using the Microsoft Business Intelligence software stack and running outsourced analytic solutions. All positions would involve working on fee earning Business Intelligence engagements, providing professional advice and technical expertise on complex and often challenging projects. Engagements will be UK wide; therefore consultants are expected to travel and work away from home. You can expect the role to involve many of the following: Identifying client issues where Business Intelligence can deliver tangible benefits, shaping solutions and using them to deliver rapid improvements in performance to meet business needs Business analysis - engaging with client stakeholders at all levels, in both business and IT to drive out and prioritise requirements Designing and delivering Business Intelligence solutions for clients, utilising the full Microsoft Business Intelligence stack; including ETL, data warehousing, OLAP and reporting/analytics tools, and associated infrastructure considerations Data management design, including the description of data models, processes, and high level architectures including enterprise data management and governance JOB REQUIREMENTS
We are looking for candidates who are able to operate in teams that cover the full spectrum of BI disciplines. You will be able to demonstrate that you can make a significant contribution in some or all of the following areas: Consulting skills
Business consulting skills, identifying and developing BI needs towards a cost justified business solution
Experience of the full BI project life cycle from innovative ideas through to BAU BI capability
Knowledge of project and software delivery methodologies and ability to articulate the pros and cons of each in relation to the other, especially in relation to agile and more traditional waterfall approaches BI implementation and delivery skills
NB Previous experience of the Microsoft Business Intelligence software stack would be ideal but not essential, since full training will be provided.
BI solution design, showing end to end how the business objectives are delivered through the use of a BI data solution
Data architecture and design, covering conceptual, logical and physical BI data model design, ETL data flow design, data capture and transformation rules and processes. Knowledge of the leading data management tools on the market (both ETL and RDBMS)
Reporting and data presentation tool expertise, designing reporting and analytics delivery tools that support and deliver against business objectives. Knowledge of the leading reporting/data presentation/exploration on the market (covering reporting and charting, budgeting and planning, enterprise performance management, and analytics)
Database administration and setup - establishing a new BI technical environment and setting up an appropriate system and data management operating procedures
Experience in the use of leading BI reporting and analytics tools Preferred Educational Requirements
Educated to degree level. Further Information
Travel is an integral part of this position; although a majority of our work is based in the UK, candidates must be willing and able to travel as is required by the needs of our customers and our business. Although not frequent, this could also involve international assignments. In return we offer a very comprehensive package including market leading salaries, private healthcare, generous pension fund, an extended benefits allowance of £1,900 per annum and 25 days paid vacation.]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 15:59:00 GMT http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123079/BI-Consultant.html http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123080/Dynamics-CRM-Project-Manager.html Avanade UK is looking to hire an experienced Dynamics CRM Project Manager for our Microsoft Technology CRM team. This role will be critical in order to help maintain our market-leading position within the Microsoft CRM marketplace and in particular continue to be recognised as thought leaders in business solutions.

This is an exciting opportunity for the right individual to join the market leader in the delivery of enterprise scale Microsoft solutions, help our customers drive value through innovation, and be part of our success story.

Avanade offers its people superb working conditions such as career development and training programmes, collaborative culture and a focus on customers.

About the role

The Microsoft Project Manager typically performs a number of activities during a client engagement. The role involves working with a number of teams to perform or contribute to the following activities: Pre-sales, Project/Delivery Management, Onshore/Offshore team Matrix management and stakeholder management, project planning, and actively participate in global Avanade Microsoft Dynamics CRM community

We're looking for talented individuals with proven commercial experience of operating within consultancy-based environments, who are able to lead Dynamics CRM projects and interact with clients with a strong level of consultancy-oriented analysis and communication skills To be successful in the role you'll have detailed knowledge and experience of delivering full life cycle Microsoft Dynamics CRM implementations.

Candidates should ideally be Prince2 certified or PMI/PMP Accredited, and have a solid understanding of generally accepted project management principles.

Qualifications

Required Experience
- Experience of full life cycle Microsoft Dynamics CRM implementations
- Commercial aspects including contract negotiation
- Quality Management
- Budgeting and Cost Management
- Project Definition
- Requirements and Scope Management
- Documentation/Configuration Management
- Estimation, Planning and Scheduling
- Risk and Issue Management
- Stakeholder Management
- People Management
- Reporting

Other key skills should include leadership including accountability, communication including active listening, teamwork, conflict management and negotiation.

About us
Avanade provides business technology solutions and managed services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft® technologies to help customers realize results. Our people have helped thousands of organizations in all industries improve business agility, employee productivity, and customer loyalty. Avanade combines the collective business, technical and industry expertise of its worldwide network of experts with the rigor of an industrialized delivery model to provide high quality solutions using proven and emerging technologies with flexible deployment models-on premises, cloud-based or outsourced.

Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation and has approximately 15,000 professionals in more than 20 countries.

Thanks to our unique heritage we're perfectly placed to offer our customers deep technology expertise combined with industry-leading delivery capability.

Travel is an integral part of this position; candidates must be willing and able to travel within the UK as much as is required by the needs of our customers and our business. Although not frequent, this could also involve international assignments. In return we offer a very comprehensive package including a market leading salary, private healthcare, pension, an extended benefits allowance of £1,900 and performance related bonus.

You'll have ample opportunities for career growth and personal development, including technology and management training.]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 15:59:00 GMT http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123080/Dynamics-CRM-Project-Manager.html http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123081/FI-Rates-Senior-Tester---Senior-AVP---London.html Top Investment Bank is seeking a Senior Tester/Test Lead to work within their Fixed Income Rates eTrading team. The team is currently 4 people in London and you will be required to provide day to day leadership for them. This is a hands-on role focusing on both manual and automation testing. The successful candidate will have excellent experience as a tester using either Java or C#, as well as experience of testing methodologies and end to end testing. The successful individual will have also been involved in several high profile projects. This is a permanent position at Senior AVP Level. If interested, please respond with an updated CV ASAP. My client is seeking a quick turnaround and will commence interviews immediately.]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 15:59:00 GMT http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123081/FI-Rates-Senior-Tester---Senior-AVP---London.html http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123077/Sharepoint-Consultant.html Avanade UK is looking for a SharePoint Consultant. The focus of the role will be to contribute to the design, development and testing of large-scale enterprise solutions including all aspects of SharePoint, including enterprise search, portals, collaboration, forms and business processes. You will have excellent communication skills with hands-on experience working on component based applications in a distributed environment. Skills Required of the SharePoint Consultant: Deep functional understanding of the SharePoint platform and capabilities Ability to understand business objectives and translate into SharePoint functionality/requirements Verbal and written communication skills including presentations, chairing meetings, workshop facilitation, business and technical document writing Experience of working with a wide range of client facing stakeholders with some engagement at the senior level (could be tweaked depending on the level of Consultant that is being recruited) Understanding of SharePoint governance good practice and importance Ability to configure Simple applications using out of the box SharePoint functionality Awareness of the end to end Solution Lifecycle Development process Understanding of platform hosting models and environments Ability to work with offshore delivery teams Small project delivery, management of scope and customer expectations Ability to troubleshoot, investigate and resolve technical issues Ability to work under pressure and adhere to strict deadlines Ability to react quickly and effectively to issues and opportunities Education & Qualifications Degree in IT/Software Development or related discipline MCSD Certification (Highly Desirable) Professional Skills Required from the SharePoint Consultant: EXAMPLES Proactive Self starter/works on own initiative Reliable; high degree of ownership and commitment Flexible Strong interpersonal skills Willingness to travel across the UK and internationally The Company: With Accenture and Microsoft as our parent companies, Avanade combines the best expertise from the consultancy and technology worlds. We have grown substantially every year since our inception in 2000 and we are now looking for the next generation of talent to add to our dynamic atmosphere and help us grow even further.
We believe that we are the perfect platform for talented individuals. Our people work with the finest FTSE 500 clients, maximising their IT investment and creating comprehensive solutions that drive business results. Location and Benefits: This position can be based in London, Edinburgh or Manchester but UK travel and overnight stays will be involved! Avanade offers all of its consultants an extensive benefits package which includes private healthcare, pension scheme contributions, an extended benefits allowance, a discretionary performance-related bonus and over 120 hours of technical training and development courses for every consultant every year.]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 15:59:00 GMT http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123077/Sharepoint-Consultant.html http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123078/UX-Consultant.html At Avanade you will be working in a team who's purpose is to make our customers more successful by making life better for the people who use their services. This can mean a number of things and a UX consultant will be expected to do research, interaction design and experience consultancy. You'll be supported by our senior UX leads but we want you to flex your muscles and grow with us. We may give you support on some client engagements, on others you could be working autonomously

You'll work closely with other team members and get mentoring from some of the best UX minds in the business. Equally, once we're happy things are working well we'll ask you to help our juniors and graduates on their journey.

The Role:
You'll be joining a large and dynamic design group. We're a global team with eighty designers in eleven studios. We offer a fast-paced and ever-changing landscape where you could be solving problems on tablets or thinking about how your customer should be using Twitter.

Our design practice has grown from a two-man team to a global footprint in just 5 years. We're growing fast and we are shaping our own future. Turns out the credit crunch and the recession simply highlighted the need for great design and better value. The business is looking to our team to show them what good looks like and that's something you'll want to be a part of.

While we have several London offices, there may be some travel as we like to visit our clients regularly.

Qualifications

Required Experience:

-You will have about three years' experience as a UX Consultant
-You're looking to join a well-established and growing business with a focus on generating high user adoption of services and systems.
-While you thrive in a team, you're an imaginative self-starter who makes things happen needing to be led.
-You're a problem solver and focused on how UX work can make life better for people
-You enjoy working closely with clients on site.
-You understand accountable design or evidence-based design.
-You are smart about context. You produce the right stuff based on the specific circumstances, whether personas, prototypes or paper sketches.
-You've created prototypes for user testing and iterated the results
-You not afraid to be hands on when necessary.
-You're a generalist who has conducted user research and/or testing and is great at nuts-and-bolts interaction design, you will also be a flexible team player who understands the real-world pressures an experience architect's customer has to deal with.
-Your online portfolio shows the impact you've had and the journey you've taken on each project.
-Tales of inquiry and success. be prepared to explain how you've made a difference to your customers.

This position is based in London, with UK-wide travel]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 15:59:00 GMT http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123078/UX-Consultant.html http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123075/Senior-Consultant-Capital-Markets.html IntroductionCognizant Business Consulting (CBC) is currently building the most exciting consulting business in Europe. You'll be joining at a point in our journey where you will be able to influence how we work with our clients, how we reach new markets and take our brand to the next level - and all at a time of phenomenal growth for us. Already a global leader in business and technology services and a Fortune 500 company with $6.1billion in annual revenues, we remain agile enough to engage with our clients on their most strategic initiatives but also have the know-how and financial strength to deliver the most challenging change programmes. We are one of the very companies in any business sector that have achieved double-digit growth every year for the last 10 years.DepartmentThe CBC Banking and Financial Services division (BFS) comprises two practices: Capital Markets (where this role sits) and Banking & Payments. BFS offers a compelling Value Proposition to clients as a trusted advisor, a transformation partner and a technological innovator. With a world-class team of specialists in business & IT strategy, business process re-engineering and the implementation and support of systems up to and including enterprise-level, we deliver solutions to our clients.Key ResponsibilitiesTo perform business analysis on behalf of our banking clients, usually as a member of a Cognizant team based at client-siteTo recommend improvements to existing processes or systems for our clientsTo manage, or assist with managing and developing our client relationships by identifying client needs, defining problems, producing proposals and recommending courses of action.To effectively manage relationships with other team members across geographical and organisational boundaries.Job RequirementsTo represent Cognizant Business Consulting and to undertake general consulting and business analysis duties on behalf of our clients, on client site and either individually or (more usually) as a member of a team of Cognizant consultantsThe ability to establish and develop effective client relationships in order to deliver solutions and identify new business opportunitiesRequired SkillsExperience in investment banking technology gained at a either consultancy or a financial institution Regulatory knowledge and an understanding of regulations affecting in the Investment Management industry - AIFMD, Solvency II, FATCABusiness Development/Sales: The candidate is expected to support the sales team by providing inputs to directly producing sales documents (client proposals, presentations etc.) and participating in client presentations as CBC representativesExperience in project management, process mapping, business process review and design use cases, impact analysis, documentation, gap/fit analysis and software testingBusiness domains - Transfer Agency - Dealing, Checking, Pricing, Registration, Sale Matching and SettlementsA good knowledge and understanding of business analysis techniquesExcellent consulting and communication skillsKey Inter-personal RelationshipsWith other Cognizant employees across the entire organization (including Asia and the US)With other colleagues within the CBC BFS practiceWith other team members on client siteWith clientsApplication closing date 21st June 2013.About UsCognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant combines a passion for client satisfaction, technology innovation, deep industry and business process expertise, and a global, collaborative workforce that embodies the future of work. With over 50 delivery centers worldwide and approximately 162,700 employees as of March 31, 2013, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world. Graduates/MBA*Faxing is not our preferred method of application. Please Apply to ALL positions by clicking "Apply Now"*]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 13:58:34 GMT http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123075/Senior-Consultant-Capital-Markets.html http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/122960/Data-Analyst---Statistics.html Working for this leading pharma business info company, as an SQL - focussed data analyst your role will be to support clients in the use of complex patient-related data and to undertake the production of high standard ad hoc reports to client-specific requirements. To be considered you are likely to be a graduate with 2:1 or higher in a mathematics, statistics, informatics, pharmacology, pharmacy, or equivalent discipline & will have a profound knowledge of and proven application of statistical methods in a data environment. Strong SQL Server experience is also required for data analysis/extraction (eg must be able to use INNER JOIN, LEFT OUTER JOIN, WHERE, HAVING, GROUP BY queries etc) and it would be beneficial to have the ability to create and manage SQL user access and analyse transaction logs and to create and manage database backups as well as monitor disk space. A knowledge of the UK Pharmaceutical Industry desirable. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with proven ability to interpret and present complex concepts also required as this role involves interaction with internal and external clients. ]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 09:58:02 GMT http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/122960/Data-Analyst---Statistics.html http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123071/Email-Marketing-Platforms-Analyst.html Email Marketing Platforms Analyst

The purpose of the role is to assist in supporting the Business at a Group level in maximising the sales opportunities from our Email Marketing offering, leveraging the company wide data in hand with the specifics generated by email marketing to deliver enhanced insight. Through provision of ongoing technology support as well as sympathetic and informed analysis of requirements, this role is key to ensuring we are achieving optimal ROI from our Email Marketing partnerships.
Day Duties Assist in the provision of day-to-day group level support and be a point of contact between each brand's Email Marketing teams and our 3rd party Email Marketing provider. Work in partnership with internal and 3rd party Technical teams to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the Email Marketing systems, and help with troubleshooting when needed. Contribute to the preparation of insightful and rich Email Marketing analysis to support and shape Email Marketing strategy. Support the Email Marketing teams with the preparation of ad-hoc data for CRM and highly targeted marketing campaigns using SQL and data from multiple sources. Help evolve the Email Marketing strategy by keeping abreast of new technologies, industry best-practice, and general advances in the email and digital marketing space. Establish yourself as a super-user of the Email Marketing platform and provide Email Marketing teams with advice and best-practice on efficient campaign configuration. To be a keen Data Insight team player, able to proactively suggest analysis to add value to the Business where ever possible. Be willing and able to work cross-functionally when required. Essential Skills & Requirements Around 2 years experience in a similar email analytical/technical role or within an email marketing analytics/service provider Good knowledge of Email Marketing systems Demonstrable experience of querying, extracting and manipulating multiple data sets Intermediate level Excel, Highly numerate; Basic-Intermediate SQL Well presented with excellent written communication skills, able to speak to both business and technical team members Confident self starter who can work well within a team, as well as under their own initiative]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 09:58:01 GMT http://www.recruitmentagenciesinlondon.co.uk/london-job/123071/Email-Marketing-Platforms-Analyst.html