Summit Consultant

About Phi

Phi Partners is a Financial Technology IT Consultancy that has been providing Summit- focused services to capital markets institutions across the world since 2004.

Supplied and sold by Finastra, Summit is a front-to-back treasury, capital markets, and investment management systems that offer solutions for global investments banks and other institutions. They support any type of instrument from the simplest to highly structured trades, alongside the deepest functional coverage that manages the complexity of pricing, booking, risk management, back-office processing and regulation in one solution. They are vendor-supplied solutions with a rich interface (API) that allows clients to develop in-house “client” extensions and functionality additional to that included within the vendor supplied “core” version.

Phi provides technical and functional expertise across the full breadth of the domain and has built up an unparalleled network of world-renowned experts both onshore and nearshore. With our portfolio of service offerings and our global reach, we are proud to be the go-to supplier for quality Summit and Sophis services.

Phi is a fast paced and constantly evolving business environment. Your role and responsibilities within our organisation are important in maintaining a strong client network, excellent reputation, and successful project deliveries.

Roles and Responsibilities

You will be:

• Working across the whole financial industry sector to address the challenges are facing;
• Leveraging the expertise of our teams to shape our client’s functional and / or technical agenda;
• Helping our clients plan and deliver transformation programmes that add value to them;
• Team player in one of our international projects, either in Bucharest (Romania) or on client-site all over the
  world.

You will also get the opportunity to travel to different locations and experience different work cultures.
In the role of a “Summit Consultant”, your primary career development focus will lie on capital markets topics combined with Front to Back processing or technical topics. We are looking for expertise in the following roles: Summit API Developer, Summit Business Analyst, and Summit Support Analyst.

Example tasks are:

• Writing functional specifications for business projects implementing new functionality incl. the test, user
  training and go-live support;
• Verification of functional changes in Summit;
• Technical changes in Summit;
• Supporting the introduction of new Summit modules from a business point of view (e.g., gap analysis);
• Test execution and analysis of differences from GUI and interfaces testing;
• Supporting business units when there are issues with their daily tasks in Summit;
• Analysing and test bug fixes delivered by the vendor;
• Offer support services to our clients;

We will support you with training within the role on an ongoing basis.

The ideal candidate

We are looking for people who are open to new ideas, hungry for knowledge and who will be actively looking for new ways to learn. You will be:

• A great listener and able to understand and analyse information quickly
• Resilient and learn how to tackle challenges whilst having a positive attitude in overcoming obstacles
• A team player that works well with other people, builds his own networks and delivers great work
• Curious and understand the importance of continuous innovation and creativity as these skills are key for a successful career at Phi Partners
• Adaptable in a constantly changing world where you will use your creativity to find innovative solutions; you will not let obstacles stand in the way of doing a job well
• Very bright, with strong analytical skills
• Solution oriented in a no-blame culture
• Able to transform criticism into learning progress instead of conflicts
• Highly self-motivated with a strong will to deliver outstanding work results on time
• A strong communicator with the ability to summarize complex topics in simple terms
• A friendly sociable team worker in a respectful work environment, keen to help people, with a strong service orientation
• Proactive
• Eager to learn

Previous Summit knowledge is also required except for our Graduates and Juniors that will undergo our internal Summit training academy programme. You will need to:

• Constantly learn and develop, can grasp new ideas and concepts quickly and apply this learning to ensure the best possible outcomes for our clients
• Filter complex information into simple terms
• Inspire confidence and build trust in others.