Careers
youDevise provides careers for bright graduates and more
experienced staff. We have an excellent track record in
recognising talent, and providing employees with new
challenges that round out their capabilities.
We are commercially sound, enjoy 100% customer
satisfaction, and are comprised entirely of people who are
dedicated and innovative. You will thrive at youDevise if you
want to see your hard work rewarded and enjoy using advanced
technology, working in capital markets, or both.
To show your interest in the company please send your CV and
a tailored letter of introduction to jobs@youdevise.com.
Please note that youDevise do not use recruitment agencies
and no approaches or CVs from agencies will be accepted.
Following are our current openings:
TIM Client Manager
| Job title: |
TIM Client Manager |
| Reports to: |
Senior Management |
| Job purpose |
Manage customer implementation and use of our on-demand virtual portfolio management application for brokers, asset managers, and hedge funds. Encourage user take-up within nominated accounts. |
| Role context: |
- The Trade Idea Monitor (the TIM) is the first open web-delivered virtual portfolio management application for brokers and their clients. We developed the TIM with four core customers in 2005, and launched the TIM as a service worldwide in February 2006. We have gained over 100 buy and sell-side customers in Europe, Africa, the Far East and America during the first year of operation.
- Brokers use the TIM to deliver trade ideas to their clients (hedge funds and more traditional asset managers), by building virtual portfolios. Buy-side clients use the TIM to measure the contribution of their brokers, and to determine their commission share.
- A TIM implementation is successful when sales or research authors at brokers, and analysts at buy-side clients, use the product to convey all their ideas to portfolio managers, and when the portfolio manager bases trading commission decisions on the statistics the TIM provides.
- TIM Client Managers are assigned to a group of brokers and/or buy-side clients that use the TIM. The Client Manager’s role is to help the assigned companies derive maximum value from the TIM, to drive customer take-up, to inspire confidence in the product and in YouDevise, and to display leadership and independence at clients’ sites.
- TIM Client Managers are measured on customer satisfaction and on the increase in take-up within their accounts.
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| Key responsibilities: |
TIM Client Managers help their assigned customers gain maximum value from the TIM. To this end, TIM Client Managers have the following responsibilities in their assigned accounts:
- Expand the TIM subscriber base within the assigned account and within the brokers or clients that the assigned account works with.
- Build TIM usage among existing subscribers within the assigned account and within the brokers or clients that the assigned account works with.
- Train end-users and help them to troubleshoot problems, identify defects and report them to our Development team.
- Identify useful new features, and work with our Development and Product Management organisations to implement those features.
- Oversee user administration.
- Oversee invoicing and collections.
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| Key working relationships: |
- You will work as part of small development
teams consisting of developers and business
analysts. While you will report to senior
management, you will work with colleagues that
will impress you and help you.
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Remuneration
The remuneration for this role is depends on your ability and
level of experience. We offer a broad range of benefits to
all employees including private healthcare, pension up to 8%
of salary, and a bonus representing a profit share
distributed to all staff.
Location
The job will be located at our City offices, near several
stations and underground stations including Liverpool Street,
Bank, and Moorgate.
Specification of the Ideal Candidate
Personal characteristics
All staff at YouDevise are team players that excel in their
preferred discipline. Almost everyone has a combination of
skills including technical capability, business analysis,
sales, and project management.
Experience
The ideal candidate will have at least three years' financial sector experience in some combination of business analysis, support, and account management.
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HIP Client Manager
| Job title: |
HIP Client Manager |
| Reports to: |
Senior Management |
| Job purpose |
Manage client implementation and use of our on-demand portfolio management application for funds-of-hedge-funds. |
| Role context: |
- The Hedge Fund Information Provider (the HIP) is the first commercially available web-delivered portfolio management application for funds-of-hedge-funds. We launched the HIP in May 2006. We have a growing user base in the UK and increasingly in other regions.
- Funds-of-hedge-funds use the HIP to manage performance, liquidity, cash, and foreign exchange exposure. It can also provide automated links with fund-of-hedge-funds’ administrators and investors, and with the hedge funds in which they invest.
- A HIP implementation is successful when a client enters its entire portfolio of hedge fund investments into the HIP and is reliant on the HIP for a broad range of portfolio management activities.
- Client Managers are assigned to a group of companies that use the HIP. The Client Manager’s role is to help the client derive maximum value from the HIP, to inspire confidence in the product and in YouDevise, and to display leadership and independence at client sites.
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| Key responsibilities: |
- Work with new HIP clients to decide strategies for HIP implementation and to develop implementation plans. This requires understanding the structure of the client’s data and matching that understanding with a deep knowledge of the HIP’s features and data migration tools.
- Assist and sometimes manage HIP implementations, including analysis of source data, migration of data into the HIP, and reconciliation of HIP output with pre-HIP systems and with data provided by administrators.
- Monitor clients’ ongoing usage of the HIP. Help clients to realise greater value from the HIP by identifying any opportunities for greater usage within their organisation.
- Train end-users and help them to troubleshoot problems.
- Identify defects and report them to our Development team.
- Identify new features that will enhance the value that clients derive from the HIP. Write specifications to communicate new features to our Product Management and Development teams. Help Product Management and Development to prioritise and implement new features.
- Provide sales support such as demonstrating the HIP to prospective clients.
- Test new features to ensure compliance with business requirements and the highest standards of usability.
- Test new releases to prevent regression of pre-existing functionality.
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| Key working relationships: |
- You will work as part of a team that includes business
analysts, developers, and product managers. You will report to senior
management. You will work with colleagues that
will impress you and help you.
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Remuneration
The remuneration for this role is depends on your ability and
level of experience. We offer a broad range of benefits to
all employees including private healthcare, pension up to 8%
of salary, and a bonus representing a profit share
distributed to all staff.
Location
The job will be located at our City offices, near several
stations and underground stations including Liverpool Street,
Bank, and Moorgate.
Specification of the Ideal Candidate
Personal characteristics
All staff at YouDevise are team players that excel in their
preferred discipline. Almost everyone has a combination of
skills including project management, sales, business and financial skills as well as technical ability.
Experience
The ideal candidate will have at least three years' financial sector experience in some combination of business analysis, support, and account management.
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Business Analyst
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Business Analyst |
| Reports to: |
Senior Management |
| Job purpose |
Functional design and oversight of new
applications. |
| Role context: |
- Our trade ideas and fund-of-hedge-funds
products are implemented at existing clients. We
are continuously enhancing them with new features
and customising them for new customers.
- We will develop new applications that exploit
our technical and industry skills, and our strong
customer relationships in the finance sector.
- We create value for our customers through our
excellence in functional design and our
thoroughness in testing, as well as through our
technical expertise.
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| Key responsibilities: |
- Producing functional designs of new
applications and enhancements by working with
senior-level clients to develop requirements
specifications.
- Testing new applications and enhancements to
ensure compliance with business requirements and
the highest standards of usability.
- Conceptualising new applications that create
value for financial market participants.
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| Key working relationships: |
- You will work as part of small development
teams consisting of developers and business
analysts. While you will report to senior
management, you will work with colleagues that
will impress you and help you.
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Remuneration
The remuneration for this role is depends on your ability and
level of experience. We offer a broad range of benefits to
all employees including private healthcare, pension up to 8%
of salary, and a bonus representing a profit share
distributed to all staff.
Location
The job will be located at our City offices, near several
stations and underground stations including Liverpool Street,
Bank, and Moorgate.
Specification of the Ideal Candidate
Personal characteristics
All staff at YouDevise are team players that excel in their
preferred discipline. Almost everyone has a combination of
skills including technical capability, business analysis,
sales, and project management.
Experience
Candidates will have at least three years' relevant
experience in the financial sector. Direct exposure to a
trading environment is an advantage.
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Java Developer
| Job title: |
Java developer |
| Reports to: |
Chief Technology Officer |
| Job purpose: |
Development of our on-demand applications for
financial markets. |
| Role context: |
- We develop and operate web-based applications using
open-source technology for top-tier brokers,
investment managers, and the alternative
investment sector. Our current applications
include the Trade Idea
Monitor, the Trade Ideas
Repository and Distribution Centre, and the
Hedge Fund
Information Provider.
- Our applications are dynamic and mathematically complex. They need to be ultra-secure and high-speed, and yet easily accessible to our global client base.
- Our applications address the finance industry's leading-edge business and regulatory requirements. They are transforming the industry landscape in the sectors where we compete.
- We use and contribute to open source technologies such as Apache Tomcat, Hibernate, and MySQL.
- We continuously evaluate agile development techniques and tools such as test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous integration, and incorporate them into our development processes when useful.
- Our developers work interactively with our customers and with our internal business analysts.
- We have an active research programme focussed on improving and expanding our core technology.
- We expect our developers to develop rapidly, deploy new code weekly, test constantly, and help us continuously to improve our development processes.
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| Key responsibilities: |
- Complete new features and bug fixes for our web-based finance sector applications, using open source technologies and agile development techniques. This responsibility includes design and unit testing of each new feature or change to meet our weekly release schedules.
- Assist in developing functional designs for our applications by working with our internal business analysts and with our customers at leading brokerage companies, asset managers, and alternative investment firms.
- Contribute to the architectural design of our applications by evaluating and choosing development techniques and tools, improving and expanding our core technologies, selecting design patterns, and refactoring our application code.
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| Key working relationships: |
- We keep our development teams small. Each member of our development teams has a focus on either architecture or business analysis. You will report to the CTO. You will work in a fast-paced industry with customers who will challenge you. You will work with colleagues that will impress you and help you.
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Remuneration
The remuneration for this role depends on your ability and
level of experience. We offer a broad range of benefits to
all employees including private healthcare, pension up to 8%
of salary, and a bonus representing a profit share
distributed to all staff.
Location
The job will be located at our City offices, near several
stations and underground stations including Liverpool Street,
Bank, and Moorgate.
Specification of the Ideal Candidate
Personal characteristics
All staff at YouDevise are team players that excel in their
preferred discipline. We have few pure coders; almost
everyone has some combination of project management, sales,
business, and financial skills as well as technical ability.
Experience
Candidates will have at least three years’ coding experience including experience in all or most of the following products: Java, MySQL, JDBC, Javascript, HTML, JUnit, Apache FOP, and awk. It will be a strong advantage to have experience in some or all of the following products: Python, AJAX, Ant, Eclipse, vi, and JSP. Candidates should also be able to demonstrate experience (or at least a strong interest) in agile techniques, and should be able to demonstrate experience with a modern functional language such as Ruby, Haskell, Scheme, Lisp, or Erlang. An interest in finance is a further advantage.
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Technical Support Analyst
| Job title: |
Technical Support Analyst |
| Reports to: |
Operations and Technical Support Manager |
| Job purpose: |
Technical support for finance sector
applications |
| Role context: |
- Our clients receive highly competent levels of technical support from staff that are customer-oriented, developer-capable, and knowledgeable in the finance sector. We require talented individuals to support new and existing applications.
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| Key responsibilities: |
- Monitor application availability and performance against targets, and take short-term remedial actions. Monitor technical system errors and take short-term remedial actions. Identify and pursue improvement opportunities.
- Provide technical support for our applications and our application infrastructure (for example hosting problems, network issues, problems with market data feeds). This involves working with open source products such as Linux, MySQL, and Apache Tomcat.
- Perform or oversee operational activities for our applications such as corporate actions, data administration, data imports, test restores, escrow deposits, etc.
- Assist in release management including participation in daily/weekly/release testing, with focus on operations testing. Perform physical releases into production.
- Provide back up application support for our finance sector applications.
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| Key working relationships: |
- You will work as part of a team that also
includes developers and client managers. You
will report to our Operations and Technical Support Manager, and you will
work with colleagues that will impress you and
help you.
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Remuneration
The remuneration for this role is depends on your ability and
level of experience. We offer a broad range of benefits to
all employees including private healthcare, pension up to 8%
of salary, and a bonus representing a profit share
distributed to all staff.
Location
The job will be located at our City offices, near several
stations and underground stations including Liverpool Street,
Bank, and Moorgate.
Specification of the Ideal Candidate
Personal characteristics
All staff at YouDevise are team players that excel in their
preferred discipline. Almost everyone has a combination of
skills including technical capability, business analysis,
sales, and project management.
Experience
Ideally, candidates will have at least three years' relevant
experience providing technical support in the financial sector. Experience with open source products and direct exposure to a
trading environment is an advantage.
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