Application Support Engineer in SPAIN

AMAZING LONG TERM FULLY REMOTE FREELANCE OPPORTUNITY FOR AN APPLICATION SUPPORT ENGINEER TO JOIN A MASSIVE GLOBAL INSURANCE ENTERPRISE ON A HUGE GREENFIELD PROJECT!!

As Application Support Engineer for Longview Tax your main responsibilities will involve:

• Understand and maintain the current solution for Income Tax calculation (Cloud Technologies, Web-Application and Platform Support).
• Understand business processes and related functional components, dataflows and process steps.
• Work with the different Business, IT Support and Project teams on how to best fulfil business needs and to translate those into functional requirements and solutions.
• Develop and deploy changes, manage releases.
• Own the installation of Release Upgrades.
• Manage and resolve Incidents, ensuring the systems are running smoothly and effectively.
• Continuously improve and document the solution.
• Be curious and willing to learn constantly on the job about business processes, existing solutions and to get into rising technologies.
• Communicate remotely with business and IT stakeholders, developing and maintaining effective work relationships.
• Manage the daily work and tasks independently in a structured and efficient manner.
• Be able to work in an international virtual environment, with challenges of time-zones and multiple cultures.
• Be willing to gain new skills and experiences, but also share your knowledge across your team.

interact with suppliers and customers on a daily basis.

As Application Support Engineer your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

• Minimum 3 years of total IT experience, preferably serving Finance departments.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in advanced-IT or equivalent.
• Proven experience in a similar role supporting web-based applications, Release Management and with Code Repositories such as Bitbucket.
• General IT knowledge in solution design, developing and database technologies.
• Experience with Cloud Technologies (Azure), Web-applications and related programming languages (e.g., SQL, Python, .Net).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, high attention to detail.
• Ability to work in a reliable, independent and diligent manner.
• Proficient knowledge of standard Microsoft tools and Sharepoint/O365.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical users.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken); capable to participate in meetings and to compose reports and technical/functional documentation.
• An advantage
• Experience with Longview Tax Application.
• Experience in the Finance Area, Financial Services / Tax / Financial Close and main accounting principles (IFRS, GAAPs).
• Understanding of ITIL processes (preferably ITIL Certified) such as Change Management, Incident Management.
• Experience with software tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence.

Location: REMOTE!

Rate: NEGOTIABLE!

Please reach out to miles.girling@exploreltd.com to find out more.