Lead Implementation Specialist

FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.

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About The Role

FactSet is seeking an Lead Implementation Specialist to join our Implementation Team to focus on delivering our Performance, Analytics and Risk Solutions to our clients. Implementation Specialists are part of a fast growing team comprised of subject matter experts, combining product and industry knowledge to help ensure customer success during implementations. Implementation Specialists are expected to be experts in FactSet’s Buy Side solutions. As an implementation specialist you will work with an Implementation Project Team to lead successful client implementations.

Our Implementation Team is a key partner to our clients to support complex changes across their organizations, drive enterprise deployments of FactSet solutions, manage organizational restructures, and implement process improvements. Those in our core analytics team deliver our industry leading analytics suite of products to our clients. These people are problem solvers, have the agility to deliver solutions across on-platform and off-platform solutions, and possess the desire to provide the highest level of client satisfaction in the industry.

What You'll Do:

Lead large implementation and transformation programs at our clients at highest quality

Act as the senior resources and sponsor for strategic client implementations

Combine strong industry experience and FactSet product knowledge to deliver complex buy-side solutions for our clients.

Develop high-quality workflows for our clients that are scalable, supportable, and exceed our clients’ expectations

Partner with our data integration teams to advise on extracting, transforming, and loading client and third-party data for use in FactSet

Act as an expert across our analytics suite of products and improve your industry knowledge

Collaborate with internal and external project management personnel to communicate progress, maintain scope and identify risks

Effectively communicate with our most sophisticated users via a strong understanding of investment principles and their application in the industry

Identify growth strategies by outlining client organizational structures and uncovering additional opportunity during the implementation process

Partner with Product Development and Engineering to ensure that client feedback is integrated into our products where feasible

Consult and guide clients toward solution best practices

Provide user training and support the development of training programs

Document solutions to ensure supportability

Facilitate transition from implementation phase to support.

Proactively identify and provide support to improve implementation processes

What We're Looking for:

7+ years of experience working with FactSet’s Analytics tools.

Experience in FactSet Analytics implementation projects is a plus

Strong technical background

Highly detail-oriented with the ability to see the big picture

Enthusiastic with a keen sense of initiative and a desire to take ownership

Ability to work independently and collaboratively with team members in offices globally

Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously with shifting priorities and responsibilities

Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Ability to interact effectively with senior-level FactSet stakeholders and clients

CIPM, CFA, FRM, or desire to pursue is a plus

Company Overview:

FactSet ( NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS ) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn .

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