FactSet : Employer profile

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FactSet offers instant access to accurate financial data and analytics to thousands of investment professionals around the world. Our company combines hundreds of databases from industry-leading suppliers and clients' own proprietary data into a single, powerful information system, making FactSet a one-stop source for financial information.

FactSet is a growing company where hard work and achievement are acknowledged and rewarded and we offer a unique opportunity to gain a breadth of knowledge and experience within the financial industry. If you are looking for an opportunity to make a difference while learning new skills, find your career at FactSet, one of the “UK’s 50 Best Workplaces” in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

We recruit driven, creative graduates the continually increasing demands of the investment industry. FactSet new hires are given immediate responsibility and future opportunity for growth.

FactSet is currently looking to recruit high calibre graduates for the following roles:

Graduate Software Engineers - You will be working on critical production systems, ensuring FactSet’s financial information products are always available, fast, reliable and scalable; continually searching for improvements, solving complex issues and working on new innovative products and services.

Our teams in London work with some of the core parts of our product suite that include real time systems, messaging, content integration and analysis tools.

Software Engineers will be driving reliability, data, infrastructure and applications that are a core part of the Global Investment Market. The solutions you will find will require high levels of original thinking and creativity.

Our UK Engineering teams work on a wide variety of platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix and VMS) and in a number of core languages (C++, Java, Perl, JavaScript and C#) and thus we look to recruit not just programmers but “true” Software Engineers.

Graduate Consultants - FactSet’s Consultants are the essential connection between our clients and our software business.
We invest a great deal in our employees training and development, after an initial 5 week class room based training period, you will be given immediate responsibility, working directly on exciting and challenging projects and delivering business solutions for our clients in either our Investment Management or Investment Banking teams.

Consultants will be offering support in a variety of ways, including:

• Visiting clients in their offices to provide on-site consultation and training
• Managing a group of accounts assigned to you, ensuring that the relationship is healthy and that clients are getting the most out of the system.
• Answering day to day client queries and providing creative solutions through our helpdesk
• Working on large scale projects that optimise our clients’ workflows
• Training clients at their desks or in groups

Starting at FactSet as a Consultant allows you to get a broad understanding of our business and Consultants are expected to progress into Consulting Management, Sales or Product Specialist roles as they develop their careers with FactSet.

As well as Business students, we are particularly keen to hear from people studying courses which are both Numerate and Analytical such as Maths, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Business Computing and Economics.

How to apply

Applications should be sent by email, with a formal cover letter and current C.V. attached to recruiting_uk@factset.com

We are currently recruiting for people to start in Summer 2012 as well as January 2013 and will be accepting applications from 1st September 2012 for Summer 2013.

For more details, please go to www.factset.com/careers