IT Support Analyst

The Company: NorthMark Strategies is a multi-strategy investment advisory firm that provides strategic advice, asset management, and value-added professional services to investors, investment managers, and privately owned operating companies around the world. Our company’s mission is to integrate world class investments, operational excellence, and exceptional talent. Our values are Integrity, Ability, and Energy, and the company aims to hire individuals who possess those qualities.

The Position: The IT Support Analyst will play an essential role in our IT Support team by providing end-user support (Tier 1), with occasional Tier 2 support as knowledge of the environment is learned. They will report to the IT Support Manager and work with staff at NorthMark & its group companies to ensure all IT issues are solved in a timely and efficient manner. The incumbent ensures our office devices and technology are installed, configured, and maintained properly so our staff can be productive. The support environment involves regular office attendance in the London office, with occasional travel throughout the London metropolitan area, as well as out of hours on-call (ROTA based) support and includes remote support of international group offices. This role will suit someone with a passion for customer service with a strong technical and methodical approach to any given task. Candidate will exhibit intellectual curiosity in their interest of IT with an aptitude for applying computing concepts and skills to solve real problems.

Responsibilities:

• Direct experience providing Tier 1 Support
• Provide 1st and 2nd level end-user support for office devices and technology including laptops, printers, multifunctional devices, smartphones with a focus on customer support.
• Physical setup of workstations, laptops, and smartphones.
• Responsible for working and tracking all incidents and service requests from beginning to resolution within predetermined service levels using the ticketing system.
• Escalate issues (Tier 2 and 3) to the appropriate parties inside or outside the company and track resolution.
• Install, configure, and provision end-user devices for onboarding, as well as secure retirement of devices and removal of company resources during offboarding.
• Utilize IT asset management for documentation and tracking of end user computing equipment, accessories, software licenses and maintain appropriate levels of inventory.
• Manage end-user software & hardware inventory for company offices; initiate, manage and track necessary purchases with our established 3rd party suppliers.
• Work closely with the IT Support Operations Manager to determine and implement solutions to improve efficiency, reliability and security of desktop services and capabilities.
• Set-up and provide user support for our video conferencing rooms and systems.
• Train employees on use of devices and new/upgraded core enterprise software.
• Occasional after-hours work for critical infrastructure updates and changes.
• Proactively communicate all changes, updates, and outages to staff.
• Full-time office attendance in the London office.

Qualifications:

• 1-3 years of experience in a similar position providing endpoint and infrastructure support.
• Excellent team player with the ability to positively encourage and influence others.
• Ability to multi-task with strong attention to detail.
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, agile environment, and resolve unplanned incidents quickly.
• Outstanding communication skills, including the ability to effectively present information in both technical and non-technical terms.
• Ability to maintain a professional service level when dealing with fast-paced end users and VIPs.
• Desire to learn and become familiar with new areas of technology.
• Understanding of ITIL processes preferred.
• Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• IT troubleshooting skills: ability to critically think and solve problems independently until escalation may be required.
• Experience with Active Directory, machine access changes, and various authorization controls.
• Direct Microsoft 365 experience is required, including knowledge of Azure AD.
• Enterprise Architecture: troubleshooting user mailboxes, public folders, creating/updating distribution groups and security groups.
• Experience in setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting office devices (laptops, smartphones, printers, etc.).
• Ability to isolate problems with end user devices and infrastructure.
• Mobile Device Management – enrolling users on corporate mobile devices and BYOD profiles. Direct experience with iPhones is a plus.
• Creating, using, and updating scripts – Powershell is a plus – to automate daily tasks.
• Networking fundamentals – basic troubleshooting of connectivity on workstations and servers.
• Experience in videoconferencing solutions and end-user support (Teams, Webex, etc.).
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook).
• Experience with RMM solutions (Teamviewer, Kaseya, Solarwinds, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience with ticketing systems (e.g. Zendesk, Jira Service Desk, ServiceNow, etc.).

Benefits & Perks:

• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Private medical and dental insurance through Bupa UK
• Extra Support: Access to a Health Cash Scheme for everyday healthcare needs
• Pension Scheme: A generous 9% non-contributory pension scheme
• Various wellbeing and lifestyle benefits: Such as gym memberships through Gymflex & Wellhub, discounts, backup care, fertility and family planning benefits and more
• Various Loan Schemes: Cycle to Work, Cycle Scheme, Technology Loans, Season Ticket Loans and more.
• Risk Benefits: Life Assurance & Income Protection
• Annual Leave & Holidays: 27 days of holiday plus all UK bank holidays.