Senior Trading Support Analyst

Ridgeline San Ramon, CA $115,000 - $125,000
Full Time Senior Level 6+ years

Posted 3 weeks ago

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About This Role

This role delivers best-in-class support for Ridgeline's SaaS platform, focusing on trading and start-of-day workflows for investment management teams. It involves resolving complex customer issues, advocating for their needs, and directly influencing product quality and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a trusted escalation point, owning complex customer issues and driving them to resolution with urgency, accuracy, and care
  • Provide start-of-day support to ensure customers can reconcile data quickly and begin trading without disruption
  • Deliver real-time trading support to help customers execute, reconcile, and validate trades throughout the trading day
  • Engage directly with customers via live chat and Zendesk tickets to diagnose technical and workflow challenges
  • Collaborate with engineering and product teams to investigate defects, influence prioritization, and advocate for customer-driven enhancements
  • Partner with traders, portfolio managers, and operations teams to understand workflows, pain points, and opportunities to add value
  • Identify trends across customer issues and contribute to scalable solutions, process improvements, and knowledge base content
  • Build deep subject matter expertise across the Ridgeline platform, becoming a go-to resource for customers and internal teams
  • Mentor and coach junior team members, reinforcing best practices and fostering a culture of learning and shared ownership
  • Leverage AI and automation to improve efficiency, surface insights, and scale support without compromising quality

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
  • 6+ years of experience supporting or troubleshooting technical or operational issues within the FinTech industry
  • Strong understanding of investment management workflows, security types, and financial market concepts
  • Hands-on experience with trading and reconciliation workflows and industry file formats such as DTCC CTM, FIX, SWIFT, confirmations, and affirmations
  • Demonstrated expertise in data reconciliation analysis and issue resolution
  • Proven ability to manage complex customer escalations with professionalism and composure
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, product managers, and external partners
  • Aptitude for learning new technologies quickly and applying them in practical ways
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Flexibility to pivot between priorities and adapt to evolving customer and business needs

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
  • 6+ years of experience supporting or troubleshooting technical or operational issues within the FinTech industry

Nice to Have

  • Experience with Zendesk and/or Salesforce Service Cloud
  • Familiarity with APIs, AWS, and serverless technologies
  • Comfort working with Slack, JIRA, and Confluence

Skills

AWS * Jira * Confluence * Zendesk * APIs * ChatGPT * Slack * Salesforce Service Cloud *

* Required skills

Benefits

Wellness reimbursements
Employee insurance plans ($0 cost)
Unlimited vacation
Company Stock Plan
Educational Reimbursements

About Ridgeline

Ridgeline is the industry cloud platform for investment management, founded by visionary tech entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday). They are building a new, modern platform in the public cloud, purpose-built for the investment management industry, prioritizing secur...

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