Associate IT Support Specialist
At Beyond Finance, we've made it our mission to help everyday Americans escape the endless cycle of crippling debt and step into a brighter financial future. Through compassionate, individualized care, a culture focused on compliance and ethics, supportive user-centric technology, and customized financial solutions, we've helped over 300,000 clients on their path to a brighter future.
While we're proud of what we've already accomplished, we're searching for new collaborators to help us get to the next level! If you're looking to join a forward-thinking, rapidly growing organization with helping people as its number one goal, we want to hear from you.
About the Role
We are seeking an IT Support Specialist able to contribute towards Beyond Finance’s ambitious growth. You will provide strategic, innovative, and cost-effective support solutions to increase efficiency, reliability, and integration of our services and operations. You will work in a semi-autonomous and fast-paced environment.
We’re a Chicago-based company looking for candidates willing to come into our downtown office 3-4 days a week. Enjoy in-person team collaboration, mentorship, and catered lunches — not to mention a free fitness center and relaxation lounge!
What You'll Do
The IT Support Specialist will help
- Handle support of corporate users in our Chicago office.
- Help set up workstations, new conference rooms and other in-office needs.
- Provide in-depth support and lead problem-solving and implementation efforts for specific technology products or applications.
- Design, install, configure and maintain a comprehensive IT infrastructure with a focus on Microsoft Windows / Macbook. Remove and install hardware components and peripherals manually and via deployment console.
- Investigate, diagnose and resolve hardware issues.
- Manage, troubleshoot and provide solutions for a wide range of technical issues impacting users in person and remotely.
- Identify and escalate trends, bugs and other system errors to various escalation teams, IT Engineering and Security teams.
- Build and maintain document library, knowledge base articles.
- Provide internal training and address knowledge gaps.
- Facilitate onboarding of new hires in person.
- Oversee and maintain key Production SLA metrics such as response and resolution time.
What We Look For
- Experience with Windows/Mac operating systems.
- Bachelors in Computer Science, Information Systems, IT related field.
- Some expertise with powershell, python or other scripting languages.
- Excellent customer service skills with the ability to work quickly and effectively and provide white glove support to Executive teams.
- Experience with a major platform for ticketing and support (FreshService, Zendesk, Zoho, ServiceNow, etc.)
- Ability to troubleshoot in unfamiliar territory, provide technical support, and maintain third-party commercial SaaS applications.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
- Proven ability to work successfully with limited supervision.
Why Join Us?
While you make a difference for others, we’ll work to make a difference for you, providing an uplifting, collaborative work environment and benefits that reflect your value to us. For eligible full-time employees, we offer:
- Considerable employer contributions for health, dental, and vision programs
- Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid parental leave
- 401(k) matching program
- Merit advancement opportunities
- Career development & training
And finally, our team spirit and culture! We cultivate an environment of community, connection, and belonging across our entire organization.
Beyond Finance does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job positions. No fee will be paid to their parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to Beyond Finance employees or the Beyond Finance HR team. No placement fee will be paid to any third party unless such a request has been made by the Beyond HR team.
