Financial IT roles

[jammy_basturd]

I'm going crazy in my current job, but not sure which type of roles I should be looking at to move into. I realise the financial side of IT isn't great at the moment, but I don't need a huge wage, and it would be good for me to just get some experience now so I'm ready for when it all picks up again.

Does anyone work in a financial IT role who can tell me what sort of skills, qualifications, knowledge and experience are needed for a certain job?

[pitzzapia]

Whats your background? Most of the banks I have dealt with like you to come from a FS background and can be very specific at times. What type of role do you think would suit you best? Project manager, developer, server admin, security, networks, etc etc etc?

[jammy_basturd]

More development... I have experience of VBA, Excel sheets and Access DBs, Visual Basic 6 and a little of VB.Net, dabbled with Java and C and found them not that difficult to pick up given my other programming background. Also have a bit of web knowledge, mainly HTML, CSS, XML, PHP and SQL/MySQL. Because I work for quite a small company I've been given the responsibility of pretty much project managing a new IT system which is basically front end Excel, back end Excel/Perl, so I do have a little bit of experience of project managing and development cycles.

I've seen a few job roles to do with analyst software development, updating/maintaining 'complex' Excel spreadsheets and/or VBA macros, but have no idea what sort of VBA knowledge this would entail, and whether my background and skills would suit a role like this, or if there are indeed any other roles that I could look into?

[Alex]

It's quiet, but there are still plenty of VB6/Excel VBA jobs in the City. Upload your CV to Jobserve.com.

[BoxheadTim]

VBA/Excel should be able to get your foot in the door, helps if you've got experience with newer versions of VB though.

[jammy_basturd]

Ok, thanks guys, will work on my CV over the weekend, submit it to a couple of agencies and see what happens.