Ascend Consulting

Ascend Consulting

Andover, North West

Application Support Analyst

Full-Time£35,000 - 40,000 per yeartodayUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £35,000 - 40,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Previous experience within helpdesk support, an IT team, or experience using school administration software.
  • Strong aptitude with IT systems and software.
  • Excellent communication skills with customers of varying technical abilities.
  • Effective written and verbal communication with colleagues.
  • Methodical and disciplined approach to problem solving.
  • Strong desire for continuous improvement and willingness to learn accounting concepts and terminology.
  • Tertiary qualification in information technology or a related field is advantageous.
  • Experience monitoring contractual SLAs and KPIs, preparing performance or governance reports, supporting service reviews, and maintaining audit-ready compliance records is advantageous.
  • Experience within the UK school education sector and/or the Educational Technology sector is advantageous.
Responsibilities:
  • Provide support to customers via the service desk system, email, and phone.
  • Offer clear and concise guidance on product features and functionality.
  • Ensure a high level of customer satisfaction through professional, courteous communication.
  • Apply strong product knowledge to assist customers effectively.
  • Where required, own SLA and KPI compliance monitoring for customer contracts, tracking performance against the targets and thresholds set out in the relevant contract schedules.
  • Assess the nature and urgency of customer issues.
  • Troubleshoot, investigate, diagnose, and resolve customer-reported issues.
  • Analyse customer-reported problems to identify root causes.
  • Utilise diagnostic tools, techniques, and methodologies to resolve technical issues.
  • Create detailed bug reports and assist with software testing.
  • Document identified bugs with comprehensive detail for the development team.
Technologies:
  • Support

More:

We are an exciting software company based in Andover, Hampshire, offering a hybrid role with a salary of up to £40,000. This is a great opportunity for a Senior Application Support Analyst to join us on our growth journey and play a key role in delivering high-quality support to customers using our products. The role also contributes to the development of self-service resources and processes while building subject matter expertise in our product software solution.

last updated 36 week of 2026

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About Ascend Consulting

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Ascend Consulting

Andover

IT

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