WAM-Manager-Aladdin BA Data and Interfaces

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Job Description: Aladdin BA - Data and Interfaces

Job Purpose

The Data Analyst – Aladdin will play a crucial role in ensuring data configuration from the Early Win stage to Trade Services, IBOR record keeping, and Performance services for successful implementation.

Your Client Responsibilities

• Primary point of contact throughout the project lifecycle
• Analyze and profile existing client systems data configuration to prepare data configuration templates/inputs for new systems as per client requirements and best practices, including clean-up activities
• Handle data topics relating to interface, logic/rule building, data flow (including scheduling/timing), and required data sources
• Active role in testing, parallel runs leading up to Go-Live, ensuring and verifying data quality per client expectations and TOM
• Close collaboration with Data Functional Lead, team members, stakeholders, users, and vendors for good quality data configuration
• Deliver good quality artefacts promptly to support stakeholder decision making
• Early identification of project risks
• Contingency and scenario planning
• Rapid resolution of issues
• Scope change management
• Resource management
• Ensuring that project objectives and deliverables are met on time and in full
• Monitor project progress
• Interface with customer representatives as needed
• Willingness to travel to customer locations as needed
• Willingness to be cross-trained and work on industry-focused wealth and asset management packages

Your People Responsibilities

• Building a quality culture
• Manage performance management for direct reportees as per organizational policies
• Keeping the project team focused on common objectives
• Encouraging and motivating the team, establishing open lines of communication
• Foster teamwork and lead by example, integrating cross-team project functions into a high-performing team
• Transforming teams into highly effective and responsive project teams
• Participating in organization-wide people initiatives

Mandatory Skills

• Experience in financial services/capital markets with domain knowledge in different asset classes across front, middle, and back office for "buy" and "sell" side businesses
• Good knowledge of portfolio management, trade execution, data control, operations, and portfolio administration
• Techno-functional knowledge of Core Wealth/Asset management with exposure to at least one third-party package like Aladdin, Multifonds, Charles River, FNZ, SEI, or equivalent
• High-level understanding of data models and application/business architecture around packages
• Experience understanding client requirements and streamlining them for the team
• Understand high-level business requirements and relate them to package capabilities
• Define and validate customization needs for packages per client requirements
• Define and validate integration/data requirements for packages per client requirements
• Review client processes and workflows and recommend ways to maximize package benefits
• In-depth knowledge of CFA concepts like portfolio management, wealth planning, fixed income, equity, alternative investment, derivatives, etc.
• Excellent leadership and client-facing skills
• MBA/MCA/BE/B.Tech/equivalent with FIS product experience of 7+ years

Preferred Skills

• Prior client-facing experience
• 7+ years of experience in investment data teams or related projects covering market data, reference data, transaction data, and trade lifecycle data
• Familiarity with BlackRock’s Aladdin, BNY Mellon’s Eagle, Refinitiv, and Bloomberg data is an advantage
• Experience with Oracle, MS SQL, DB2 databases is a plus