Investment Management - IT Advisory - Consultant

Roles and Responsibilities:

Within IT Advisory Investment Management Principal Advisors work between IT and the business to deliver technology-enabled change and lead the market in providing the following services:

• Project and programme management.
• Programme assurance.
• Benefits management.
• IT operational transformation and effectiveness.
• IT enterprise architecture and strategy.
• IT solution architecture and design.
• Support business development initiatives including bid proposal and contract/commercial management.
• Actively contribute to knowledge management and new proposition development.
• Build and maintain client relationships.

Qualifications and Skills:

Successful candidates will have some or all of the following skills/qualifications:

• Ability to manage a wide range of stakeholders at all levels within client organisations.
• Managing Programmes in a Change capacity.
• Ability to understand rapidly clients' issues and provide appropriate solutions.
• Strong communicator with the personal skills to build strong and lasting client relationships.
• Ability to take client aspirations and ideas and support them in turning them into a practical reality.
• Strong communicator with the personal skills to build strong and lasting client relationships.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of Imnvestment Management processes, systems and technologies in Traditional Fund Management business or both, with a demonstrable track record in the definition and/or implementation of IT in this area.
• Ability to meet project milestones within time, cost and quality constraints.
• Solid problem solving skills, ability to analyse complex data, identify core issues, investigate, evaluate and reach appropriate conclusions/solutions.
• Confident dealing with both senior level executives and project staff at all levels.

Experience and Background:

• A successful track record of delivering high quality programme, project, work-stream or assignment outputs with a focus on delivering measurable business improvements.
• This experience will be from working for a major advisory business or leading Investment Management institution.
• Knowledge and experience of the key change drivers in the Investment Management industry and the successful planning & execution of resultant change initiatives, including drivers such as Solvency II and Retail Distribution Review (RDR), FATCA and UCITSIV.
• Experience of Charles River or Blackrock Aladdin a distinct advantage.
• Experience gained in key delivery roles on major transformation programmes (£multi million), such as core systems replacement programmes within the IM sector. This may include elements of IT operational transformation and IT effectiveness and will have been gained as a leader or a key team member in one or more of the major delivery teams typically involved in large IT-enabled programmes, including:
  - Delivery Management
  - Business Analysis
  - Solution Architecture and Design
  - Development Testing (Functional, Non-Functional, Process)
  - Infrastructure Delivery and Environment Management

In addition Principal Advisors should also be able to evidence:

• A well maintained network across the Investment Management industry to support business development opportunities
• Historical experience of leading large teams/programmes and comfortable dealing with senior level executives

My client has an expansive amount of work booked for 2012 and urgently requires a vast number of consultants across all disciplines to help sustain their growth.

S&H Consulting is a premium Financial Services Consultancy, please email Jamie Allen with an updated CV and he will contact you regarding the opportunities.

Jamie@sandh.co.uk