Senior Business Consultant Bardi

Senior Business Consultant
Bardi
Emilia Romagna, Bardi

col-wideJob Description:

The position SimCorp is one of the world's leading investment management software providers globally to international financial institutions.

SimCorp continuously enhances the portfolio of offerings to remain at the forefront of industry technology and trends.

The main purpose of the role is to contribute to the successful support and maintenance of SimCorp clients and to all aspects of service delivery around SimCorp Dimension.

Consultants are highly skilled senior professionals who form part of our Professional Services team working within EMEA Services.

Consultant's (Senior or Principal) support our clients by providing best practice market solutions and deploying services related to the usage of SimCorp Dimension and beyond.

They work closely with local and global teams within SimCorp.

You will be working in a team, servicing our clients in their post implementation phases.

As part of the team, you will be using your coordination skills and SCD expertise to closely collaborate with Client stakeholders and SimCorp internal stakeholders in providing Front to Back solutions, Incident and Problem Management, Small changes or enhancements to their current or future flows, increasing the automation level and/or the end-user experience and satisfaction.

Front, PAR, or Middle-Office/Back-office expertise is required as the role is functional.

As part of your induction, you will be 'hands-on' in our software system and attend the three-weeks' SimCorp Dimension® Academy.

Your Responsibilities

Analyze problems and issues which occur in SimCorp Dimension at existing clients fully independently to provide convincing and timely solutions to our clients

Co-operate closely with SimCorp colleagues and the SimCorp clients to prioritise and provide best-practice solutions.

Co-operate closely with SimCorp developers to combine business and technical know-how in analysing client issues and requirements to provide optimal solutions both from a business and technical perspective

Advise and service our clients fully independently by providing best practice market solutions related to the usage of SimCorp Dimension and beyond with regard to business-related, technical or legal requirements to ensure that the clients use SimCorp Dimension in an optimal, future-oriented way

Provide convincing and effective solutions fully independently, always considering maintenance efficiency and revenue to support SimCorp's business goals

Establish and maintain a network at several levels at the clients incl.

senior management and be regarded as a trusted advisor by the client to foster a mutually beneficial partnership long-term

Deliver consultancy and support single-handedly on a wide range of topics onsite at the client and tackle issues in new areas of expertise to provide ad-hoc answers and solutions

Implement additional functionality in SimCorp Dimension fully independently mainly for existing customers for instance by working in implementation projects on a widerange of topics also tackling issues in new areas of expertise to fulfil our clients' demand for additional, value-adding functionality

Plan and conduct the technical or non-technical part of software upgrades for SimCorp Dimension and support release tests to ensure a smooth transition to the latest version of SimCorp Dimension

Identify and recommend to the client additional services/products which would improve the client's operations by taking into account new developments and future services to create starting points for offering value-adding services and solutions to the client

Assess proactively customer requirements regarding system enhancements of a highly complex nature and address these to product management to ensure that product management is always aware of future market requirements

Co-operate closely with other professionals within SimCorp on a local or global level by way of specialist roles (such as lead or membership in domain teams or local professional committees as well as service ownership) to share knowledge and ensure efficient solutions for the clients

"Contribute to knowledge transfer by conducting training or ad-hoc coaching and develop new trainings to ensure the clients use the software in an optimal way

Acts as a Thought Leader and guide clients to best practice use of SimCorp Dimension.

Use technical expertise, business understanding and superior influencing skills to instruct the client towards their optimum solution

Act as a coach or mentor and review work of others.

Influence others regarding general practices and procedures within own field

Contribute to wider decision making including the development of practices, processes and procedures, and provide input to the strategic direction of the function

Your qualifications

You like to deep dive into business processes in investment management and enjoy modelling them in our software.

In addition, you bring with you the following qualifications or willingness to learn:

Degree in economics, finance, mathematics, computer science or similar qualification

Proven track record in a senior role as an Analyst or Consultant from banks, asset managers, asset owners or consulting firms

Expertise in evaluating financial instruments and experience with benchmarks and portfolio analytics

Excellent know-how in at least one of the following areas:

performance measurement, treasury, liquidity, risk or regulatory requirements from the banking, asset management and/or insurance industry

Ideally you have at least 3 years of SimCorp Dimension® experience or you are familiar with implementing investment management software

Independent and analytical way of working

Team spirit and a desire to share your knowledge

Strong communication and consulting skills

High degree of commercial awareness, customer orientation and quality consciousness

Fluency in English, additional language abilities would be of advantage