Professional Services Consultant

Role Overview

This is an excellent opportunity for a Professional Services Consultant with a strong technical slant, looking for a challenging career move. Working within the UnaVista team, part of a leading UK investment and financial services company, you will be responsible for the implementation of the complete software delivery lifecycle for regulatory, post trade, reconciliation, and data solutions.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Liaise on a regular basis with client project teams and stakeholders, primarily for the purpose of fulfilling the core software configuration functions and performing basic project management and business analysis duties.
• Implement UnaVista solutions as per the agreed functional requirements, with full accountability for quality assurance.
• Manage internal and client facing (user acceptance) testing, applying appropriate change control practices.
• Perform basic project management duties to ensure controlled implementation of UnaVista solutions to clients.
• Assist with the efficient and accurate elicitation and documentation of client business and functional requirements in accordance with UnaVista business analysis processes.
• Assist with the creation of supporting project/ technical documentation in conjunction with other UnaVista staff.
• Assist the wider Professional Services team with technical input for their work streams.
• Drive problems and roadblocks to resolution with minimal assistance.

Candidate Profile

• Strong experience in the role of Professional Services Consultant (or similar role), ideally a financial software vendor or financial institution (BO/MO).
• Strong knowledge of SQL, coupled with strong data analysis skills.
• Good knowledge of data manipulation, enrichment, validation, normalisation, and underlying concepts related to data reconciliation and quality management.
• Strong background in incident investigation and incident resolution.
• Good industry/ financial knowledge; ability to communicate and understand terminology used by clients (both technical and financial terminology).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to maintain a positive attitude and calm demeanour, especially in escalated circumstances.
• Strong listening skills; open to input from other team members and departments.
• Ability to lead through influence.
• Good working knowledge of any ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) product is desirable, but not required.
• The ability to adapt and scale on demand is critical as you may be required to work on concurrent, parallel multi-stream/ multi-client project engagements.
• Experience of requirements management involving both internal and external project stakeholders is important. Experience of project/ process management is desirable, although formal accreditation (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP) is not required.

In addition, a proven software delivery background is preferable within some of the following areas:

• Regulatory/ Compliance reporting - e.g. MiFIR, EMIR
• Post trade services - e.g. trade confirmations, clearing
• Matching and reconciliation - e.g. cash nostro, stock depot, FOBO, intersystem

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