What you will be responsible for

As Senior Consultant - Implementation Services you will be responsible for:

• Day to day management of an implementation project from a CRD perspective
• Interpreting workflow analysis documents and the conversion of these documents into specifications for CR IMS configuration to ensure Best Practice delivery
• Providing on-going communication and evaluation of project status to the client and Charles River Project Manager
• Providing a single point of contact for a Client during the Implementation project.
• Undertaking the daily execution of the project plan steps
• Ensuring that the Client’s needs are understood and documented
• Providing proactive leadership in a Client’s utilization of CRD products and services
• Facilitating conference calls & meetings with other consultants and product experts
• Communicating pertinent information on upgrades and major releases
• Managing training and consulting resource requests
• Monitoring and assisting with the issue escalation process
• Responding to additional product requests
• Managing the co-ordination of work undertaken by CRD’s representatives in other locations for the implementation
• Maintain a general awareness of industry changes/trends
• The role involves extensive travel and can involve spending up to 5 days per week on a client site within the EMEA region.

What we value

• Extensive experience in a similar role implementing financial systems.
• Strong Front Office experience (order management, dealing with Fund Managers/Traders)
• Applications experience with Charles River Investment Management System or Equivalent (competitor)
• Good Investment Management and market instrument knowledge – Front Office workflows; Fixed Income/derivatives, Equity, Compliance, IBOR, PMA, Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Risk and Scenario Analysis
• A specific previous area of focus e.g. Risk systems, IBOR, Scenario Analysis is desirable

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Fluency in a second European Language is highly desirable
• University degree – ideally in a Finance or Technology discipline.

Additional requirements

• Have superior client facing skills
• Some technical knowledge, ideally SQL
• Experience dealing with users or clients from either a technical or business area
• Comfortable making presentations covering business, technical or sales
• Experience managing/coordinating projects and a demonstrable understanding of the project life-cycle.