Lead Business Consultant - Accounting Book of Records

What makes Us, Us

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp! 

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

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Why this role is important to us: 

At SimCorp, we facilitate the streamlining of investments, accounting, and operations for major global financial institutions. We do this through IT systems, processes, and financial knowledge. Implementing our software by way of high-quality projects is at the core of what we do. Business consultants are essential to us when introducing our software to our clients.  

As a Business Consultant specializing in ABOR (accounting book of records), your participation will be instrumental in expanding our market unit and advancing the outcomes of our clients' projects.  

You will normally work full-time on service delivery projects, which require your in-depth knowledge in the ABOR area. You will be responsible for all aspects of the project stream.  

You will act as an important sparring partner for your clients and continually monitor, coordinate, and escalate issues as needed. 

What you will be responsible for 

• You will take over a range of tasks in a project team. Your main mission is to advise and assist clients with using SimCorp Dimension in their daily operational work. You act as a facilitator between financial institution end-users and their new financial system, dealing with their specific business requirements and covering the complete value chain of asset management. 

• You conduct workshops to explore client requirements working with clients and SimCorp’s team to facilitate capturing, defining, and suggesting the most adapted solution;

• You build, deliver and test configuration work in aspects of SimCorp Dimension based on client requirements (mainly but not exclusively in fund accounting and accounting)

• You advise on process improvements through better use of Simcorp Dimension and contribute to improving and documenting best practices for implementations.

• You constantly expand your knowledge of SimCorp Dimension and the clients’ business to ensure that clients get the optimal value/ outcome out of their Simcorp Dimension usage

• You contribute to the knowledge sharing within service line projects and tasks

• You contribute to improving best practices for implementation processes and promote topics across projects

What we value 

Most importantly, you can see yourself participating and thriving in the abovementioned position. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest. 

• You like to deep dive into business processes in investment management and focus on modelling them in our software. You have in-depth knowledge about the business at asset managers, fund managers, insurers or banks. In addition you bring with you:Degree in economics, (economic) mathematics/computer science or similar qualification

• Work experience as a Business Analyst or Consultant from asset managers, asset servicers, insurance or consulting firms (2 years minimum)

• You are familiar with the implementation of software which is similar to SimCorp Dimension

• Good communication and consulting skills and a high degree of commercial awareness, customer orientation and quality consciousness

• Fluency in Dutch and English

• Willingness to travel   

Benefits 

Attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. 

Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide an extensive work-life balance and opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take. 

Next steps 

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

For any questions you are welcome to contact Azeta GUITI, Lead Talent Acquisition Partner If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks. 

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.

Who we are 

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 4,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds in general. 

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients. 

SimCorp is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients. 

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