NextWave Americas - Consultant – Asset Management

NextWave Americas - Consultant – Asset Management

About NextWave 

NextWave is an award-winning Digital Acceleration Consultancy for Financial Services with a particular focus on rapidly driving business outcomes and modernizing Financial Institutions through technology. Clients come to NextWave because they have key integration, business growth, efficiency and control objectives and seek a more future-focused alternative to the big-name consultancies. Strategy, Innovation, Complex Transformation, FinTech Solutioning and Social Enterprise are at the heart of what we do.

By combining deep industry expertise with the innovative deployment of business solutions built on market-leading technology, we enable clients to realize business outcomes better, faster and safer. We help our clients to define their strategies and partner with them to execute, often deploying fintech and low-code solutions which can typically be delivered 5x faster than traditional approaches, resulting in processes automated from weeks to minutes and data decision accuracy improvements of up to 90%.

The NextWave team comprises high-caliber Financial Services industry change leaders, including ex-MDs from top-tier firms and new talent. We are the consulting partner of choice for leading FinTechs, Banking, Asset & Wealth Management, Insurance, and Market Infrastructure clients.

We are looking to hire consultants for our Asset & Wealth Management practice. Ideal candidates will have extensive business analysis experience working with leading Asset Managers or with Consultancies and/or Software vendors to the industry. Project Management experience is also desirable.

Desired Experience 

• Senior business analyst (potentially possessing project management skills)
• Asset Management OMS experience (Charles River, BBG AIM preferred)
• Knowledge of tax lot methodologies, practices and technological implementations
• Knowledge of liquidity and fixed income products
• Experience in process and data mapping end to end (execution through to settlement and reporting)
• Experience in management of third party vendors/service providers during complex change programmes

Responsibilities

• Work with our clients to understand their business challenges and problems - undertaking requirements gathering, client interviewing, documentation of processes and process assessment, and effectively communicating these to various audiences.
• Design and propose potential solutions identifying various pros, cons and risks.
• Build and execute project plans co-ordinating status, issues, risks and providing clarity to everyone involved of their responsibilities to effectively deliver successful business outcomes under an Agile framework.
• Construct and define test scenarios and test data to ensure requirements are completely and accurately implement them.
• Implementation and post-go live support to ensure success of the developed solutions.
• Contribute to our internally built offerings as we build a collection of best-in-class solutions.
• Work effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution.
• Actively get involved in the new consulting community.

Candidate Profile (Required)

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Systems Analysis or equivalent financial services industry experience.
• Minimum 2 years of related work experience
• MS Office Products (Excel, Word, etc)
• Advanced organizational skills and ability to multi-task
• Ability to prioritize competing deliverables.
• Ability to learn new skills and absorb materials quickly.
• Excellent Stakeholder management
• Excellent problem-solving skills and evidenced ability to break problems down into logical steps.
• Exemplary communication skills, both written and oral, to clearly communicate status, problems, and requirements.
• Ability to work as an effective member of a team.
• Ability to work core business hours.
• Occasional overtime may be necessary.

Candidate Profile (Preferred)

• Master’s in Business Administration.
• Data Analysis expertise in Financial Services.
• Project Lead role as a Business Analyst or Workstream lead.
• Familiar with Agile project execution
• Familiarity with compliance requirements associated with mutual funds and the securities industry.
• Structured Query Language (SQL).
• Middle office operational experience (e.g. corporate action processing, portfolio accounting, compliance, performance analysis and reconciliation).
• Experience working with Bloomberg, Charles River, Eagle Investment Systems, Dell Boomi, strongly desired.
• Strong Client Service orientation
• Ability to construct, document and deliver on business requirements.

Benefits

• Salary $100 – $200k, depending on experience
• Agile/ Flexible working
• Professional training and accreditation

All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.

Our commitment to you:

We will provide mentoring, training and guidance (technical skills, soft skills and Finance business skills) from our leadership team who have many years of practical experience delivering business outcomes in the Finance arena.

Work pattern:

This is a permanent role with a potential for flexibility for agile ways of working, both formal and informal, that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients.

What we do:

We provide Consulting expertise and delivery services with a focus on a select group of progressive technology platforms which are helping to change the FS Industry.

The evolution of today’s digital business landscape requires firms to reinvent to stay relevant and succeed in the new market, at a pace not seen before. Opportunities and threats are emerging from traditional and non-traditional sectors, driving new strategies across the dimensions of clients, competition, data, innovation and value. A new stack of FinTech platform technologies are enabling firms to reinvent their value proposition to collaborate and compete on customer experience, data insights, operational resilience and time to market.

Team:

Our leadership has a unique blend of big-brand consultancy, start-up and enterprise delivery and commercial experience (including 2 successful boutique firm growth & exits and a major technology consulting scale-up), across the business and technology sectors at some of the world’s largest banks, asset managers and fintechs. We are experienced consultants and technologists who have grown up with the FS industry from the pre-internet era into the digital and data driven revolution.

We are next generation technologists and engineers who are passionate about working with the leading platforms in the new stack. We are all about delivery - for our clients, our partners and our people.

What To Expect from Our Recruitment Process:

We believe in putting in the effort to find the people who will share our success. We strive to select the right people for each role based on evidence. If you think you have what it takes to help us remain at the top of our game, then apply now by clicking on apply! Additionally, we’re proud of our diverse community and are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity for all, fostered in an environment of mutual respect and dignity. We strongly encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply for this role

Location:

You will be based in the NextWave New York office; Tower 49, Midtown, however travel may be required for client based projects and some projects will be located fully at client office locations.