FSO, Business Consulting Financial Product Subledger Offering, Senior

We are currently seeking highly motivated senior functional consultants to support financial product subledger builds and implementations at financial institutions. This individual would also help support various internal and account-driven business development activities related to financial products, finance data and finance technology.  The ideal candidate has financial product accounting, reporting and/or data experience within banking, insurance or asset management.

Responsibilities

• Support project workstream(s) within multi-faceted financial product subledger build or implementation projects at large financial services institutions including business rules and finance reporting (including SEC, Regulatory, and Management reporting)
• Demonstrate functional and technical capabilities across financial products, including accounting, reporting and data including:
• Drafting and maintaining business requirement documents (BRDs) for financial product accounting events
• Modeling of financial instrument lifecycles to verify system generated calculations of accounting events
• Drafting and maintaining reporting requirements across SEC, Regulatory, and management reporting for financial products
• Assisting clients with the configuration and maintenance of chart of accounts, accounting methods, elections, and posting rules for their investment portfolios
• Conducting accounting reconciliations between clients’ legacy systems and new systems
• Working with software vendor subject matter experts to gain a working knowledge of the software product business logic and data architecture
• Development of system test strategy, cases, and execution plan
• Participation in unit, functional, and user-acceptance test phases
• Configuring / developing dashboards and finance reports into Business Intelligence Tools
• Producing ad hoc queries and reports to assist in business analysis and project execution
• Training system end users on functionality and reporting capabilities
• Providing post- “go-live” support to system end users
• Assisting project managers in developing schedules and budgets for workstreams

•   Deliver high-quality client solutions/work products that meet and exceed client expectations and are delivered on-time and within agreed to budget.

• Support service delivery including but not limited to defining project approach, leading and motivating project work streams, monitoring and managing project risks, managing stakeholders, and successfully delivering client solutions.

Qualifications:

Relevant experience:

• At least 2 years of professional work experience at a financial services company (bank, insurance or asset management company) or comparable experience working as an advisor to a financial services company. 
• Experience and understanding of financial product investment accounting
• Experience working with or implementing accounting/finance information systems
• Experience working with cross functional teams and large-scale projects

Core skills:

• Documenting skills including business requirements and processes (e.g., process flows) across the financial product lifecycle, software user guides and procedures, and data requirements
• Proficient in interpreting and applying US GAAP or Statutory investment accounting principles
• High proficiency with Microsoft Excel; experience working with complex spreadsheet-based financial models
• Familiarity with software testing concepts
• Working collaboratively in a team environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Willingness to travel

Education

• A bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field of study
• CPA or CFA certification preferred
• Technical/vendor certifications a plus