Fund Accounting Onboarding Associate

Fund Accounting Onboarding Associate

Location: Edinburgh

Contract Duration: 10 months

Responsibilities:

- Understand and articulate the impact of assigned on-boarding or new product development requests and, through the development of functional specifications (where required), work closely with our partners on both technology and operations to execute the on-boarding or new product deployment.

- Build and maintain close working relationship with each business partner (e.g. Operations, OSD, Client service, Product, Technology etc)

- Ongoing support in all assigned phases of the product development activity (on-boarding or new product / change) through design, testing and implementation, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery of end deliverables to our partners.

- Gather, understand and document business requirements and support the preparation of functional specifications

- Development & review of detailed operating model from a business and process perspective (touch-point into regional / global operating model)

- Define and document requirements e.g. define inbound and / or outbound data required and any calculations needed.

- Work with the SME / business partner to develop test strategy, document test plans, test scripts and test data, ensuring adequate testing of business requirements and operating model.

- Actively pursue the resolution of business issues identified during testing

- Work within the team to co-ordinate project efforts and delivery plans

- Deliver any necessary training programs

- Work with the manager to identify and manage project risks

Technical Skills & Knowledge:

- Detailed knowledge of fund accounting and / or financial reporting consummate with the grade

- Detailed knowledge of business processes and the operating operating model as it relates to Fund Accounting within the region.

- Detailed knowledge of CIB products which utilise or interact with fund accounting would be beneficial

- Knowledge of a Project Life cycle, project governance, project control, best practices

Experience:

- Previous experience of business analysis

- Previous experience in process re-engineering

- High level of expertise in fund accounting / financial reporting consummate with grade

- Proven networking ability across the organisation