Accounting & Performance Business Analyst - Aladdin Platform Transition

Job title: Business Analyst

Duration: 6 months + further extensions

Type: Contract

Location: London - Hybrid We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst to support an Aladdin platform transition
, with a particular focus on the parallel-run phase. The role will work across business, technology and external providers to ensure accounting and performance processes, data and outputs are reconciled and ready for migration.

• Define accounting and performance requirements, processes, data flows and controls for the parallel phase.
• Support the parallel-run strategy, reconciliation approach, acceptance criteria and testing.
• Manage reconciliations across positions, transactions, cash, income, accruals, expenses, valuations, NAV-related data and performance outputs
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• Investigate breaks and discrepancies and support root-cause analysis and resolution
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• Coordinate dependencies across reference data, transactions, positions, prices, FX, benchmarks, corporate actions and accounting data.
• Work with internal teams,
  Black Rock/Aladdin, middle-office providers, fund accountants, custodians and other vendors
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• Support SIT/UAT, operational readiness, cutover and transition into BAU
  .

• Strong Business Analysis experience within asset/investment management
  , ideally within investment-platform, middle-office, accounting or operating-model transformation programmes.
• Good understanding of the investment accounting lifecycle and the interaction between investment managers, middle-office providers, custodians and fund accountants.
• Experience across several of the following:
  positions and transactions, cash and reconciliations, income and accruals, corporate actions, pricing and valuation, NAV/accounting, fund accounting data, performance measurement, benchmarks and data/interface management
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• Aladdin or comparable investment-management platform transformation experience highly desirable, with direct Aladdin implementation, migration or parallel-run experience particularly valuable.
• Strong experience with reconciliation and root-cause analysis, requirements management, data analysis, test/UAT support and vendor management
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• Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder-management skills, with experience working across technical and non-technical teams and external providers.