Middle Office Aladdin Consultant

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Middle Office Aladdin Consultant

The Middle Office Aladdin Consultant supports the implementation of Aladdin across Middle Office operational work streams, ensuring robust delivery discipline and acting as a key point of contact for operational delivery within a wider programme. This role focuses on business process re-engineering, configuration, testing, training, and pilot/parallel/go-live support to achieve a smooth transition to Aladdin and operational readiness.

• Support Middle Office implementation activities across operational work streams, including Trade Operations, Reconciliations, Corporate Actions, Fund Trading and Derivatives Operations.
• Contribute to operational project plans and maintain implementation tracking tools to monitor progress and key milestones.
• Provide regular status updates to programme leads and stakeholders, highlighting risks, issues and dependencies.
• Lead or support business process re-engineering (BPR) workshops to review existing processes and define target-state operating models.
• Document process outcomes from BPR workshops, manage follow-up questions, incorporate stakeholder feedback and support formal process sign-off.
• Validate Aladdin configuration for Middle Office workflows and identify gaps required to support testing and operational readiness.
• Ensure Middle Office readiness for user acceptance testing (UAT), pilot, parallel run and go-live activities.
• Support UAT, pilot, parallel, go-live and post-go-live phases, including defect ownership, issue resolution and handover readiness.
• Prepare training scripts and materials for Middle Office users and other stakeholders.
• Support the setup and use of training environments, deliver or assist in training sessions and respond to business follow-up questions.
• Coordinate activities and dependencies across Front Office, custodians, administrators, external providers, technology teams and programme governance forums.
• Maintain strong stakeholder management throughout the programme, ensuring clear communication and alignment on implementation activities.
• Act as a point of contact for operational delivery within the programme, ensuring issues are escalated and resolved in a timely manner.

• At least 5 years’ experience within Asset Management Operations, Investment Operations or Aladdin Middle Office implementation delivery.
• Deep knowledge of one or more operational work streams, including Trade Operations, Reconciliations, Corporate Actions, Fund Trading and Derivatives Operations.
• Hands-on experience contributing to operational project plans and maintaining implementation tracking tools.
• Proven ability to provide regular status updates to programme leads and governance forums.
• Demonstrated capability to lead or support business process re-engineering (BPR) workshops.
• Strong skills in documenting process outcomes, managing follow-up questions and incorporating feedback from stakeholders.
• experience validating Aladdin configuration and identifying gaps to support testing and operational readiness.
• Solid understanding of UAT, pilot, parallel run, go-live and post-go-live support processes.
• experience with defect ownership, issue resolution and handover readiness in a project or programme environment.
• Ability to prepare training scripts and support training environments for Middle Office and related teams.
• experience delivering or supporting training sessions and responding to business queries.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to coordinate across Front Office, custodians, administrators, external providers and technology teams.
• Good understanding of investment management and asset management operational processes.

• experience working as a consultant within technology or operational change environments.
• Background in implementation projects within investment management or asset management.
• Knowledge and practical experience of business process re-engineering (BPR) methodologies.
• Exposure to programme governance forums and structured project delivery frameworks.
• Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to present complex operational…