Solutions Consultant; Implementation Finance​/Banking

Solutions Consultant (Implementation) – Finance/Banking
up to 55K
Quant Capital is urgently looking for a technical Implementation / Solutions Consultant to join our high profile client.
Our client is one of the biggest global financial technology vendor well known in the core banking space.
The primary purpose of the Implementation Consultant is to support clients in their implementation of financial solutions, from the sales process through to the go live of the system. The Consultant will provide clients with objective strategic advisory services to improve their organisation’s performance and long-term competitiveness by working with them to optimise the implementation of our software, and their own business processes.
You will be responsible for running your own projects as well as working closely with presales.
The Solutions Consultant will be involved in requirements gathering and understanding the client’s processes, and helping to define their requirements and the solution proposition. The main areas you’ll then work with are:
Recommend solutions within own discipline
Define business requirements and associated technical solutions
Work with development teams to design software solutions and workarounds according to process requirements
Prepare elements of business case definition
Implement process change definition
Work with the team on the product configuration
Specify requirements for data migration
The role requires the solutions consultant to work independently, and is collaborative in nature. The candidate should be adept at problem solving through innovation, making confident decisions under pressure with aggressive time frames and have a proven track record on successfully overseeing a number of projects of differing scales.
Solutions / Implementation Consultants must have:
4 years commercial experience of Implementation or Consultancy
Experience Client facing
Degree educated or of degree calibre
Understanding of financial services
Previous experience of supporting customers in software implementations and upgrades
Ability to work with customers to understand and document the business requirements to implement beneficial process change

Experience of dealing with a variety of customer stakeholders when gathering and consolidating requirements
Previous experience of product configuration as part of a team
An analytical approach to fault investigation and resolution
Previous experience of supporting data migration
An appreciation / understanding of the software development lifecycle
Flexibility in working hours and location due to the nature of the role
Ability to learn and keep up to date with compliance and changes to the Financial Services Industry.
Ideally a Background in financial technology or front office technology

Experience of business analysis or project management (or the desire to gain this)
This role suits someone from a software consulting or implementation background that is looking to take on serious responsibility. We are looking for consultants who want to take ownership of products and take considerable responsibility and the bonus that goes with that.
My client is based near Luton but would also be happy to accommodate people in their office in Sheffield.