Aladdin Client Transformations, Front Office, Associate

About This Role

The Aladdin Client Transformations Associate - Front Office is a role within the Aladdin Client Transformation team. This team is responsible for the installation and deployment of Aladdin and related products and services globally. Implementations, including both institutional and retail assignments, are high-profile initiatives that require team members to have external exposure and play an active role in the redefinition of investment organizations.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the client’s project team, for example program managers, risk managers, portfolio managers, technologists, and provide leadership throughout the Aladdin implementation.
• Engage the client’s key leaders to understand, redesign, and deploy strategic business workflows across the investment cycle, including pre-trade decisioning, order management, trading, investment operations, risk management, compliance, oversight, closed-book accounting, and performance measurement and attribution.
• Facilitate and document investment and operational workflow design sessions for various asset classes, including equities, fixed income, alternatives, derivatives, and related workflows.
• Gain in-depth knowledge of Aladdin functionality and workflows, and develop industry expertise, for example pensions, insurers, asset managers, to ensure clients take full advantage of the suite of Aladdin products and workflows.
• Coordinate and assist, and where appropriate lead, client-specific Aladdin configuration, testing, and user training.
• Work closely with the client and Aladdin Product Managers to support client development needs, including API-enabled use cases and data exchange.
• Work closely with the client and key internal functional teams to ensure the full range of capabilities are considered during an Aladdin implementation, and to align to standard methodologies and integration patterns.
• Participate in Aladdin business development activities, assisting in platform demonstrations, implementation pre-planning, and client due diligence as a product and workflow subject matter authority.
• Actively manage client communications regarding Aladdin product changes and configurations related to onboarding, including release impacts and configuration decisions.
• Comfort with periodic regional and international travel based on client location and project needs.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with portfolio management workflows and investment analytics as a buy-side technology provider or as a front-office practitioner, with at least 6 years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong familiarity with capital markets instruments, equities, fixed income, private markets, derivatives, and the associated analytics or investment life cycle.
• Experience implementing scalable and repeatable business processes, including program management and control frameworks.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a proven ability to build relationships with internal and client stakeholders.
• Excellent creative, analytical, and technology skills with an entrepreneurial approach to large, complex projects, and the ability to execute autonomously and in cross-functional teams.
• Strong attention to detail, a proactive approach, and a hands-on mindset.
• Working proficiency with SQL and at least one general-purpose language, for example Python or similar, and comfort with RESTful APIs and JSON data structures.
• Progress toward or completion of globally recognized professional designations, for example FRM, CFA, CAIA, or similar.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus
• Benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits
• Hybrid work model with at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week