Senior Business Consultant - ABOR

Location : Paris or Brussels

Who we are 

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds in general. 

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients. 

SimCorp is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients. 

Why this role is important to us: 

At SimCorp, we facilitate the streamlining of investments, accounting, and operations for major global financial institutions. We do this through IT systems, processes, and financial knowledge. Implementing our software by way of high-quality projects is at the core of what we do. Business consultants are essential to us when introducing our software to our clients.  

As a Business Consultant specializing in ABOR (accounting book of records), your participation will be instrumental in expanding our market unit and advancing the outcomes of our clients' projects.  

You will normally work full-time on service delivery projects, which require your in-depth knowledge in the ABOR area. You will be responsible for all aspects of the project stream.  

You will act as an important sparring partner for your clients and continually monitor, coordinate, and escalate issues as needed. 

What you will be responsible for 

• You will take over a range of tasks in a project team. Your main mission is to advise and assist clients with using SimCorp Dimension in their daily operational work. You act as a facilitator between financial institution end-users and their new financial system, dealing with their specific business requirements and covering the complete value chain of asset management. 
• You conduct workshops to explore client requirements working with clients and SimCorp’s team to facilitate capturing, defining, and suggesting the most adapted solution;
• You build, deliver and test configuration work in aspects of SimCorp Dimension based on client requirements (mainly but not exclusively in fund accounting and accounting)
• You advise on process improvements through better use of Simcorp Dimension and contribute to improving and documenting best practices for implementations.
• You constantly expand your knowledge of SimCorp Dimension and the clients’ business to ensure that clients get the optimal value/ outcome out of their Simcorp Dimension usage
• You contribute to the knowledge sharing within service line projects and tasks
• You contribute to improving best practices for implementation processes and promote topics across projects

What we value 

Most importantly, you can see yourself participating and thriving in the abovementioned position. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest. 

• You like to deep dive into business processes in investment management and focus on modelling them in our software. You have in-depth knowledge about the business at asset managers, fund managers, insurers or banks. In addition you bring with you:Degree in economics, (economic) mathematics/computer science or similar qualification
• Work experience as a Business Analyst or Consultant from asset managers, asset servicers, insurance or consulting firms (2 years minimum)
• You are familiar with the implementation of software which is similar to SimCorp Dimension
• Good communication and consulting skills and a high degree of commercial awareness, customer orientation and quality consciousness
• Fluency in French and English
• Willingness to travel   

Benefits 

Attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. 

Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide an extensive work-life balance and opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take. 

Next steps 

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process inc