Fund Accounting Onboarding Associate
- Employer
- Morgan McKinley
- Location
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- Mar 3, 2025
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- Job Function
- Accounting/Audit/Tax
- Industry Sector
- Finance - General
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Education
- Bachelors
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Fund Accounting Onboarding Associate
Location: Edinburgh
Contract Duration: 10 months
Responsibilities:
- Understand and articulate the impact of assigned on-boarding or new product development requests and, through the development of functional specifications (where required), work closely with our partners on both technology and operations to execute the on-boarding or new product deployment.
- Build and maintain close working relationship with each business partner (e.g. Operations, OSD, Client service, Product, Technology etc)
- Ongoing support in all assigned phases of the product development activity (on-boarding or new product / change) through design, testing and implementation, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery of end deliverables to our partners.
- Gather, understand and document business requirements and support the preparation of functional specifications
- Development & review of detailed operating model from a business and process perspective (touch-point into regional / global operating model)
- Define and document requirements e.g. define inbound and / or outbound data required and any calculations needed.
- Work with the SME / business partner to develop test strategy, document test plans, test scripts and test data, ensuring adequate testing of business requirements and operating model.
- Actively pursue the resolution of business issues identified during testing
- Work within the team to co-ordinate project efforts and delivery plans
- Deliver any necessary training programs
- Work with the manager to identify and manage project risks
Technical Skills & Knowledge:
- Detailed knowledge of fund accounting and / or financial reporting consummate with the grade
- Detailed knowledge of business processes and the operating operating model as it relates to Fund Accounting within the region.
- Detailed knowledge of CIB products which utilise or interact with fund accounting would be beneficial
- Knowledge of a Project Life cycle, project governance, project control, best practices
Experience:
- Previous experience of business analysis
- Previous experience in process re-engineering
- High level of expertise in fund accounting / financial reporting consummate with grade
- Proven networking ability across the organisation
Location: Edinburgh
Contract Duration: 10 months
Responsibilities:
- Understand and articulate the impact of assigned on-boarding or new product development requests and, through the development of functional specifications (where required), work closely with our partners on both technology and operations to execute the on-boarding or new product deployment.
- Build and maintain close working relationship with each business partner (e.g. Operations, OSD, Client service, Product, Technology etc)
- Ongoing support in all assigned phases of the product development activity (on-boarding or new product / change) through design, testing and implementation, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery of end deliverables to our partners.
- Gather, understand and document business requirements and support the preparation of functional specifications
- Development & review of detailed operating model from a business and process perspective (touch-point into regional / global operating model)
- Define and document requirements e.g. define inbound and / or outbound data required and any calculations needed.
- Work with the SME / business partner to develop test strategy, document test plans, test scripts and test data, ensuring adequate testing of business requirements and operating model.
- Actively pursue the resolution of business issues identified during testing
- Work within the team to co-ordinate project efforts and delivery plans
- Deliver any necessary training programs
- Work with the manager to identify and manage project risks
Technical Skills & Knowledge:
- Detailed knowledge of fund accounting and / or financial reporting consummate with the grade
- Detailed knowledge of business processes and the operating operating model as it relates to Fund Accounting within the region.
- Detailed knowledge of CIB products which utilise or interact with fund accounting would be beneficial
- Knowledge of a Project Life cycle, project governance, project control, best practices
Experience:
- Previous experience of business analysis
- Previous experience in process re-engineering
- High level of expertise in fund accounting / financial reporting consummate with grade
- Proven networking ability across the organisation
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