Management Consultant - Asset Servicing / Corporate Actions

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About Capco

Capco is a global technology and business consultancy, focused on the financial services sector. We are passionate about helping our clients succeed in an ever-changing industry.

• Experts in capital markets, banking and payments and wealth and asset management
• Deep knowledge in financial services offering, including e.g. Finance, Risk and Compliance, Financial Crime, Core Banking etc.
• Committed to growing our business and hiring the best talent to help us get there
• Focus on maintaining our nimble, agile and entrepreneurial culture

Capco culture

• Strong entrepreneurial and innovation streak runs through business.
• We take pride in being disruptive, innovative and being more agile than competitors.
• Our strong brand recognition and singular focus on financial services means that we can punch above our weight when competing with Accenture, the Big 4 and other large multi-national consulting firms.
• Our culture is non-hierarchical, we have leaders who are very accessible and inclusive.
• Little interest in reputation and what you’ve done in the past - judged on what you do now and what you bring to Capco - makes it a genuinely meritocratic culture.

 Your Role

As an Capital Markets Business consultant at Capco, you will be responsible for working with clients to determine, structure, prioritise and implement their needs – be they wholesale transformation, Technology Change or Regulatory in nature.

AS PART OF THE BUSINESS CONSULTING TEAM AT CAPCO, THE BUSINESS CONSULTANT WILL

• Deliver subject matter expertise, thought leadership, and advise clients on asset servicing with a focus on all stages of the asset custody services lifecycle, including but not limited to event capture / position gathering / outcome processing / settlement, including proxy voting, dividends settlements etc.
• Work to deliver value to clients across their asset servicing portfolios.
• Analyse, design and document complex Target Operating Models, operational processes, user stories and functional requirements.
• Design & own project delivery plans, or support programme leadership in creation and maintenance of plans.
• Prepare for and facilitate client meetings & workshops with stakeholders across all seniority levels, including managing directors.
• Manage administration and maintenance of project management tools, including JIRA
• Develop and produce metrics & reporting where required, and present this to clients and stakeholders.
• Advise on, and implement, best practice change management practices across client change portfolios.
• Work closely with operations, technology and front-office to deliver best in class solutions for clients.

Your Skills and Experience

Capco is looking for strong post-trade change professionals in Capital Markets, with a focus on experience of Asset Services, specifically corporate actions.

Required

- Minimum 5+ years’ experience, and good understanding of corporate actions and income events across the full event lifecycle - event capture / position gathering / outcome processing / settlement, including proxy voting, dividends settlements etc.

- Minimum 5+ years’ experience of delivering change in an investment banking, or buy-side, post-trade environment in either Project Management or Business Analyst roles.

- Experience of Broadridge application suite for post-trade processing.

- Strong experience of leading change in waterfall, agile and hybrid environments:

- Delivering change through all phases of project delivery, from initial feasibility assessment and business case analysis, through requirements, design, delivery, and transition to operations.

- Comfortable with agile development methodologies as part of hybrid delivery methodologies.

- Experienced business analyst, able to:

- Elicit functional and non-functional requirements from business and operations stakeholders.

- Provide guidance and direction to technology, and partner with technology to deliver best-in-class solutions.

- Manage and negotiate expectations of senior leadership around tech delivery, balancing business needs with the possible.

- Experience in managing matrixed organisations and negotiating between operations, technology, vendors, and business stakeholders to achieve optimum outcomes.

- Experienced in managing and influencing senior level stakeholders up to and including managing directors.

Preferred

1. Experience of Broadridge ASTRID corporate actions.
2. Experience of working in a professional services environment (consultancy) within Financial Services.
3. Comfortable managing across multiple workstreams and effective prioritisation and time management, with experience of managing multiple projects/workstreams.
4. Client focussed, placing clients at the forefront of consideration for all decisions.

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