VP – Alpha Conversion Executive

VP – Alpha Conversion Executive

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration/Management or related field
• 10 years of relevant financial industry experience
• Proven experience in Migration, Cutover/Conversion discipline as part of large scale transformation projects – ideally within a context of migrating from Clients legacy architecture on to a vendor or service providers systems
• Demonstrated capacity in challenging & optimising cutover approaches & runbooks and management thereof for the benefit of High Value transformation projects
• Executive presence and ability to effectively communicate status, strategy, path to green at steering and sponsor levels
• Demonstrated high Level knowledge or experience in Capital markets including Middle Office, Securities, Bank Loans, IBOR / ABOR, Transaction Mgmt.
• System knowledge of RKS, CRIMS, Eagle, Eagle Star, PAM, Portia, WSO or other is preferred
• Demonstrated excellent Communication Skills with ability to effectively run meetings and collaborate across teams and functions
• Demonstrated high level of skill in team management, employee development and mentoring
• Proven ability to work in a high paced environment, be flexible, follow tight deadlines, organize, and prioritize work
• Working knowledge of data quality measures across referential, completeness, tolerance, index and business driven data qualitative and quantitative measures
• Solid ability to proactively identify potential issues and drive resolution
• Experience owning initiatives / projects related to Middle Office Client Onboarding
• Proven intermediate Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint and Access skills, as well as Microsoft Project, JIRA or other project management software experience
• Solid understanding of Data Warehouses and Databases including SQL

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of Alpha E2E and middle office recordkeeping conversion activities for client programs
• Manage ongoing client relationships, cross workstream collaboration and conversion team oversight
• Coordinate the activities of those involved in the conversion which could be up to 10-15 individuals located in different time zones
• Serve as client facing lead for all conversation related activity with client and internal business units
• Conversion workstream project management, client executive updates and presentations
• Coordinate and drive the deliverables of conversion planning and testing in order to meet the milestones
• Drive the data conversion development lifecycle and methodology including requirements analysis, solution design, client acceptance, timeline creation, implementation, unit testing, deployment tools, and maintenance
• Lead issue resolution and gap closure in terms of data provided or discrepancies in data between legacy presentation and the future state model based on the feedback provided
• Support Conversion Manager in leading all conversion events which includes some weekend activity and off hours
• Serve as a subject matter expert speaking to details as required while managing multiple processes
• Resource planning and vendor relationship management
• Weekend work required occasionally
• Occasional travel required for client or global team onsite visits

Preferred Qualifications

• System knowledge of RKS, CRIMS, Eagle, Eagle Star, PAM, Portia, WSO or other is preferred