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VP – Alpha Conversion Executive
| Company | State Street |
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| Location | Boston, MA, USA |
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| Salary | $140000 – $222500 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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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
