Middle Office Aladdin Consultant

Job Title: Middle Office Aladdin Consultant

The Middle Office Aladdin Consultant supports the implementation of Aladdin across Middle Office operational workstreams, ensuring robust delivery discipline and acting as a key point of contact for operational delivery within a wider programme. This role focuses on business process re-engineering, configuration, testing, training, and pilot/parallel/go-live support to achieve a smooth transition to Aladdin and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Support Middle Office implementation activities across operational workstreams, including Trade Operations, Reconciliations, Corporate Actions, Fund Trading and Derivatives Operations.
• Contribute to operational project plans and maintain implementation tracking tools to monitor progress and key milestones.
• Provide regular status updates to programme leads and stakeholders, highlighting risks, issues and dependencies.
• Lead or support business process re-engineering (BPR) workshops to review existing processes and define target-state operating models.
• Document process outcomes from BPR workshops, manage follow-up questions, incorporate stakeholder feedback and support formal process sign-off.
• Validate Aladdin configuration for Middle Office workflows and identify gaps required to support testing and operational readiness.
• Ensure Middle Office readiness for user acceptance testing (UAT), pilot, parallel run and go-live activities.
• Support UAT, pilot, parallel, go-live and post-go-live phases, including defect ownership, issue resolution and handover readiness.
• Prepare training scripts and materials for Middle Office users and other stakeholders.
• Support the setup and use of training environments, deliver or assist in training sessions and respond to business follow-up questions.
• Coordinate activities and dependencies across Front Office, custodians, administrators, external providers, technology teams and programme governance forums.
• Maintain strong stakeholder management throughout the programme, ensuring clear communication and alignment on implementation activities.
• Act as a point of contact for operational delivery within the programme, ensuring issues are escalated and resolved in a timely manner.

Essential Skills

• At least 5 years’ experience within Asset Management Operations, Investment Operations or Aladdin Middle Office implementation delivery.
• Deep knowledge of one or more operational workstreams, including Trade Operations, Reconciliations, Corporate Actions, Fund Trading and Derivatives Operations.
• Hands-on experience contributing to operational project plans and maintaining implementation tracking tools.
• Proven ability to provide regular status updates to programme leads and governance forums.
• Demonstrated capability to lead or support business process re-engineering (BPR) workshops.
• Strong skills in documenting process outcomes, managing follow-up questions and incorporating feedback from stakeholders.
• experience validating Aladdin configuration and identifying gaps to support testing and operational readiness.
• Solid understanding of UAT, pilot, parallel run, go-live and post-go-live support processes.
• experience with defect ownership, issue resolution and handover readiness in a project or programme environment.
• Ability to prepare training scripts and support training environments for Middle Office and related teams.
• experience delivering or supporting training sessions and responding to business queries.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to coordinate across Front Office, custodians, administrators, external providers and technology teams.
• Good understanding of investment management and asset management operational processes.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• experience working as a consultant within technology or operational change environments.
• Background in implementation projects within investment management or asset management.
• Knowledge and practical experience of business process re-engineering (BPR) methodologies.
• Exposure to programme governance forums and structured project delivery frameworks.
• Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to present complex operational changes clearly.
• Ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders across business and technology functions.
• Comfort working in cross-functional teams and coordinating with external providers such as custodians and administrators.

Why Work Here?

This opportunity offers the chance to work on a high-impact transformation programme in a collaborative and professional environment, where structured delivery and continuous improvement are highly valued. You will gain exposure to leading investment technology and complex operational change, while working alongside experienced colleagues and stakeholders across business and technology. The culture promotes knowledge sharing, professional growth and the development of deep expertise in Middle Office operations and Aladdin implementation.

Work Environment

The role operates within a structured programme environment focused on implementing Aladdin in Middle Office operations. You will work closely with Front Office teams, custodians, administrators, external providers and internal technology teams, using project planning and tracking tools to manage delivery. The environment is detail-oriented and change-focused, requiring careful documentation, testing, and coordination across multiple workstreams. Working patterns typically follow standard professional office hours, with additional flexibility around key implementation phases such as UAT, pilot, parallel run and go-live. Dress code aligns with a typical professional office setting.

Location

London, UK