Solution Consultant

**Solution Consultant (Investment Software)**

**Cape Town/ Jhb**

Join a global platform provider in the wealth management who has partnered with hundreds of the worlds leading financial institutions.

Over 4000 employees in 21 countries, the companies mission is to open-up wealth, empowering all people to create wealth through personal investment, aligned with things they care about the most, on their own terms.

The organisation combines technology, infrastructure and investment operations in a single state-of-the-art platform that frees its institutional customers to create hyper-personalized and innovative products and services, that are seamlessly aligned with the needs of their clients.

**Job Role**

The Solution Consultant role is a key role within a team, and will provide Leadership and Expertise in the following areas:

- Provide up to date knowledge, awareness of current trends and future direction of the local Asset Management industry.
- Present & explain existing company capability.
- Define, challenge & control scope of a Project.
- Capture & document customer business outcomes to create requirements, solution designs and agreeing of Joint Target Operating Models.
- Platform integration design.
- Business transformation support and consultancy services.
- Regulation and advice on platform compliance.
- Customer training programmes and knowledge transfer.
- Platform configuration and delivering the MWS process.
- Analyst & Developer handovers and support.
- Functional Reviews & TDD walkthroughs.
- Defect verification.

**Team Responsibilities**:
The Team is responsible for providing a range of high value services to the companys existing and potential customers. This includes:

- Being responsible for the Platform configuration and running the comapny Model Wealth Solution configuration process for new platform implementations, plus supporting Sales Team in winning & sizing new projects.
- Carrying out a variety of Consulting assignments for existing customers and new customers in a variety of contexts, including:

- Proposition definition
- TOM definition
- Business transformation
- Customer training and knowledge transfer
- Definition of bespoke requirements where required for customer platform solutions.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Provide leadership and support for your aligned company client project, building capability and providing support for more junior members of the team. Instil a spirit of continuous improvement in the team.
- Have a full understanding of a Platform Target Operating Model, including the interfaces between platform and customers operations and company Investment operations. Provide advice to customers regarding best practice operating model design.
- Be an expert in the Model Wealth Solution, and run the MWS Configuration process for new platform implementations, capturing all customer configuration points in service configuration documents.
- Document any bespoke customer requirements, be the solution owner to ensure these are met.
- Provide review and quality assurance of solution documentation.
- Provide training programmes and knowledge transfer services for company customers.
- Provide consultancy services, as required, to other company clients and projects.
- Have a good knowledge of the regulatory environment in which the Solution Consultant operates and provide advice and guidance to customers in respect of delivering a compliant platform.
- Be an SME in the platform market in which the company operates and provide training and support for other areas of the company business.

**Requirements**:

- IT/Business Degree essential
- 3+ years experience in a Delivery/Consulting environment in the Financial Services/Wealth market.
- Experience working within a Business Analysis / Consulting role.
- Experience in a consulting, analysis or architecture environment.
- An understanding of the Financial regulatory environment

**Knowledge/ Skills**:

- Be able to evidence establishing an environment of continuous improvement and capability development.
- Confident, and able to take initiative given client and delivery-focused environment.
- Independent, self-directing and delivery focused working style.
- Superior analytical thinking.
- Commercially aware.
- Intermediate computer skills essential.
- Excellent organizational, administration and time management skills.
- Good team communication skills, confident in dealing with internal and external clients.
- Highly developed written and oral communication skills.