Consultant – Client Solutions – Total Portfolio Solutions

Consultant – Client Solutions – Total Portfolio Solutions

Requirements

• Ability to apply operational business practices and coordinate with other closely related areas to improve efficiency.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Power BI and automation tools), with particular emphasis on Excel.
• Understanding of institutional investment industry, including markets, instruments, funds, fund structures, trading, etc., including alternative assets and related operational processes.
• Explains information, conveys performance expectations and handles sensitive issues.
• 3+ years of industry experience, preferably billing, financial analysis/modeling and project management is ideal.
• Attention to detail and ability to multi-task & prioritize work.
• Experience with financial analysis, ability to create, support and test financial models. Comfortable with large data sets and integrating data from multiple sources.
• Prior project management skills working across a large organization involving many different functional areas.
• Solid communication skills, written and oral. Ability to communicate across all levels of the organization.
• B.A. or B.S. degree.

Responsibilities

• Process owner and primary contact for all invoicing and fee related setups for TPS.
• Provide necessary information to Fee Billing team for the production of invoices, fee setups, analysis and calculations for FOS product clients.
• Proactively monitor fee information for errors with calculations, input, and variances in fees from one period to another.
• Resolve fee related inquiries in a timely manner.
• Communicate and escalate potential billing issues to Fee Billing/TPS Management as required.
• May perform various analysis required to assess the financial position and operational results of the organization.
• Research moderately complex accounting transactions and reporting issues.
• Supports monthly financial analysis and reporting (actual spend to date, forecast and status of spend) for TPS across multiple areas: Operations, Client Support, and Client Delivery.
• Creates accurate analysis and reporting through attention to detail and in-depth business understanding. Recognizes unexpected variances and investigates the cause by partnering across TPS teams. In-depth knowledge of the numbers and is able to comfortably speak to the data with stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Presents information in a concise, intuitive format focused on key takeaways and actionable recommendations to leadership.
• Works with TPS leadership and Finance support team to create annual financial plan.
• Works with key stakeholders within and outside of TPS (such as Procurement, Finance, external vendors, etc.) to analyze opportunities to improve financial performance of TPS.
• Creates processes as needed to collect key data points related to the above types of analysis.
• Passionately looks for and pursues improvements to data quality, aggregation, analyses, and reporting for monthly, annual, and ad hoc processes. Approaches challenges by embracing new technologies and collaborating with team partners.
• Manages execution of improvement projects by creating clear plans, holding yourself and the team accountable to milestones and deliverables, and providing transparent communication to leadership and stakeholders.
• Create and maintain monthly reporting of vendor level expenses. Analyze and report on variances and expense optimization opportunities.
• Work with Business Owner to assess business justification for their vendor spend.
• Partner with Procurement to process vendor renewals.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.