Lead Business Consultant - ABOR

SimCorp; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Pension

Job summary

SimCorp seeks a Business Consultant specialized in ABOR to support major financial clients in implementing SimCorp Dimension. You will advise end-users, capture requirements, and drive configuration in fund accounting and related areas.

Based in the Netherlands, you will act as a sparring partner for clients, monitor issues, and promote best practices across projects while expanding knowledge of the client business and SimCorp Dimension usage.

Qualifications

• Degree in economics, (economic) mathematics/computer science or similar qualification.
• Work experience as a Business Analyst or Consultant from asset managers, asset servicers, insurance or consulting firms (2 years minimum).
• Familiarity with software implementations similar to SimCorp Dimension.
• Strong communication, commercial awareness and quality orientation.
• Fluency in Dutch and English.
• Willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Advise and assist clients with using SimCorp Dimension in daily operations.
• Facilitate between end-users and the new system to capture requirements.
• Build, deliver and test configuration work in Fund accounting and related areas.
• Recommend process improvements and document best practices for implementations.
• Expand knowledge of SimCorp Dimension to ensure client value.

Skills

Dutch fluency

English fluency

Strong communication

Travel willingness

Education

Degree in economics or maths or computer science

Tools

SimCorp Dimension

Job description

What makes Us, Us Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology.

If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp! At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered. If you like what we’re saying, keep reading!

Why this role is important to us

At SimCorp, we facilitate the streamlining of investments, accounting, and operations for major global financial institutions. We do this through IT systems, processes, and financial knowledge. Implementing our software by way of high-quality projects is at the core of what we do. Business consultants are essential to us when introducing our software to our clients. As a Business Consultant specializing in ABOR (accounting book of records), your participation will be instrumental in expanding our market unit and advancing the outcomes of our clients' projects. You will normally work full-time on service delivery projects, which require your in-depth knowledge in the ABOR area. You will be responsible for all aspects of the project stream. You will act as an important sparring partner for your clients and continually monitor, coordinate, and accelerate issues as needed.

What you will be responsible for

You will take over a range of tasks in a project team. Your main mission is to advise and assist clients with using SimCorp Dimension in their daily operational work. You act as a facilitator between financial institution end‑users and their new financial system, dealing with their specific business requirements and covering the complete value chain of asset management. You conduct workshops to explore client requirements working with clients and SimCorp’s team to facilitate capturing, defining, and suggesting the most adapted solution; you build, deliver and test configuration work in aspects of SimCorp Dimension based on client requirements (mainly but not exclusively in fund accounting and accounting) You advise on process improvements through better use of Simcorp Dimension and contribute to improving and documenting best practices for implementations. You constantly expand your knowledge of SimCorp Dimension and the clients’ business to ensure that clients get the optimal value/ outcome out of their Simcorp Dimension usage You contribute to the knowledge sharing within service line projects and tasks You contribute to improving best practices for implementation processes and promote topics across projects

What we value

Most importantly, you can see yourself participating and thriving in the abovementioned position. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest. You like to deep dive into business processes in investment management and focus on modelling them in our software. You have in-depth knowledge about the business at asset managers, fund managers, insurers or banks. In addition you bring with you:

• Degree in economics, (economic) mathematics/computer science or similar qualification
• Work experience as a Business Analyst or Consultant from asset managers, asset servicers, insurance or consulting firms (2 years minimum)
• You are familiar with the implementation of software which is similar to SimCorp Dimension
• Good communication and consulting skills and a high degree of commercial awareness, customer orientation and quality consciousness
• Fluency in Dutch and English
• Willingness to travel

Benefits

Attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide an extensive work‑life balance and opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.

Who we are

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 4,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds in general. SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front‑to‑back offering for our clients. SimCorp is an equal‑opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best‑in‑class solutions to our clients.

#Li‑Hybrid

SimCorp is a provider of industry‑leading integrated investment management solutions for the global buy side. Founded in 1971, with more than 3,000 employees across five continents, SimCorp is a truly global technology leader that empowers more than half of the world’s top 100 financial companies through its integrated platform, services, and partner ecosystem. SimCorp is a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse Group. As of 2024, SimCorp includes Axioma, the leading provider of risk and management and portfolio optimisation solutions for the global buy side.