Consultant, Business Systems Analysis
About Our Firm:
Granite Solutions Groupe provides financial services decision makers with people and solutions that deliver. Our clients count on us to deliver the right talent at the right time to achieve critical business results. We leverage our industry knowledge and passion for client priorities to deliver human capital solutions.
GSG was founded in 1998 as a consulting firm delivering project management and technology solutions for the financial services industry. GSG now has a global presence, with team members deployed across the U.S. at Fortune 1000 companies and high-performing Fintech firms.
High-caliber consultants are the face of GSG at our client organizations and offices. We value the deep relationships we have with our consultants that enable us to place them in roles where their skills will have an immediate impact. The GSG consulting team is comprised of diverse, experienced, driven, and dynamic contributors who excel at getting things done.
About the Opportunity:
We are seeking a Business Systems Analyst (BSA) with strong IBOR and investment operations experience to support complex investment-management technology implementations.
The ideal candidate combines deep middle/back-office knowledge, IBOR expertise, client-facing implementation experience, and strong technical/data analysis skills. This is a hands-on BSA role requiring the ability to investigate complex data issues, write SQL, understand integrations, and translate business requirements into practical technology solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Document current- and future-state workflows across positions, cash, trades, reference data, and accounting.
- Gather and document IBOR requirements and solution designs, including business rules, data sources, processing frequencies, reconciliations, exception handling, and downstream consumers.
- Develop data mapping and interface requirements across client, custodian, accounting, market data, and investment-management systems.
- Define configuration requirements including account structures, position and cash rules, workflows, exception queues, and operational controls.
- Investigate position, cash, transaction, tax lot, and reconciliation breaks and perform detailed data analysis to identify root causes.
- Write complex SQL to investigate data, validate results, identify discrepancies, and troubleshoot issues.
- Support conversion and reconciliation activities, validating that converted positions, cash, transactions, and balances tie back to source systems.
- Develop testing assets, including test scenarios, scripts, expected results, defect analysis, and UAT support.
- Support cutover and stabilization, including conversion sequencing, readiness criteria, issue resolution, operational procedures, and knowledge transfer.
- Work closely with business, operations, technical, data, and implementation teams throughout the project lifecycle.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in asset management technology, investment operations, or financial services.
- 5+ years of IBOR or middle-office experience.
- Strong understanding of IBOR and ABOR, positions, cash, transactions, tax lots, reconciliations, and investment accounting.
- Strong knowledge of middle/back-office processes, including corporate actions, trade processing, settlement, and investment lifecycle events.
- Strong SQL and data investigation skills.
- Experience with data mapping, interfaces, integrations, and reconciliation.
- Experience delivering client-facing technology or platform implementations.
- Strong requirements gathering, documentation, workshop, testing, and UAT skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Charles River Development (CRD) or comparable investment-management platforms.
- Experience with CRD IBOR Classic or NextGen IBOR.
- Experience with CRD Alpha or front-to-back investment-management implementations.
- Experience with trade matching, post-trade, settlement, custodial, or investment-accounting platforms.
- Knowledge of CTM, Trade Nexus, or SWIFT.
Employee Benefits:
GSG is excited to offer its consultants a robust option of benefits which include comprehensive medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage. You will receive company-paid life insurance. In addition, we hope you will take advantage of eligible commuter benefits-like paying for work-related public transit and parking with pre-tax dollars. Save for your retirement with pre-tax contributions that go directly into your 401K. We also care about your pets with several options for pet insurance, discount card and prescriptions.
GSG’s Commitment to Diversity:
As a diverse-owned business, GSG is committed to creating a diverse workforce, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.