Job Description

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

Key Responsibilities:

Suitable candidate should be able to consult with clients offering their subject matter expertise in Investment Banking & Investment Management functions including below domains:

• Capital Markets (e.g. Front Office, Middle Office, Market and Reference Data, Collateral Management, Liquidity Management, Treasury, etc.)

• Asset & Wealth Management (Front Office Advisory, Salesforce)

• Risk Management - Market Risk/Credit Risk/Operational Risk

• Post trade (e.g. Reference Data, Risk Management, Finance & Accounting)

• Exchange & Trading avenues, Clearing house

• Regulatory reforms (e.g. Basel, MiFID, CSDR, EMIR, IFRS9)

• Robotics Process Automation

• Trading platforms (e.g. Murex, Calypso, Fidessa etc.)

• Data Governance and Management – Data lineage, MDM functionality and implementation, Product and instrument set up

• Agile and Hybrid SDLC Methodology

• Typical responsibilities would include;

• Assess ‘AS IS’ and define target operating model (TOM) and Target Process Architecture

• Develop and manage business requirement specification

• Planning and designing User Acceptance (UAT) and Business Readiness Testing

• Change Management

• Project management and onshore/offshore client management

• Strengthen offerings – development of collateral, methodology refinements, best practices updates and trends tracking, create and support proposals incorporating Accenture value proposition

• Incorporate Accenture best practices & development methodologies into every stage of the project management lifecycle

Job Requirements

Key Qualifications:

• Prior experience of working on consulting projects is required. An ideal candidate would have contributed to Transformation and Technology Improvement Programs for Investment Banking and Asset & Wealth management firms

• Deep functional knowledge of operations, front and middle office, finance and risk functions

• Experience in strategy, operations, process redesign, or business architecture in a Capital market/financial services environment is highly desired

• Deep knowledge of financial products including equities, fixed income, derivatives, credit, etc.

• The candidate should have a good understanding of industry trends, challenges, business and technology imperatives etc.

• Should have excellent communication, presentation and client interaction skills

• Should have an analytical bent of mind with capability of deciding on nature of information needed and the ability to derive business sense of such information

• Should be able to think logically and present ideas convincingly

• Initiative in keeping abreast of changing industry practices, analysis and design methods, tools and techniques and emerging technologies

• Ability to develop & maintain working relationships with several stakeholders and senior professionals

• Should have a Master’s Degree in Management.

• FRM/CFA/PRM or Other industry specific certification is a plus

• Demonstrate proficiency in Digital, Robotics Process Automation (RPA), Blockchain and Risk Management from the Investment Banking and Investment Management perspective

• Hands on experience on third party packages like Murex, Calypso, SunGard Front Arena, Summit, Kondor+ and Wall Street Systems is desirable