The Role:
The goal of the Senior Business Consultant is to contribute to the success of the project by providing specific software and industry experience while mentoring other team members.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide industry and functional advice and troubleshooting in the discovery workshop, design, implementation, testing, and production support of the Product solution for the client’s business needs.
- Present the Product solution to client users.
- Support the deliverables of the Technical Consultants by providing business and functional guidance, review, testing, and validation of scripted solutions (reports, plugins, and interfaces) as directed by Product Manager.
- Consult with client users to determine business requirements and work processes to be addressed by one or more areas of the Product solution.
- Demonstrate deep knowledge in one or more areas of Treasury Management System (TMS) configuration and the Treasury business.
- Provide guidance to Business Consultants in one or more functional areas of the Product solution.
- Assist with professional services best practices as directed by Line Manager.
- Assume hands-on project implementation duties in all phases of the Product implementation, reporting to the Project Manager.
- Gather and document business requirements, configuration designs, test plans/results, and any other deliverables required by the project as determined by the Project Manager and Lead Business Consultant.
- Keep Line Manager and Project Manager(s) informed regarding the status of assigned responsibilities.
- Adhere to implementation best practices in one or more functional areas of the ION solution in all functional design, specifications, custom coding, unit testing, and other deliverables.
- Follow ION documentation standards and resolution process flow for all deliverables.
- Maintain full chargeability on client account(s) as assigned.
Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications:
- Treasury experience with hands on TMS knowledge preferably with, but not limited to, Reval.
- Front Office/Risk: Experience with Derivatives which include Foreign Exchanges, Interest Rate Swaps, Cross Currency Swaps. Familiar with other deal types which include external debt deals, Intercompany Loans, Credit Facilities, Letters of Credits, and Guarantees.
- Risk: Familiar with hedging programs which include Cash Flow and Fair Value Hedges. Candidate should have a general understanding of what happens with Cash Flow and Fair Value hedges with MTM and Realized Gains/Losses.
- Risk / Hedge Accounting: Candidate should have a general understanding of risk accounting which includes Derivative Accounting. This will include Derivative Asset, Derivative Liability, OCI, MTM, Interest payable and receivable, etc.
- Payments: Experience in MT101 and XML payments. Candidate should have a general understanding of Domestic and International payments in formats MT101 and XML formats.
- Cash Management: Understanding of Cash Management items that include Cash Positioning and Reconciliation. Candidate should understand how overall cash impacts a company and the importance of reconciling bank statements. Candidate's that are familiar with the different bank statement files, BAI2, MT940, and CAMT is a plus.
- Cash Accounting: Experience in cash accounting and understanding how entries are generated from transactions within bank statements.
- Bachelor's degree in one of the following: Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Economics, or a related IT field or equivalent experience in a related field.
- Ability to work as part of a project team structure.
- Ability to work onsite at client locations.
About us
We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.
• Over 2,000 of the world’s leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world’s central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk.
• Over 800 of the world’s leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world’s financial market infrastructure.
ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group with 13,000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe,
Our ever-expanding global footprint, cutting edge products, and over 40,000 customers worldwide provide an unparalleled career experience for those who share our vision.
ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.
ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.
