Professional Services Consultant

This is an excellent opportunity for a Professional Services Consultant with a strong technical slant, looking for a challenging career move. Working within the UnaVista team, part of a leading UK investment and financial services company, you will be responsible for the implementation of the complete software delivery lifecycle for regulatory, post trade, reconciliation, and data solutions.

To be successful in this job, you should have Professional Services or Implementation experience and a proven software delivery background preferably within some of the following areas:

- Regulatory/ Compliance reporting - e.g. MiFIR, EMIR
- Post trade services - e.g. trade confirmations, clearing
- Matching and reconciliation - e.g. cash nostro, stock depot, FOBO, intersystem
- Strong technical and data analysis experience, particularly a very good working knowledge of SQL, is a core prerequisite of the role. Due to the nature of the UnaVista product, technical knowledge and experience will expedite your acclimatisation to the Professional Services Consultant position. Experience of requirements management involving both internal and external project stakeholders is important. Experience of project/ process management is desirable, although formal accreditation (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP) is not required.
- Working knowledge of any ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) product is desirable, but not required.
- Due to the client facing nature of the role, excellent communication skills are essential, as is the ability to deal with a wide cross section of individuals and departments (internally and externally). As a Professional Services Consultant you will liaise on a regular basis with client project teams and stakeholders, primarily for the purpose of fulfilling the core software configuration functions and performing basic project management and business analysis duties.
- The ability to adapt and scale on demand is critical as you may be required to work on concurrent, parallel multi-stream/ multi-client project engagements.

Key responsibilities of the role:

- Implement UnaVista solutions as per the agreed functional requirements, with full accountability for quality assurance.
- Perform basic project management duties to ensure controlled implementation of UnaVista solutions to clients.
- Assist with the efficient and accurate elicitation and documentation of client business and functional requirements in accordance with UnaVista business analysis processes.
- Assist with the creation of supporting project/ technical documentation in conjunction with other UnaVista staff.
- Assist the wider Professional Services team with technical input for their work streams.
- Drive problems and roadblocks to resolution with mínimal assistance.

Essential experience and skills required:

- Experience working as a Professional Services Consultant (or similar role), ideally with experience at either a financial software vendor or financial institution (BO/MO).
- Strong knowledge of SQL, coupled with strong data analysis skills.
- Good knowledge of data manipulation, enrichment, validation, normalisation, and underlying concepts related to data reconciliation and quality management.
- Good background in incident investigation and incident resolution.
- Exposure to/ basic business knowledge of middle/ back office financial processes, especially in the areas outlined in the role profile (section 1).
- Good industry/ financial knowledge; ability to communicate and understand terminology used by clients (both technical and financial terminology).
- Excellent communication, writing and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to maintain a positive attitude and calm demeanour, especially in escalated circumstances.
- Strong listening skills; open to input from other team members and departments.
- Ability to lead through influence.

At LSEG, we believe that creating a diverse and inclusive organisation is fundamental to the way we deliver on our promise of creating essential partnerships and open opportunities. Our open culture is central to how we deliver our purpose - driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth - in everything we do.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 70 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, incl