Solution Consultant

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Role Description

The Solution Consultant role is a key role within the Solution Consulting team, and will provide leadership and expertise in the following areas:

• Providing up to date knowledge, awareness of current trends and future direction of the local asset management industry
• Presenting & explaining existing FNZ capability
• Defining and challenging scope of a project
• Capturing & documenting customer business outcomes to create requirements, solution designs and agreeing of Joint Target Operating Models
• Platform integration design
• Business transformation support and consultancy services
• Regulations and advice on platform compliance
• Customer training programmes and knowledge transfer
• Platform configuration and delivering of FNZ’s Model Wealth Solution (MWS) process
• Analyst & Developer handovers and support
• Functional Reviews & TDD walkthroughs
• Defining business readiness processes and agreeing SLAs
• Defect verification

This role demands individuals who:

• Are consistently solution & execution focused
• Capable of dealing with complex problems & environments
• Have strong technology, analytical and data interpretation skills;
• Take ownership for an outcome on behalf of a customer
• Comfortable with high levels of customer, stakeholder interaction & management

Team Responsibilities:

• The Solution Consulting team is responsible for providing a range of high value services to FNZ’s existing and potential customers.
• This includes being responsible for the Platform configuration and running the FNZ Model Wealth Solution configuration process for new platform implementations, plus supporting sales team in winning & sizing new projects.
• It also involves carrying out a variety of consulting assignments for existing customers and new customers in a variety of contexts, including proposition definition, TOM definition, Business transformation, customer training and knowledge transfer, and the definition of bespoke requirements where required for customer platform solutions.
• Once business outcomes are understood from FNZ clients, these must be accurately documented and fed them into the delivery process to ensure they are easily understood and precise to deliver the right outcome for our clients.
• The team also works closely with FNZ’s Business Readiness Team, Operations and Production Support teams to ensure that FNZ provides its services compliantly, reliably and to scalable once implemented in production.

Specific Role Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and support for your aligned FNZ client project, building capability and providing support for more junior members of the team. Instil a spirit of continuous improvement in the team.
• Work with FNZ customers & internal stakeholders to help define proposition and product requirements. Provide Market expertise as required. Be an SME in FNZ Platform functionality and apply this understanding to help customers define propositions that best utilise or enhance FNZ core platform capabilities.
• Have a full understanding of a Platform Target Operating Model, including the interfaces between platform and customers operations and FNZ Investment operations. Provide advice to customers regarding best practice operating model design.
• Be an expert in the Model Wealth Solution and run the MWS Configuration process for new platform implementations, capturing all customer configuration points in service configuration documents.
• Document any bespoke customer requirements, be the solution owner to ensure these are met.
• Provide review and quality assurance of solution documentation
• Provide training programmes and knowledge transfer services for FNZ customers.
• Provide consultancy services, as required, to other FNZ clients and projects.
• Have a good knowledge of the regulatory environment in which the Solution Consultant operates and provide advice and guidance to customers in respect of delivering a compliant platform.
• Be an SME in the platform market in which FNZ operate, and provide training and support for other areas of the FNZ business.

Experience required

Preferred Industry Knowledge:

• Experience in a consulting, analysis or architecture environment.
• General investment/wealth/life and/or pensions products and the markets in which FNZ and our customers operate.
• FNZ Platform expertise, including being an SME in at least 4 functional areas of the platform.
• For the jurisdiction being hired for, an understanding of the regulatory environment FNZ operates within and a knowledge of the upcoming changes.
• 3+ years of experience in a delivery/consulting environment in the financial services/wealth market.

Required Knowledge & Skills:

• 1st class degree or equivalent experience
• Experience working within a business analysis / consulting role.
• Be able to evidence establishing an environment of continuous improvement and capability development.
• Confident, and able to take initiative given client– and delivery-focused environment.
• Independent, self-directing and delivery focused working style.
• Superior analytical thinking. · Commercially aware.
• Intermediate computer skills essential.
• Excellent organisational, administration and time management skills.
• Good team communication skills, confident in dealing with internal and external clients.
• Highly developed written and oral communication skills.

What we offer

• 26 days of holiday & 7 sick days per year
• Home Office support (flexible working hours)
• Meal Allowance 100 CZK/day
• Extra paid overtime (upon agreement)
• Multisport card (available also for partner or child)
• Cafeteria system (600 CZK/month)
• 26 weeks fully paid maternity and paternity leave (including 26 weeks for the Primary Caregiver and 13 weeks for the Secondary Caregiver)
• 8 weeks fully paid bereavement leave
• 2 weeks fully paid emergency leave
• Pension or Life Insurance (2% from Contractual Monthly Gross Salary) – after probation period
• Education and Training (funding of professional exams, LinkedIn trainings)
• Relocation and Business Trips support
• Support for statutory leaves (e.g., wedding day, blood donation)
• Health and Maternity Care
• Premium and On-call Remuneration (upon agreement)
• Referral program