Consultant – Middle and Back Office Oversight – Investment Management

This role involves understanding the impact of AI/ML on operational controls, data quality, and process resilience in investment management middle/back office functions. The consultant will identify, evaluate, and prioritize risks, support oversight of key functions, and assist clients in strengthening operational governance. While AI/ML is mentioned as a technology trend to evaluate, the core responsibilities are focused on risk, oversight, and operational improvements within financial services.

What you'd actually do

  1. Learn how to identify, evaluate, and prioritize business, operational, regulatory, and technology risks across the middle and back office, and support development of practical risk mitigation strategies.
  2. Support oversight of key investment management operating functions, including trade lifecycle controls (pre-/post-trade), trade capture and enrichment, confirmations/affirmations, settlement, reconciliations, collateral and margin processes, corporate actions, pricing/valuation inputs, fee calculations, and exception management.
  3. Assist clients in strengthening operational governance and oversight (e.g., service management routines, escalation paths, control ownership, issue management, and management reporting) across internal teams and third parties (custodians, fund administrators, prime brokers, pricing vendors).
  4. Understand the impact of technology trends and workforce changes by supporting evaluations of automation and artificial intelligence/machine learning on operational controls, data quality, and process resilience in middle/back office functions.
  5. Support the development of client deliverables and internal business needs, including operating model assessments, current/future-state process maps, control inventories, key risk indicators (KRIs), service-level agreements (SLAs) and operating-level agreements (OLAs), vendor oversight artifacts, and procedure documentation.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 2+ years of experience in financial services or consulting with exposure to investment management operations
  • Demonstrated knowledge within asset management, wealth management, hedge funds, private equity, and/or operational risk and controls in investment management
  • Understanding of investment management middle and back office functions
  • Experience with investment management systems, technologies, and tools
  • Experience with oversight and control frameworks for middle/back office operations
  • Strong project/program management skills
  • Strong oral and written communication skills

What the JD emphasized

  • investment management operations
  • operational risk and controls in investment management
  • investment management middle and back office functions
  • investment management systems, technologies, and tools
  • oversight and control frameworks for middle/back office operations