Technical Business Analyst - Fund Accounting & Client Onboarding

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Technical Business Analyst with extensive experience in fund accounting and client onboarding to join our team in Dublin. This role is crucial for bridging the gap between business needs, operational processes, and technology development. You will be instrumental in defining requirements, designing processes, and overseeing system implementations for complex fund administration and client onboarding projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Elicit, document, and manage detailed business and functional requirements from front, middle, and back office stakeholders within fund accounting and client onboarding domains.
• Produce comprehensive documentation, including Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirements Documents (FRDs), user stories, use cases, data flow diagrams, and process maps, utilizing tools like Visio, Confluence, or JIRA.
• Conduct thorough gap analyses to compare current and target operating models, identifying potential risks, dependencies, and proposing effective mitigation strategies.
• Facilitate workshops, sprint ceremonies, and stakeholder review sessions to confirm requirements and foster consensus.
• Provide expert knowledge in core fund accounting functions such as NAV calculation, trade capture, position reconciliation, income processing, corporate actions, and financial reporting.
• Assist with the implementation or enhancement of fund accounting systems, including platforms like SimCorp Dimension, Geneva, InvestOne, Advent, or Charles River.
• Collaborate with operations and technology teams to define and verify accounting rules, booking logic, and profit and loss attribution models.
• Analyze and document data flows between various systems including Order Management Systems (OMS), Portfolio Management Systems (PMS), custodians, and fund accounting platforms.
• Support regulatory and audit requirements, including IFRS/GAAP accounting treatments, fund-level tax reporting, and investor allocations.
• Lead requirements gathering and process design for complete client onboarding workflows, covering KYC/AML, account setup, legal documentation, and data provision.
• Work closely with compliance, legal, operations, and relationship management teams to optimize onboarding processes and reduce the time-to-market for new clients and funds.
• Define and document integration requirements between CRM platforms, onboarding tools (e.g., Salesforce, Fenergo, SSIS), and subsequent fund administration systems.
• Identify opportunities for process automation within client onboarding and support the implementation of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) or workflow management tools.
• Write and execute SQL queries for data analysis, reconciliation testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) validation across fund accounting and onboarding datasets.
• Partner with data engineering and ETL teams to define data mapping specifications, transformation rules, and interface designs.
• Review and contribute to API specifications (REST/SOAP) for system integrations in conjunction with solution architects and developers.
• Support data migration activities, including source-to-target mapping, data cleansing rules, and cut-over planning.

Additional Information

This is a contract position based in Dublin, with a hybrid working arrangement.