Financial Services Tech Consulting Senior Manager - Asset Management - Aladdin

EY•Boston, MA

About The Position

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world. EY is a leader in serving the global financial services marketplace and the only professional services firm with a separate business unit dedicated to the financial services industry – the Financial Services Organization (FSO). Our focused model and bold ambition have put us at the center of the events that continue to reshape and redefine our industry, working side by side with a range of clients from our most venerable institutions to dynamic new entrants across Banking and Capital Markets, Wealth and Asset Management and Insurance. Our purpose is to help build a financial services industry in which financial institutions are trusted and flourish, and the global economy is healthy, growing, and secure. If you have a passion for rallying together to solve complex challenges, then come join our dynamic FSO team! The opportunity You will leverage your extensive BlackRock Aladdin expertise to design, implement, and support cutting-edge investment management solutions. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will configure innovative workflows, manage seamless integrations, and ensure a smooth transition to the Aladdin platform, all while maintaining peak operational efficiency and compliance alignment. Your deep technical knowledge of Aladdin, combined with strategic leadership, will drive multiple high-impact implementation projects across trading, compliance, portfolio management, and post-trade functions. As a platform owner and delivery leader, you will partner with senior stakeholders across technology and business teams to ensure Aladdin solutions are robust, scalable, and perfectly aligned with the firm’s strategic vision. This role blends hands-on project leadership with the opportunity to shape the long-term roadmap within a dynamic and rapidly growing investment organization.

Requirements

A bachelor's degree and approximately 8 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 7 years of related work experience
Your degree should be in computer science, engineering, accounting, finance or a related field; MBA or MS degree preferred
A minimum of 7+ years of experience working at a financial services company or comparable experience working as an advisor to a financial services company
Experience working in a Hedge Fund, Wealth/Asset Management company or as a Management Consultant in one of these companies
6+ years of hands-on Aladdin experience
Demonstrated experience leading and supporting Aladdin implementations
Demonstrated ability to manage and supervise a team of technology advisors through all phases of the technology life cycle, including requirements definition, architecture, design, development, implementation, conversion and testing
Strong communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills
Comfortable researching client inquiries and emerging issues, including regulations, industry practices, and new technologies
Strong experience in supervising and executing all phases of the technology life cycle, based on proven project management and testing methodologies
Must possess a deep knowledge of technical architecture design and have a good understanding of technology tools and components to reasonably argue for and against all components (middleware, database, reporting tools, etc.) in financial systems architecture
Willingness and ability to travel, you must hold a passport and a valid drivers license

Nice To Haves

Aladdin
Aladdin Accounting
eFront
Aladdin Data Cloud
Snowflake
Business intelligence tools e.g. Power BI, Tableau and SQL
Definition and design of business and technical requirements
System design, selection and implementation support
Data mapping and conversion
Proof of concept
Quality assurance and testing
Business and IT process reengineering
Program/project management and implementation planning (PMO)
Management reporting enhancement
Enterprise application integration
Package Implementation
Reconciliation redesign or improvement

Responsibilities

Define overall project plan and lead multiple Aladdin implementation and enhancement projects end-to-end, from requirements through deployment and stabilization
Lead BlackRock migration activities including environment readiness, data migration, regression testing and coordinating with infrastructure teams
Define the Aladdin and Aladdin Data Cloud implementation roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that improve efficiency, data quality and compliance
Drive and oversee Aladdin platform configuration, compliance rule setup, workflows, and integration points across modules
Document BlackRock Client provided use-cases into a use-case catalogue
Review asset class workflows provided by BlackRock Client to support organization of asset class prioritization plans within the Project Plan
Assist BlackRock with creating/maintaining project key issue tracker to log & triage issues, liaising with Aladdin Client Transformation (ACT) teams to coordinate and drive for issue resolution
Assist BlackRock with Governance reports (including status meeting updates, upcoming period deliverables, past due project items, percent task completion, and identifying responsible parties)
Project Closure Report including BlackRock Client sign offs of the deliverables at the end of the project
Manage a team of business analysts, providing mentorship, technical guidance and professional development opportunities
Lead cross-functional communication between front, middle and back-office teams, translating complex technical topics into clear business language
Promote best practices in system configuration, change management and delivery methodology ensuring consistent project execution across teams
Stay current on Aladdin product enhancements, new modules and industry trends to proactively identify opportunities for system improvement and automation