Senior Manager

Alpha Group is a leading global consultancy to the financial services industry. Founded in 2003, Alpha has spent over 20 years bringing together specialist, sector-focused strategy, management consulting, and technology expertise to support the entire client transformation lifecycle. Having partnered with more than 1,200 clients worldwide across the asset and wealth management, alternatives, and insurance industries, Alpha is a trusted advisor for complex change programs.

We now have over 1,180 consultants working with clients across North America, the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC. In 2024, in recognition of our successful track record and strong growth prospects, Alpha was acquired by Bridgepoint, one of the world's leading quoted private asset growth investors.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Many of our team have built long and fulfilling careers with us, often staying for over a decade. Alpha offers a genuinely rewarding place to work: a meritocratic environment where your career can flourish, and a welcoming culture where you can be yourself, connect with others, and thrive.

As we look to the future, we’re excited to be looking for new Alpha colleagues—individuals who are collaborative, innovative, and ambitious. We hope you will join us and help shape the next chapter of our growth journey.

At Alpha FMC, you will be pivotal in leading engagements to identify and implement solutions for a range of issues facing asset and wealth managers. Over the course of each project, you will collect and analyze data, prepare and test hypotheses, and present recommendations to the client to solve their unique business and technology challenges.

As a Senior Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Managing project execution and a team of consultants ensuring the successful delivery of client engagements, including planning the day-to-day work of the team, facilitating client interviews and workshops, structuring client deliverables, and ensuring Alpha's standards for quality are met
• Leading end-to-end front-/middle-/back-office implementation engagements, including current-state assessment, requirements gathering, workflow design, configuration and integration oversight, test planning and execution, and training and procedure documentation
• Owning project governance, including regular status meetings, task and budget tracking, proactive communication with clients, and handover of business and technical workflows to client teams upon engagement completion
• Creating a culture of continuous learning for the team and clients, and actively mentoring team members - including defining and coaching junior peers in implementation best practices such as SDLC, migration strategy, and QA/testing standards
• Supporting Alpha FMC's business development by driving the creation of client proposals, authoring thought leadership, and maintaining strong relationships with past and prospective clients
• Contributing to the wider Alpha community by making innovative and proactive contributions to one or more of Alpha's business management or practice areas
• Maintaining a broad understanding of the challenges facing the Asset and Wealth Management industry and acting as an expert in at least one area in demand by clients

• 7+ years of consulting and/or industry experience within Asset and Wealth Management, gained through a leading consulting firm or a transformation, strategy, implementation, or program management role at an Asset Owner, Asset Manager, Wealth Manager, or investment technology provider.
• Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise investment platform implementations, with deep knowledge of the full implementation lifecycle including strategy, operating model design, business process transformation, solution architecture, vendor selection, configuration, testing, deployment, organizational change management, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Hands-on implementation experience with one or more leading investment management platforms is required, with expertise in platforms such as SimCorp One, BlackRock Aladdin, Charles River Investment Management Solution (IMS), Bloomberg AIM, or other enterprise investment management platforms. Experience working directly with software vendors or within strategic vendor partnerships is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of front office and middle office requirements/workflows with the ability to advise clients across the end-to-end investment lifecycle including portfolio management, trading, compliance, investment operations, performance, risk, investment data, and reporting.
• Broad asset class knowledge spanning both traditional and alternative investments, including equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, derivatives, private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds, and multi-asset portfolios.
• Proven experience leading large-scale business and technology transformation programs, managing cross-functional workstreams, executive stakeholders, implementation partners, and third-party vendors while delivering complex, multi-year strategic initiatives.
• Exceptional program and project management capabilities, including governance design, RAID management, executive reporting, financial management, dependency management, issue resolution, and proactive escalation of risks to executive sponsors when required.
• Strong organizational change management experience, including stakeholder engagement, communications, business readiness, training strategy, operating model transition, and adoption planning to ensure successful business outcomes.
• Experience managing and developing consulting teams, including coaching, mentoring, quality assurance, workload management, and providing day-to-day leadership for junior consultants, business analysts, and implementation specialists.
• Deep understanding of investment operating models and data architecture, with experience across areas such as Investment Book of Record (IBOR), Accounting Book of Record (ABOR), security master, market data, risk analytics, reference data, investment data management, reconciliation, reporting, and enterprise data platforms.
• Subject matter expertise across multiple investment domains, such as the following:
• Portfolio Management
• Trading & Order Management
• Investment Operations
• Investment Data Management
• Investment Accounting
• Performance Measurement & Attribution
• Risk & Analytics
• Compliance & Regulatory Reporting
• Alternative Investments
• Reconciliations (Position, Transaction and Cash)
• Investment Data Warehousing & Reporting
• Enterprise Investment Platforms
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to facilitate workshops, influence senior client executives, present recommendations to steering committees, and build trusted relationships across business and technology organizations.
• Demonstrated leadership, problem solving, and decision making skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, resolve complex delivery challenges, and drive successful client outcomes in fast-paced transformation environments.

At Alpha, diversity, equity and inclusion are critical to our success. Our priorities show a focus on fostering an inclusive, equitable workplace where individuals are treated fairly regardless of gender or background. We welcome applications from disabled people and are committed to making our recruitment process and workplace accessible and inclusive for everyone.