Business Analyst, Aladdin Transformation - Cash Reconciliations

We are seeking an experienced Cash Reconciliations Subject Matter Expert and Business Analyst with hands-on Aladdin platform expertise. This role sits at the intersection of operations and technology, driving process improvement, platform optimisation, and business change across cash and IBoR reconciliation workflows within client/provider implementation models.
You will act as the go-to reconciliations specialist across the full Aladdin lifecycle — from current state analysis and Target Operating Model design through configuration, parallel run, cutover, and post go-live BAU embedding — working across investment, middle office, operations, and technology teams to deliver control excellence on behalf of our clients.

Key Responsibilities

Operations & Subject Matter Expertise

• Act as the primary cash and IBoR reconciliations SME across Aladdin implementations, working within client/provider models to define the future state reconciliation function from current state through to go-live
• Lead daily custody reconciliations with prioritisation of high-value and aged items, specialising in complex break types including dividend, corporate actions, FX, and settlement cash
• Perform root cause analysis on recurring breaks — identifying upstream issues across Derivatives, Corporate Actions, and Trade Ops and driving resolution in collaboration with those teams
• Design and enforce break management frameworks — ageing thresholds, escalation paths, ownership matrices, and tolerance governance
• Configure Aladdin cash and IBoR reconciliation modules end to end — permissions, dashboards, exception management, tolerance thresholds, matching logic, and break workflow routing
• Use Aladdin reporting tools and live reconciliations data to build MI packs and operational controls metrics, producing break volume commentary for project and BAU teams
• Provide demonstrations of Aladdin functionality to operations and risk teams; explore the use of compliance rules within permission roles to support risk acceptance
• Manage custodian and prime broker data feed setup — SWIFT MT940/950, ISO 20022, and proprietary statement formats — troubleshooting feed failures and unmatched transactions with technology teams
• Build compensating controls and validation processes where system limitations require additional data integrity checks, documenting these within team procedures and control frameworks
• Escalate system problems and required enhancements to the platform provider on behalf of the client, maintaining visibility of resolution progress across the programme
• Ensure reconciliation processes and controls meet internal standards and relevant regulatory expectations (CASS, AIFMD, MiFID II)

Business Analysis & Change

• Support the design and implementation of reconciliation frameworks for clients transitioning into Aladdin — including middle office insourcing and migration to new global operating models
• Collaborate with operations teams on the TOM workstream — determining business requirements, progressing open deliverables, and troubleshooting as appropriate
• Identify key deliverables ahead of conversion, contributing to operational readiness logs and escalating issues to senior stakeholders on behalf of the team
• Create and manage test scripts — supporting the team through testing phases, capturing issues, and ensuring defects are tracked through to resolution within the project test workstream
• Test and define programme requirements during parallel run, raising business-critical issues as they arise
• Provide in-person support during cutover weekends, resolving conversion issues as they arise and ensuring critical items are escalated on the issues log
• Embed with BAU teams post go-live to support the investigations shift, helping teams resolve complex breaks and transition to steady state independently
• Produce team procedures, process flows, and control documentation to ensure accurate recording of future-state tasks

Stakeholder Engagement

• Attend senior governance forums to obtain risk acceptance sign-off, provide programme updates, and escalate material issues to leadership
• Maintain progress across concurrent workstreams — TOM, permissions, UAT, parallel run — through daily stand-ups and structured programme governance
• Act as the primary liaison between investment teams, middle office, operations, prime brokerage, custodians, compliance, and technology throughout the engagement
• Build Aladdin subject matter expertise within future-state client teams through group demos, Q&A sessions, and one-to-one training, including support for offshore and contractor populations

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years in cash or IBoR reconciliations within asset management, hedge funds, prime brokerage, or securities services
• Demonstrable end-to-end ownership of Aladdin reconciliation implementations — current state analysis through configuration, parallel run, cutover, and post go-live BAU support
• Strong Aladdin platform expertise across cash and IBoR rec modules — permissions, dashboard configuration, exception management, compliance rules, reporting tools, and break workflow design
• Deep knowledge of cash break types and root causes: custody versus internal ledger, IBoR breaks, FX differences, failed settlement cash, dividend and corporate action cash, and margin flows
• Experience collaborating across operational teams (Derivatives, Corporate Actions, Trade Ops) to understand cross-functional process impacts on reconciliations
• Hands-on experience producing MI packs and operational controls reporting from live reconciliations data
• Proven delivery track record — requirements gathering, TOM contribution, test script creation, defect management, operational readiness tracking, and cutover support
• Experience building compensating controls and validation processes to address system gaps ahead of go-live
• Experience with cash management and reconciliation platforms such as Cashmaster, Electra, Intellimatch, AutoRek, or TLM — and familiarity with how these interact with or are displaced by Aladdin
• Experience training future-state and BAU teams on Aladdin reconciliations and operations best practice
• Solid understanding of SWIFT messaging (MT940/950, ISO 20022) and the downstream cash impact of settlements, corporate actions, and FX
• Strong Excel skills; SQL or Python a plus for break data analysis