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Job Title: Aladdin Performance Business Operations & Reporting (PBOR) Consultant
Location: Remote within the U.S. (Must be available to travel to the Boston, MA area client site approximately twice per month)
Duration: 6 Months
Required Experience
• 2 4 years of experience in performance valuation, performance reporting, and fund/NAV oversight.
• Experience working with BlackRock Aladdin platform, specifically PBOR (Performance Business Operations & Reporting).
• Strong understanding of investment performance measurement methodologies and reporting processes.
• Ability to analyze business processes, document workflows, and perform gap assessments.
Responsibilities Business Process Review & Documentation
• Participate in and support Aladdin business process review (BPR) workshops.
• Track workshop progress, outcomes, action items, and open issues across business process areas.
• Document non-standard, upstream, and downstream workflows not covered by standard Aladdin BPRs.
• Maintain traceability between business requirements, workflows, and design decisions.
Target State Design Support
• Facilitate working sessions with stakeholders to validate target-state workflows, dependencies, and design considerations.
• Document business and design decisions and support review and approval processes.
• Ensure alignment between approved business requirements and future-state operating models.
Performance Measurement Analysis
• Document the inventory of current-state performance measurement functionality.
• Analyze and document sources of performance measurement data across the investment ecosystem.
• Identify and document consumers of performance data, including:
• Consuming systems
• Source systems
• Data flows and exchanges
• Integration methods
• Document performance calculation methodologies currently in use (e.g., Modified Dietz, IRR, and other performance measurement techniques).
Gap Assessment & Solution Analysis
• Perform current-state to target-state gap analysis based on future-state design documentation.
• Compare Aladdin PBOR capabilities with existing performance measurement processes and functionality.
• Identify functional gaps and assess associated business impacts.
• Assist stakeholders in evaluating solution options and potential workarounds to address identified gaps.
Deliverables
• Business Process Review (BPR) Status Tracker
• Enhanced Accounting Process Documentation
• Design Decisions Log
• Current-State Performance Measurement Inventory
• Gap Assessment and Recommendations Documentation
Qualifications
• Experience with investment operations, performance measurement, and performance reporting.
• Knowledge of fund accounting and NAV oversight processes.
• Strong documentation, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced project environment.