Aladdin Performance Business Operations & Reporting (PBOR) Consultant

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• 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.