Value Stream Business Consultant - Front Office

Value Stream Business Consultant – Front Office (Investment Management Lifecycle) 

WHAT MAKE US, US. 

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!  

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered. 

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Why this role is important to us  

The Value Stream Business Consultant – Front Office is an individual contributor embedded in the SimCorp One Value Stream.
Main task: Design, build, and maintain Front Office standards and configurations for client implementation projects. This is not just advisory—it is hands-on configuration work to create robust, reusable standards that accelerate onboarding and ensure consistency across engagements.
The consultant will take leadership in continuously improving these standards, applying lean principles and feedback loops to maximize efficiency and effectiveness.
Additionally, this person will bring client implementation asks to the Standards Guild for visibility and prioritization, ensuring transparency and alignment with strategic goals.
You will think across the investment management lifecycle (Select → Onboard → Operate), align ways of working to business agility principles, and turn standards into actionable, scalable frameworks adopted across teams

What you will be responsible for   

• Take full ownership of designing and implementing reusable, fit-to-standard configurations for Front Office processes within SimCorp One.
• Champion adoption of the Front Office Business Standards Kit as the default across engagements.
• Treat standards as living products—versioned, documented, and distributed with clear change management.
• Collaborate with architects and stakeholders to ensure scalable, efficient onboarding aligned with value stream standards.
• Contribute business content to demo environments to accelerate adoption.
• Design for operational readiness from day one—co-develop runbooks and monitoring frameworks.
• Use value-stream metrics and VMO dashboards to identify bottlenecks and codify improvements.
• Lead continuous improvement of standards for efficiency and effectiveness.
• Bring client implementation asks to the Standards Guild for visibility and prioritization.
• Coach teams on lean flow, cadence, and synchronization.
• Leverage analytics to measure and improve standards consistently.

• Owning Front Office standard scope and reuse across multiple, parallel client engagements.
• Sequencing the FO critical path for onboarding with Programme/Project Managers and Onboarding Managers.
• Ensuring operate-readiness prior to cutover and a clean handover into run.
• Driving continuous improvement and feeding learnings back into the standard artefacts library.
• Coordinating with Standards Guild and VMO to align governance and prioritization.

• Hands-on configuration of Front Office standards in alignment with SimCorp One and value stream principles.
• Embed standards into onboarding playbooks and CI/CD pipelines; ensure they are consumable, observable, versioned, and auditable.
• Implement automated business process validation and regression testing aligned with standard frameworks.
• Apply Git and DevOps best practices for version control and change management of business artefacts.
• Leverage telemetry and dashboards to monitor adoption, flow efficiency, and quality signals.
• Collaborate with architects to ensure solution designs leverage existing standards and remain aligned with value stream principles.

What we value  

Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be proficient in several of the following skills and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest.  

• Proficiency in technical configuration and the ability to apply standards and best practices in a business context.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, particularly when working with cross-functional teams such as Standards Guild, VMO, and architects.
• Adaptability and a willingness to learn new skills and technologies, demonstrating an openness to continuous professional development.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities, exemplified by implementing automated business process validation and leveraging telemetry for monitoring and quality improvement.
• A mindset focused on contributing to team goals and thriving in a dynamic environment, with an emphasis on value creation and process improvement.

Benefits   

Attractive compensation, a bonus program, and a retirement plan are fundamental components of any employment agreement. However, in SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a healthy work-life balance and opportunities for professional development: there is never just one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.    

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Next steps     

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

For any questions you are welcome to contact Azeta GUITI Talent Acquisition Partner. If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.        

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.   

Who we are   

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 4,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds.  

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients. 

SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.

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