Senior Back Office Migration & Transformation Specialist - Fixed-term/Freelance

Why apply ?

🌍 You will be working for a large and international company offering audit, tax and advisory services.

💡 Our customer has reprensentation in more than 120 offices worldwide. They are recognized as professional and reliable in its sector.

💬 Join a major back-office migration project within a leading asset management environment.

About the offer

📝 Fixed-term contract/ Freelance

🏠 Location : Luxembourg Kirchberg

📲 Top 3 Key competencies :

- Back Office Operations & Fund Industry
- Migration & Target Operating Model
- Asset Management / Fund Operations

About our client

Sector : Service provider in tax, audit and advisory

Values : Innovation | Excellence | Solution driven

Employees : Worldwide 50,000 +

Your missions

As a Senior Back Office Migration & Transformation Specialist, you will play a key role in the successful migration and transformation of Back Office activities.

You will:

- Contribute to the design and implementation of the target operating model for Back Office activities.
- Analyse existing processes, operating models and workflows and identify opportunities for standardisation and optimisation.
- Lead and coordinate the migration of Back Office activities towards the target environment.
- Define and coordinate migration activities, including data, processes, controls and operational readiness.
- Work closely with Fund Operations, Fund Accounting, Middle Office, IT and other internal stakeholders throughout the migration.
- Coordinate testing, validation and reconciliation activities to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the migration.
- Identify, investigate and resolve operational issues and discrepancies during migration and parallel-run phases.
- Support the transition from the legacy environment to the new operating model and ensure a smooth stabilisation phase.
- Monitor progress, risks, dependencies and key deliverables and provide regular updates to stakeholders.
- Contribute to process documentation, procedures and knowledge transfer.
- Act as a senior point of reference for operational teams and support less experienced colleagues when required.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, efficiency and automation following the migration.

Your ideal profile

- You have 10+ years of experience in Asset Management, Asset Servicing, Fund Administration, Fund Operations, Back Office or the investment fund industry.
- You have a strong understanding of the Luxembourg fund industry and the key processes involved in fund operations.
- You have solid knowledge of Back Office activities, ideally within an Asset Management or Fund Services environment.
- You have proven experience in migration, transformation or operating model projects.
- You have experience designing or implementing a Target Operating Model (TOM).
- You are comfortable working across Front, Middle and Back Office functions and understand their interactions.
- Experience with fund migrations, fund mergers, platform migrations or major operational transformations is a strong asset.
- You have a good understanding of operational controls, reconciliations, data quality and testing.
- You are able to work with both business and IT stakeholders and translate operational requirements into concrete actions.
- You are structured, analytical and comfortable managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
- You have strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- You are fluent in English and French.
- You are available to work on-site in Luxembourg.

A candidate experience with Source Up, it’s …

- Carry out a skills assessment (soft skills and technical skills) in order to better define your professional project
- Access to your test results to guide you to your best career choices
- Interview coaching session before the client meeting
- Consistent and fair recruitment process with respect, transparency and trust