Senior Director, Head of Investment Accounting Value Team

What makes Us, Us
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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 for us
As a global leader in our space, SimCorp is on a journey to transform from a traditional enterprise software company into a technology-enabled services business, while sustaining our track record of double-digit, highly profitable growth. To further support and drive this journey, we are transitioning to a horizontal delivery model, aligned to client process outcomes. We are now recruiting for a Head of IAS (Investment Accounting Service) Value Team to manage the teams that will build, deliver and maintain the Investment Accounting Standard Solution, upon which our SimCorp Managed Business Services team will deliver to our end clients.

The Value Stream area is comprised of several individual Value Teams that collectively deliver the outcome needed to our SimCorp One clients. The individual Value Teams will be comprised of all the resources, skills and capabilities required to plan, code/configure, build, test, release, deploy, operate and monitor our solutions.

As Head of IAS Value Team , you will be a key member of the Operations organization’s Leadership Team, reporting directly to the Head of Business Services Value Stream.

What you will be responsible for

• Launch the IAS Value Team including identification of required outcome teams and the key roles and be a Change Leader for the transformation to IAS Value Team and alignment of operating model with key stakeholders.

• Lead the team to ensure that the IAS Value Team delivers maximum value to its internal and external customers while maintaining operational efficiency and high level of engagement.

• Drive the effort to ensure that the IAS Value Team will build and maintain a SimCorp One standard solution required to run the IAS Service

• Identify and address inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement within the IAS Value Team to enhance overall performance and efficiency, in collaboration with the Value Stream Management Office.

• Plan, execute, and manage the IAS Value Team, ensuring they align with business objectives and strategic goals and deliver highly standardized solutions in alignment with overall strategy and roadmap of the Business Services Value Stream.

• Collaborate with other Value Team leads in Business Services Value Stream to ensure alignment and consistency in operational delivery and meet shared goals

• Strategically engage, manage, and persuade key stakeholders, managing expectations, communicating progress, ensuring progress and addressing concerns

• Work collaboratively with SimCorp Managed Business Services, Product Management, and other relevant functions to ensure alignment for repeatable standardized solutions

• Manage resources (people, budget, time) effectively to ensure outcomes are delivered on time and within budget and ultimately to reduce onboarding duration and effort, and to create a more efficient run operation

• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks that could impact the IAS Value Team performance or project delivery.

What we value

• 10+ years of experience delivering services to clients who consume mission-critical, enterprise software
• Previous experience with SimCorp Dimension is required
  
• A history of innovation within the services delivered and the service delivery model, including notable experience with implementing and operating horizontal, DevOps aligned delivery models
• People Leadership experience and proven track record of leading and developing high-performing teams
• Business knowledge within Investment Accounting Services and understanding of client business processes
• Established experience in collaborating with Product Development, Operations, Consulting and Commercial teams
• Solid understanding of the technology industry and the fundamentals of a SaaS business
• Well-developed analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with ability to be practically engaged and focus on the details without losing sight of the bigger picture, especially within optimization and organizational design
• Skilled in analyzing processes with a particular focus on automation and continuous optimization.
• Ability to mobilize stakeholders and form trusting relationships in a broad organizational context
• Great collaborative skills, highly motivated colleague who works well with others and is result-oriented.

Benefits
Attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a good work and life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid model. And opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.

For Poland Location
Compensation ranges are being disclosed at the initial stage of candidate engagement.

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For Toronto Location
This is an active, existing vacancy. The salary range for this position is CAD 192 000 – 242 000. Base pay may vary based on factors such as years of experience, skills and qualifications.

Our hiring process uses AI-enabled tools to support the screening and assessment of applications. All applicants are still reviewed by a skilled recruitment team. AI does not make hiring decisions. Human reviewers, who are trained to understand the limitations, potential risks, and possible biases associated with AI tools, evaluate all applications and AI-assisted results before any decision is made.

If you have questions about how your information is processed in detail, feel free to contact us.

Next Step
Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. 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.

Please note: Only applications sent through our system will be processed.
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.

SimCorp Canada welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Candidates who require accommodation during the recruitment process should contact the People & Culture team at Se e-mailadresse på jobbank.dk .

Who We Are
SimCorp is a leading provider of investment management solutions to the world’s largest asset managers, fund managers, asset servicers, pension and insurance funds, wealth managers, banks and sovereign wealth funds.

Here you will get to work with skilled and collaborative colleagues. We are more than 4 000 employees from 50+ nationalities working at supporting our 200+ clients across the globe.

We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view, together we are building a culture where difference is valued. You will be part of a thriving team and a company that continues to grow, offering a lot of stimulating and interesting opportunities.

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