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Role Overview
We are looking to connect with experienced Investment Operations & Middle Office Transformation Specialists for our talent pool as we anticipate future project demand across the UK Wealth Management, Asset Management, Investment Platform, Private Banking and broader Financial Services sectors.
This is not an active role. We are proactively building a network of independent consultants and contractors with specialist investment-operations, middle-office and transformation experience so we can respond quickly as new client projects come to market.
We are particularly interested in professionals who can support operating-model transformation, process optimisation, platform migrations, regulatory change and large-scale business-transformation programmes.
What You May Support
- Lead investment-operations transformation and optimisation initiatives.
- Design and implement target operating models across front, middle and back-office functions.
- Improve trade lifecycle, settlements, reconciliations and investment-administration processes.
- Support platform implementation, migration and business-readiness activities.
- Deliver process-automation and operational-efficiency programmes.
- Define controls, governance frameworks and operational-risk procedures.
- Support client onboarding, account transfers and asset migration initiatives.
- Coordinate business change, testing and operational-readiness activities.
- Deliver regulatory and compliance-driven transformation programmes.
- Support outsourcing, vendor-management and service-transition initiatives.
- Drive operational resilience and process-improvement programmes.
- Work closely with investment, operations, technology, risk and product teams.
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What We Are Looking For
- Investment Operations Manager
- Middle Office Consultant
- Operations Transformation Lead
- Operations Manager
- Business Change Consultant
- Investment Administration Specialist
- Operations Business Analyst
- Process Improvement Consultant
- Target Operating Model Consultant
- Operational Excellence Lead
Strong experience in one or more of:
- Investment operations.
- Trade lifecycle management.
- Settlements and custody operations.
- Reconciliations and controls.
- Investment administration.
- Wealth and asset-management platforms.
- Operating-model design.
- Process optimisation and automation.
- Regulatory change delivery.
- Business transformation programmes.
- Vendor and third-party management.
- Operational resilience and governance.
Experience supporting complex transformation initiatives within wealth management, asset management, investment platforms, pensions or private-banking environments.
Strong stakeholder-management, communication and problem-solving capabilities.
Experience working across multidisciplinary business, operations and technology teams.
Independent consulting, contracting or project-based experience is advantageous.
Preferred Background
We are particularly interested in professionals who have worked on:


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- Investment-platform implementation and migration programmes.
- Asset-management and wealth-management operating-model transformation.
- Custody, settlements and post-trade transformation initiatives.
- Client onboarding and transfer programmes.
- Middle-office modernisation and process-automation projects.
- Regulatory, compliance and risk-driven change programmes.
- Data migration, reconciliation and operational-readiness activities.
- Operating-model simplification and cost-optimisation initiatives.
- Outsourcing, vendor-transition and service-transformation programmes.
- Operational-resilience and control-enhancement initiatives.
Why Join Our Talent Pool
You will be well positioned to hear about future project opportunities with leading Wealth Managers, Asset Managers, Investment Platforms, Private Banks, FinTechs and Specialist Consulting Firms across the UK.
We anticipate continued demand for professionals who combine deep investment-operations expertise with practical transformation-delivery experience, particularly across platform migration, operational efficiency, automation and regulatory change.
Whether you are an independent consultant, contractor, operations leader, middle-office specialist or transformation professional, we would love to connect.
👉 If your experience aligns with the above, register your interest to be considered for future UK Investment Operations & Middle Office Transformation projects.
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