Director, IT, Solution Analyst - Banking/Fund of Funds

About the role

MUFG Investor Services, which provides asset servicing solutions to the global investment management industry, is hiring a Director, IT, Solution Analyst in London. The role sits in Tech Solutions, the technology organisation reporting to the CTO, and acts as a specialist analytical and subject-matter expert for the Fund Trading, BPO & Debt Services domain, while remaining deployable across domains. It covers front-to-back investment services, from trade booking and pre-trade compliance through to valuation.

Key responsibilities

• Act as domain SME and analytical lead for front-to-back investment services, including trade booking, pre-trade compliance, cash flow forecasting and liquidity, position-keeping, reconciliation and valuation.
• Conduct front-end analysis of complex work, going directly to the data and systems using SQL and AI tooling.
• Own the configuration of investment data systems, including scripting and query-based logic, in test and sandbox environments until production-ready.
• Define and document business requirements, work with Solution Owners, and translate technical constraints back to business stakeholders and business intent to engineers.
• Represent the capability to technology providers and act as senior point of contact at governance forums.
• Identify delivery risks, partner with Integration Quality Engineers on test scenarios, and support adoption readiness through training, communications and data clean-up.
• Build training material, run engagement forums, and feed roadmap shaping with reusable patterns and product documentation.

Required profile

• 10+ years of experience in investment operations, fund administration or asset-servicing technology, with exposure to trading, order management, position-keeping or portfolio accounting systems.
• Hands-on configuration experience in investment data or portfolio accounting systems, via APIs, configuration tools and data models.
• Strong SQL and database querying skills, and working exposure to at least one programming or scripting language such as Python.
• Strong knowledge of order and trade management, pre-trade compliance, cash flow forecasting, liquidity management, IBOR/ABOR, reconciliation and valuation, including private credit, private equity and structured products.
• Ability to gather, analyse and document business requirements, model processes and produce analytical artefacts such as use cases and procedural guides.
• Expert proficiency in Excel and Word.

Preferred

• Experience delivering front-to-back investment services through a technology-enabled operating model.
• Familiarity with FIX, SWIFT or FpML, and core accounting mechanics such as cost basis, P&L and tax lots.
• Experience owning a technology provider relationship, creating training material, or running platform implementation, configuration or migration projects.