Director, IT, Solution Analyst (Banking/Fund of Funds)

Location: London, UK; hybrid working

Company

hirify.global provides asset servicing solutions to the global investment management industry, including fund administration, middle-office outsourcing, custody, foreign exchange, trustee services, depository, securities lending, and banking services.

What you will do

• Lead front-end analysis and act as the subject-matter expert for front-to-back investment services, including trade booking, pre-trade compliance, liquidity, position-keeping, reconciliation, shadow NAV, and valuation.
• Shape complex solutions by assessing feasibility, operating-model implications, data quality, readiness, and acceptance criteria.
• Configure investment data and portfolio accounting systems directly in test and sandbox environments, using configuration tools, APIs, SQL, scripting, and query-based logic through to production-ready results.
• Work across business and technical stakeholder groups, translating business intent into implementation requirements and technical constraints into practical business decisions.
• Own the relationship with technology provider product and implementation teams and represent the capability in senior governance forums.
• Identify delivery, data, downstream, operational-readiness, and regulatory risks; support testing, adoption, training, documentation, and roadmap development.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in investment operations, fund administration, or asset-servicing technology, with substantial exposure to trading, order management, position-keeping, or portfolio accounting systems.
• Hands-on configuration experience with investment data or portfolio accounting systems, including APIs, configuration tools, and data models.
• Strong SQL and database querying skills, plus working experience with a programming or scripting language such as Python.
• Strong knowledge of trade management, pre-trade compliance, liquidity, IBOR/ABOR, reconciliation, valuation, and complex asset classes including private credit, private equity, and structured products.
• Experience gathering and documenting requirements, modelling business processes, defining solution intent, and producing use cases, procedural guides, and scenarios.
• Expert proficiency in Excel and Word, with credibility in senior governance and cross-functional delivery-risk discussions.

Nice to have

• 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, tax lots, and corporate actions.
• Experience owning technology-provider relationships, implementing or migrating platforms, or leading organisation-wide training and enablement.
• Exposure to AI-assisted analysis and discovery tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working environment with a collaborative and inclusive workplace.
• Continuous learning and development opportunities.
• Work-life integration and exposure to a wide variety of investment-services work.
• Opportunities to contribute to innovation, knowledge sharing, and organisation-wide capability building.