Senior Consultant, Back Office

Are you a customer-first thinker with deep experience in portfolio accounting and reconciliation workflows? Do you thrive in implementation roles where you get to solve complex back-office challenges across the investment lifecycle? Are you excited to contribute to an innovative FinTech company transforming an industry from the ground up? If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team.

As a Senior Back Office Consultant at Ridgeline, you will lead end-to-end functional implementations of our enterprise cloud software for investment management customers. You’ll act as a strategic partner to clients—designing, configuring, and deploying workflows that span the full investment lifecycle, with a focus on back office transformation. Your consultative mindset, technical curiosity, and collaborative approach will be critical to driving successful customer go-lives and delivering lasting value. You will use cutting-edge technologies—including AI tools like ChatGPT—to improve implementation efficiency, enhance customer engagement, and accelerate adoption.

At Ridgeline, how we work matters as much as what we build. Ridgeliners act like owners, choose growth over comfort, and communicate with transparency. We assume positive intent, bias toward action, and bring solutions—not just problems. We celebrate wins, learn from setbacks, and thrive in a resilient, collaborative, high-performing culture. If this excites you, we’d love to meet you.

The impact you have:

• Engage customer stakeholders to design and deploy strategic workflows across the investment management lifecycle

• Configure, test, and optimize the Ridgeline platform, including data migration, reconciliation, market data, custom reports, and portfolio accounting

• Develop and apply deep product and industry expertise to ensure customers realize full value from Ridgeline’s software

• Collaborate with integration consultants to align system integrations with business needs

• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to identify bugs, suggest features, and translate enhancement requests into actionable product feedback

• Create scalable tools and templates for repeatable, cost-effective customer implementations

• Take ownership of customer problems, think creatively, and drive toward resolution

• Contribute to a learning-oriented, transparent team culture by sharing insights and teaching peers

• Evangelize Ridgeline’s value proposition to external stakeholders

• Provide mentorship to junior team members as the organization scales

• Travel domestically up to 20%

What we look for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, IT, or a related field

• 4+ years of investment management software implementation experience in a customer-facing role

• Deep knowledge of portfolio accounting, reconciliation, and investment reporting workflows

• Understanding of asset classes such as equities, fixed income, derivatives, and FX

• Experience with customer training, escalations, and solution delivery

• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities independently

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

• Curiosity and drive to learn new technologies quickly

• High proficiency in Excel and familiarity with Google Workspace

• Serious interest in having fun at work

Bonus:

• Experience leading enterprise SaaS implementations

• Familiarity with Agile principles and SDLC

• Exposure to tools like Slack, JIRA, Confluence, and Kantata

• Knowledge of APIs, AWS, and serverless technologies

• CFA designation

About RidgelineRidgeline is the industry cloud platform for investment management. It was founded by visionary tech entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday) to apply his successful formula of solving operational business challenges with bold innovation and human connectivity to the unique needs of the investment management industry.

Ridgeline started with a clean sheet of paper and a deep bench of experts bound by a set of core values and motivated to revolutionize an industry underserved by its current tech offerings. We are building a new, modern platform in the public cloud, purpose-built for the investment management industry and we are prioritizing security, agility, and usability to empower business like never before.

With a growing campus in Reno and offices in New York, Lake Tahoe, and the Bay Area, Ridgeline is proud to have built a fast-growing, people-first company that has been recognized by Fast Company as a “Best Workplace for Innovators,” by The Software Report as a “Top 100 Software Company,” and by Forbes as one of “America’s Best Startup Employers.”

Ridgeline is proud to be a community-minded, discrimination-free equal opportunity workplace. Ridgeline processes the information you submit in connection with your application in accordance with the Ridgeline Applicant Privacy Statement (https://www.ridgelineapps.com/legal/candidate-privacy-policy).

Compensation and Benefits

The cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $128,000 - $153,000 OTE. Final compensation amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amount listed above.

As an employee at Ridgeline, you’ll have many opportunities for advancement in your career and can make a true impact on the product.

In addition to the base salary, 100% of Ridgeline employees can participate in our Company Stock Plan subject to the applicable Stock Option Agreement. We also offer rich benefits that reflect the kind of organization we want to be: one in which our employees feel valued and are inspired to bring their best selves to work. These include unlimited vacation, educational and wellness reimbursements, and $0 cost employee insurance plans. Please check out our Careers page for a more comprehensive overview of our perks and benefits.

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