Overview
Role description
The candidate will be a member of the international change team responsible for delivery and support of core transformation initiatives. Strong skills in business requirements & product coverage analysis, data mapping across platforms, support solution design and technical implementation deliverables. The ability to help prototype, visualise, re-engineer and automate processes in cross functional teams would be key.
The candidate must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and be able to work in a dynamic environment to rapidly produce robust solutions. The candidate will have to liaise with key stakeholders across Finance, Middle-Office, Risk and Technology, have the ability to work independently to see initiatives through from inception to delivery and have a strong attention to detail.
Key objectives critical to success
– Strong analytical and communication skills with the initiative to identify and solve problems
– Ability to define requirements, solutions, scope and work across end-to-end implementation lifecycle
– Ability to proactively reengineer processes and deliver digital solutions to improve department efficiency
– Demonstrate confidence in engaging and presenting complex solutions to senior individuals
– Manage relationships with stakeholders in Finance, Risk and Technology functions across all regions
Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required
– Financial services experience, ideally in a transformational, middle office, collateral, product control role
– Good understanding of data preparation, modelling and visual data delivery through dashboards
– Experience with implementing data management capability centralisation of data stores, data sourcing, data quality and controls definition and simplification
– An understanding of profiling current state, define future state, consolidate data insights and present these succinctly to senior stakeholders
– Ability to be proactive and use initiative to improve and reengineer processes and systems and help support legacy solutions e.g. a centralised adjustment mechanism and op model
– Strong communication skills to accurately elicit requirements from stakeholders, present project updates to senior management and provide training to project end users
– Ability to take ownership of end-to-end project management from inception to delivery.
– Proficient in effectively documenting complex business and technical requirements and workflows using a variety of tools and ability to present these to business and technology stakeholders
– Experience of Agile process and tools, e.g. JIRA, Confluence etc
– Co-ordinate UAT testing for new process implementation with an ability to identify risks involved and communicate with respective teams for resolution
– Willingness to help others across the department in improving their digital skills through training sessions or workshops
Desirable skills and experience
– Understanding of collateral management, P&L reporting, balance sheet substantiation, and trade lifecycle controls
– Some experience of using digital tools would be beneficial that would support key platform data migrations e.g. Python, Alteryx, VBA
– Basic understanding of equities, fixed income and derivatives products