Lead Business Execution Consultant - BFSI

Department Overview:

The BDS (Broker dealer services) business team is responsible for trade processing, settlements, fail clean up and processing corporate actions. They also responsible for book keeping of holdings and reconcile the cash and positions in the clients and depot accounts. The team provides the support to the projects to enable the delivery model for the Bank that would help us service our customers faster. The support includes project management, UAT co-ordination and BA activities.

About the Role:

This position will focus on delivering the Product & Strategic Delivery change portfolio aligned with Broker dealer operations from I&P. The role will support onshore Product & Strategic Delivery Team in delivery of their change projects.

In this role, you will:

- Lead cross functional teams to strategize, plan, and execute a variety of programs, services and initiatives

- Drive accountability for assigned initiatives, limit risk exposure, and create efficiencies as appropriate

- Review strategic approaches and effectiveness of support function and business performance

- Perform assessments through fact finding and data requiring creative approaches to solving complex issues, and develop appropriate solutions or recommendations

- Make decisions in highly complex and multifaceted situations requiring solid understanding of business group's functional area or products, facilitate decision making and issue resolution, and support implementation of developed solutions and plans

- Collaborate and consult with members of the Business Execution team and team leaders to drive strategic initiatives

- Influence, guide and lead less experienced Strategy and Execution staff within the group

Responsibilities:

- Partner & collaborate with stakeholders located both locally & globally in achieving shared business objectives & goals.

- Maintain routines to track progress against published project deliverable timelines

- Leverage relationships with Operations, Technology and QA to schedule change delivery

- Support Onshore P&SD to facilitate routine initiative update calls

- Should be able to support the shift from 3:30 pm IST to 12:30 am IST.

- Coordination and ownership of the scheduled UAT releases

- Assist with documentation of changes, as applicable

- Generate and produce meaningful reports, including weekly, monthly, and ad hoc reporting requests

- Communicating issues identified and delivering reports in a timely manner to recipients

Essential Qualifications

- 10+ years' of financial services experience with good communication skills.

- Minimum 6+ years of Business Analyst experience in capital markets space.

- Strong in end to end project management in agile methodology.

- Strong in documentation, data analysis, and metrics reporting experience.

- Experience processing securities transactions on the Broadridge platform in any capacity (Settlements, Asset Servicing, etc)

- Experience settling Buy / Sell, Repo and/or Stock Borrow / Loan Transactions at DTCC

- Experience setting up and maintaining securities data on Broadridge

- Experience analyzing transaction breaks on the Broadridge platform

- Experience on Global One, Loanet or GSF

- Experience building Client accounts - Wire / securities settlements

- Experience in Funding Operations and related systems / applications

- Experience settling international securities at ClearStream using Broadridge Gloss platform.

- The ability to communicate effectively with superiors and colleagues

- Advanced Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint) skills

- Ability to work in a fast paced deadline driven environment

- Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills

- Candidate should have experience in writing BRD's,user stories, test cases and performing UAT.

- Hands on experience in business and risk analysis space.

Desired Qualifications:

- Experience/knowledge of equity and fixed income transaction lifecycle.

- Graduate degree or higher / MBA (Preferred)

- Experience at a Strategy Consulting firm

- Knowledge in Agile/SDLC Methodologies

- Experience working in international environment