Senior Business Analyst - Investment Banking

Position Description:

- The lead Business Analyst will be representing Operational business stakeholders- interest in ensuring project scope and objectives are clearly understood.

- This will be pivotal in identifying comprehensive operational project requirements across all post trade processing departments.

- It's the business analyst's role to ensure operational business requirements are documented in an articulate and unambiguous manner to facilitate user sign off and a smooth transition to IT counterparts for functional solutioning.

- Projects will vary from full front to back implementations, to focused departmental re-engineering across a variety of financial products such as equity, FICC, and potentially other derivatives products.

- Involvement in other project best practices such as helping assess and defining operational control models will also be expected.

This is a hand's on role where communication, stakeholder engagement and working to tight deadlines will be instrumental in pursuing a successful career within the firm.

Job Responsibilities : 

- Manage user engagement across all regional (possibly global) operational departments.

- Conduct whiteboard sessions and other effective means to garner holistic, cohesive user requirements.

- Ensure project objectives and scope are clearly understood and documented by all operational functions.

- Documentation of - As Is- vs - To Be process flows.

- Assess and document user requirements at a level of quality that facilitates user sign off.

- Participate in IT engagement, ensuring user requirements are understood.

- Facilitate formal handover of user requirements allowing technology teams to produce functional specifications

- Participate in operational control model discussions

- Contribute ideas as to how the process of requirements gathering can be optimized.

- Develop and maintain working relationships with key stakeholders across IT & operations.

- Ensure targeted milestone dates are met.

Key Stakeholders : 

Internal:

- Global Operational teams

- IT Technology teams

- Project Delivery Management team

- Project Working Group committees

- Project sponsors

- Project governance committees

- Other Key Stakeholders

External:

- System Vendors

- Agent / Custodian banks

Skills and Experience : 

- 8 to 13 years of business analysis experience from an Investment banking background

- Solid understanding of front to back equity processes

- Prior exposure to a wide range of financial instruments

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Previous experience in presenting to senior key stakeholders

- Ability to illustrate and present workflows

- Have a solid understanding in most facets of operational processing such as trade capture, settlement, asset servicing, reconciliations and reference data.

- Collaborate with key stakeholders and colleagues on tasks and initiatives in an assertive and proactive manner