Business Analyst (Futures & Derivatives Clearing - Front to Bank)
- Contract until 31 Dec 2025
The Client
- MNC Bank
The Opportunity
- Provide PM/ BA support for front to back control review in futures and derivatives clearing.
- Perform root cause analysis of control gaps in the operations team.
- Documentation of project artefacts, including, Target Operating Models, BRDs, User Stories, Test Cases
- Support Ops SME's in determining, identifying, and remediating the control gaps and documenting them.
- Deliver requirements, prepare testing plans if any and execute/oversee testing and development of associated project artifacts as required for deliverables.
- Day-to-day management of individual project responsibilities including milestone setting, task and actions management, co-ordination, and execution of plan within required timelines and to stakeholder quality expectations.
- Assess and manage risk and issues.
- Support and manage business ad-hoc queries and requirements.
- Foster and maintain relationships with business and technology stakeholders and support engagement in working groups, steercos, and workshops where required.
- Identify key project risks, whether stated or not, and manage to resolution or escalate accordingly.
- Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy and can operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
- Requires attention to detail when making judgments and recommendations based on the analysis of factual information.
Your Background
- Degree in Banking or equivalent with 6-10 years' experience in Data Analysis, tracing cash events through multiple systems front to back.
- Experience in delivering Operational process improvements and controls
- Track record as a Business Analyst/ Program manager within the Financial Services/Investment Banking industry.
- Knowledge of Markets Operations businesses/ functions is required. Knowledge & understanding of workflows and controls beneficial.
- Knowledge on Futures and Options products and Clearing industry is a plus.
- Strong communication skills to enable the capture of current state and target state processes, challenges and requirements
- Ability to work independently, multi-task, have great attention to detail and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative.
- Able to lead conference calls and produce meeting agendas, materials, and minutes.
- Have experience of leading User Acceptance Testing (UAT) projects, including overseeing the development & implementation of the UAT test plan, scripts and tools using the detailed functional requirements document.
- Must be extremely organized, motivated and a self-starter.
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task is key.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to clearly document findings and put together proposals for solutions.
- Excellent Excel, Powerpoint and process mapping skillsets required.
- Ability to work under tight contractual deadlines.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate to a range of audiences and facilitate discussions.
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