The Futures & Derivatives Clearing BA role is responsible to support a MNC bank's Futures & Derivatives team with the following Responsibilities:
- Provide PM/ BA support to lead for a Regulatory Reporting stream to support transition to strategic end state model, incl requirements, design, test definition, control definition, training, and production readiness.
- Documentation of project artefacts, including, Target Operating Models, BRDs, User Stories, Test Cases
- 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.
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding the company, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
Must Have Skills :
- SME
- Futures & Derivative, Equity, Corporate Action
- Project Management/Business Analysis
- Stakeholder Management
- User Acceptance Testing
- Prefer Domain - Financial Services/Investment Banking industry
Qualifications/ Skills:
- 6-10 years’ experience
- 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, Power-point and process mapping skillsets required.
- Ability to work in fast paced environment under tight contractual deadlines.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate to a range of audiences and facilitate discussions.
- Willingness to ask questions, challenge the process and seek out answers.
The work location will be in the CBP.
