Business Analyst, IFRS Projects
The role is for a Business Analyst to work within the Financial Control Change Managementarea supporting the firm`s Accounting initiatives project, in particular the implementation phase of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) effective in 2012 and 2013.
The primary objective of the business analyst will be to work on business change projects within Financial Control. Working closely with Finance staff, IT and other stakeholders (e.g. Credit, Regulatory, Tax) the analyst will be expected to:
- Proactively follow up issues and actions with business and IT stakeholders and ensure that the project manager is kept informed.
- Work with users to document and establish target business process compliant with new accounting standards.
- Document existing and target business processes within Financial Control, including holding workshops with stakeholders to extract information.
- Identify process improvement opportunities and assist users in transition to new business processes.
- Work with business - IT stakeholders to analyse issues and propose solutions.
- Identify issues and actions and ensure they are documented in the log.
- Document business requirements for IT development required, including liaising with IT analysts to ensure business requirements are understood.
- Produce test plans and test scripts to enable thorough user acceptance testing of the IT and process changes.
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Essential:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to take ownership and responsibility, proactively managing work through to completion, within deadlines
- Experience of writing clear and comprehensive business requirements which can be passed to the IT team for build
- Experience of documenting business processes and working on projects involving significant process changes
- Experience of writing and executing test scripts and of managing the UAT phase of a project
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, including the ability to identify all options and make a recommendation on the best option for a particular situation
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
Preferred:
- Ability to take on wider project management responsibilities over time
- Investment banking experience, product knowledge, prior knowledge - experience of Finance line roles - IFRS projects
- Accountancy qualification
- Understanding of industry best practice business analysis methodologies.
Business Analyst, IFRS Projects project life-cycle experts required to apply for Canary Wharf based Investment Banking client`s position. Candidates ideally to come from IB, Banking, Financial Services and be Qualified Accountant with IFRS knowledge
- £45,000 to £60,000 base salary for the right candidates
- Outstanding Company Benefits Package in cash
- Competitive Bonus Scheme
Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents.
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