Business Analyst – Product Control – IPV recruitment
The Role
The role will specifically focus on the delivery of an improved IPV infrastructure for Product Control. It will deliver a solution for the calculation, analysis and reporting of price testing results for CS derivative businesses. This is an extremely high profile project within Product Control which is the focus of senior management, and external regulators (FED and FSA).
The IPV program delivers the ability for Product Control to indepently revalue trading positions leveraging Front Office risk management systems, independent market data and reporting via the core Finance architecture. The program will cover businesses trading Equity,Credit, FX, Interest Rate and commodity derivative products.
As a Senior Business Analyst in the applicant will be required to
- Provide support to the program director, including status reporting, management information and basis program management
- Direct a global team of 8 business analysts to support the project deliveries
- Apply their expert knowledge to support project delivery and process improvement initiatives
- Provide expertise and specialist knowledge in support of all stages of a program/project where such knowledge is required
- These individuals should have a deep knowledge of business processes and/or products and their supporting systems (obtained from having held a line position or from significant project experience within their specialist area).
- Lead and facilitate communications between a number of teams including Product Control users, CFO Change and PCIT Analysts from within the SPARTA team, PC Data Warehouse and other teams as required.
- Provide developers, testers with detailed business requirements, which address the business objectives of the project.
- Collaborate with other projects in order to minimize re-work.
Specific Tasks/Responsibilities
- Act as the overall lead for the analysis of a major phase of the IPV Programme
- Identify and define analysis deliverables for the phase
- Lead other business analysts as required
- Collaborate with business counterparts to understand and document business processes and data structures.
- Understand and document current application flows within the architecture.
- Identify and document changes to the application flows that will be necessary to support business requirements upstream and downstream of the SPARTA IPV application
- Produce Business and Functional requirements following the structured approach that is being followed by the project.
- Present Specifications to the Component Development Teams and field queries raised by them
- Assist with scope definition if full requirement set cannot be delivered within a given timeframe.
- Generate, review and provide input into the test scripts and test cases for testing phases
- Understand the deliverables from a structured plan perspective and a data content and intent perspective
- Identify risks and issues and manage the mitigation of these items
- Document existing flows and future architectures
- Analyze changes to existing systems
- Troubleshoot issues within the lifecycle of a project and manage change
- Have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal are a must
- Have experience in investment banking and accounting (desirable)
- Work to improve the analysis processes within the project
Divisional/Departmental Overview
CFO Change has overall responsibility defining and managing regional and global change across business process, data and technology for Finance.
Specifically, CFO Change is responsible for:
- Design and implementation of the Financial Systems Initiative (FSI) – a program of transformation projects across Finance spanning a 5 year horizon.
- Ensuring that Finance projects are managed in a consistent manner. CFO Change is typically responsible for business analysis, all areas of project management and providing strategic guidance for data, technology and business process related design.
- Typically working as a point of contact between the line and IT on a particular project, CFO Change acts as a facilitator for issue resolution to enable projects to advance.
- Ensuring that the business process and technical architecture is appropriately aligned to business needs.
- Ensuring that projects are effectively prioritised across the department and resources (both CFO Change and IT) are allocated accordingly.
- Delivering on the both regional and global changes impacting the client groups.
Qualifications
TO QUALIFY, YOU MUST POSSESS:
- Educated to degree level in a numerate subject
- Project experience as BA within Finance in an investment bank
- Strong knowledge of the Finance processes
- Strong systems knowledge – ability to articulate IT issues and solutions.
Company Profile
As one of the world's leading financial services group, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Founded in 1856, Credit Suisse has a long tradition of meeting the complex financial needs of a wide range of clients, offering advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally. The Credit Suisse Group is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 40,000 people.
Cultural diversity is essential to our success. As such, we employ people from more than 100 countries. Credit Suisse empowers employees to work openly and respectfully with each other and with clients, ultimately striving to deliver superior results while offering initiatives and programs to assist employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.
Credit Suisse is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of any protected category.
To the extent permitted or required by applicable law, a candidate who is offered employment will be subject to a criminal record check and other background checks before the appointment is confirmed.