Business Analyst – Reporting recruitment
The role involves:
Business Analysis:
• Gathering and documenting business requirements, including devising solutions to efficiently meet business needs.
• Looking for opportunities to enhance controls, improve efficiencies, and reduce operational risk
• Facilitating prioritisation of work items
• Liaising with IT to define and monitor IT system solutions to support business change
• Co-ordinate testing: create test plans, define and manage UAT and manage defect tracking and resolution
• Coordinating user testing and acceptance of process and system change
• Defining and documenting procedures training, in conjunction with the line managers to support and control the new business processes and applications
• Participate in all aspects of the project lifecycle
Project Management:
• Manage delivery of defined projects within time, cost and quality
• Engage / lead project working group / project team meetings
• Managing project phases independently – e.g. requirements analysis, user testing, managing of process change
• Manage project stakeholders
• Record and track risks and issues and manage them through to completion
• Assisting with project controls and communications. E.g.: Regular updates and escalation of key issues and risks to the project manager.
• Drive priorities
• Monitor project progress and communicate to programme and senior management
• Manage business analyst(s) tasks and activities within the project
Programme Management:
• Manage delivery of the market risk methodology programme of work
• Raise and communicate project delays, issue and risks to programme management
• Track performance against project metrics
• Lead steering committee meetings
• Engage with management of associated external projects
Extended hours may be required during peak project delivery periods
• Educated to degree level
• Major in Finance, Accounting or technical discipline
• Good financial markets and market risk knowledge e.g. products, markets, risk concepts, risk methodologies (e.g. VaR, IRC), risk practices
• 5 years + Market Risk Management line experience within the Financial Services sector or
• 4 years+ experience in the Financial Services sector in a market risk change management / consulting role
• Experienced project manager with proven project management and delivery ability
• Proven change experience in an investment or large commercial bank, accountancy or consultancy firm
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Proven track record of delivery of change initiatives with material systems content
• Prince II Qualified
• Six Sigma qualified
• Good IT knowledge
This is a Project Manager role with potential in 24-36 months to grow into fuller Programme Management role.
The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) division comprises 4 key functional areas – Strategic Risk Management, Credit Risk Management, Bank Operational Risk Oversight and Risk Analytics and Reporting (RAR). These functions provide high-quality, cost-effective risk management services to support the operating divisions, while improving independent controls.
RAR is globally led by Jason Forrester and reports to the Chief Risk Officer (CRO); the function is located across all major locations and is responsible for:
(1) market and credit risk information management market risk reporting;
(2) credit risk measurement
(3) independent risk model validation across all areas of CRO;
(3) credit risk reporting;
(4) managing development and implementation of risk systems; and
(5) Regulatory change and coordination, establishing policies covering market risk, credit risk and operational risk.
CRO Change is part of RAR and is globally led by Nick Bolton. CRO Change comprises approximately 50 staff globally with presence in London, Zurich and Singapore. The team has overall responsibility for defining and managing regional and global change across business process, data and technology for CRO.
Specifically, CRO Change are responsible for:
• Design and implementation of the target state Risk data, process and technology architectures.
• Ensuring that CRO projects are managed in a consistent manner. CRO Change are 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, CRO Change acts as a facilitator for risk management and issue resolution to enable projects to advance.
• Ensuring for the CRO line functions that tactical changes are appropriately balanced against strategic initiatives.
• Ensuring that the business process and technical architecture is appropriately aligned to business needs.
• Ensuring that projects are effectively prioritised across the division and resources (CRO Line, CRO IT and CRO Change) are allocated accordingly.
CRO Change provides a point of contact for other CS groups so that the impact on CFO of both Bank-wide and other division changes can be effectively evaluated and communicated.
As one of the world's leading banks, 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, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 45,000 people. Further information can be found at www.credit-suisse.com.
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.