Business Design Lead
A Tier One Investment Bank requires a Business Design lead to work on one of their Reference Data programs . The programme being driven forward is a new Operating Model, Workflow and Database to store key attributes extracted from legal documents (e.g. ISDAs and CSAs). A key driver for the program currently is to deliver mandatory attributes to enable optimised RWA modelling. The wider group aims to establish single master databases (Golden Copies) for quality-controlled client and product data, migrating all departments to use this data, and implementing clear data ownership and governance.
Requirements
• Help define solution options and contribute to delivery.
• Initiate, gather and document requirements reviews with business stakeholders and colleagues within IT to facilitate subsequent sign off
• Create key project design documents to include end-to-end current/future business process flows, use cases, BRD/FRD’s, test packs / cases, cost/benefit analyses etc.
• Undertake detailed data analysis and profiling across various applications to understand the current state.
• Identify and document process changes and system enhancements.
• Ensure process improvement through redesign is at the forefront of all initiatives.
• Establish strong relationships with various functions and businesses throughout IB.
- Set up, run and participate in working groups tasked with solving specific data challenges within the organisation.
- Test preparations and executions.
- Defining and enforcing standards, templates and best practices for all business analysis processes across the program.
- Ensuring standard and quality of deliverables is acceptable and consistent across all projects and requisite sign offs are gained in the required timeframes.
- Manage cross programme dependencies
- Responsible for the interaction and relationship between the Business and IT BA teams, including structured demarcation of responsibilities between the teams, in conjunction with the IT BA Lead
Experience
Essential
• Track record in delivering major adoption/migration projects in an investment bank or similar institution
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
- Strong problem solving skills
- Strong knowledge of investment banking business processes – front to back
- Ease in dealing with senior management
- Experience in achieving results in a project context using resources that do not report directly to them
• Solid knowledge of IT, including experience of managing IT-oriented projects, user requirements development, and testing
• Good understanding of IT oriented methods and approaches
• Extremely strong organisational skills
• Excellent relationship and interpersonal skills
- People management experience
• Good knowledge of standard office software (e.g. Excel, Word) and SQ
Highly required
• Knowledge of Legal Agreement Data (e.g. ISDA, CSA or other legal agreements types)
• Knowledge of Reference Data
• Knowledge of Collateral Management processes
• Knowledge of CVA / DVA and Collateral Optimisation
• Knowledge of the banking regulatory environment
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