CFO Change – Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst recruitment
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. 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.
THE ROLE INVOLVES:
This person will be part of the Finance CFO Change function, working on the Strategic Price Testing program.
The main responsibilities of this role are:
To be part of the team responsible for the following deliverables within one of the projects in the Strategic IPV Program:
- Business Requirements documents
- Functional Requirements documents
- Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, and test execution
- Define and manage a project plan
- Run and chair project status and updates
- Manage and communicate to business stakeholders
TO QUALIFY YOU MUST POSSESS:
Essential:
Degree qualified
Desirable
- Qualified accountant or equivalent e.g. MBA
- Major in Finance, Accounting, or technical discipline
Essential:
- 5-7 yrs experience as business analyst and project manager
- Experience in product control
- Experience in Investment Banking environment
Desirable:
- Product knowledge – OTC Derivatives, Listed Derivatives and FX products
- Previous price testing experience
- Must gain respect of Credit Suisse Managing Directors and Directors
- Quality Focused
- Proactive in approach with ample confidence to execute the strategy efficiently
- Well polished
- Able to work at a detailed and executive level (macro/micro)Self directed and ability to work independently.
- Proactively manage timeline, issues, and client to ensure on time delivery of quality deliverables.
- Ability to understand and challenge business processes and IT on technical processes and development.
- Working along side the client to shape target state with goals of simplification, standardization and efficiency.
- Multiple data gathering techniques (e.g. one-on-one, large group facilitated sessions)
- Managing multiple tasks and deliverables
- Strong facilitation and presentation skills
- Strong problem solving skills
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 3-5 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.
The Strategic IPV program within CFO Change is responsible for providing a standardized framework of global processes and global infrastructure for Product Control (PC) to perform, analyze, and validate the IPV process and results.
The program aims to provide a framework for standard and repeatable global processes and a strategic end-state infrastructure for PC to perform, analyze, and document the IPV process and results. The framework will enable PC to ensure that appropriate valuation models are used (where applicable), market data is sourced and selected, parameters are selected, and FO RM systems (or acceptable valuation alternatives) are interrogated to obtain independent trade / transaction level valuations based on Price Testing Methodology and associated Actionability Templates (AFITs). Enhanced analytics and reporting requirements will be implemented through a centralized reporting tool (PC Results Store).