Risk Management Group recruitment

Macquarie Group is a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services.

At Macquarie we offer you the experience and freedom to grow your career whilst making your mark within a highly successful organization. Key to our success is the entrepreneurialism we encourage in all our people. We give you the opportunity to progress your career as quickly as you can demonstrate your ability.

Macquarie's business is structured into six operating groups and five support groups.

Strong prudential management has been a key to Macquarie's success over many years. The Risk Management Group is an independent, centralized unit responsible for assessing and monitoring risks across the Macquarie Group. The Compliance Division within Macquarie's Risk Management Group provides compliance support and advice to Macquarie's operating businesses.

The Records Management program has recently been initiated by Macquarie's Risk Management (RMG), Legal Governance and the Market Operations and Technology Division (MOTD) to ensure compliance with regulatory and legal obligation for capturing, storing, retaining and deleting any type of data and records across the entire group. The regulatory framework covers existing obligations as well as upcoming changes like the Dodd-Frank reform in the US.

The program is currently being established and an exciting opportunity has been identified for a highly motivated Business/Technical Analyst to support the set-up and implementation of this programme. This role is a contract role until the end of December 2012.

Key Responsibilities

· Establish the requirements and develop a design for tools and processes to maintain a data and process map in a global operational environment

· Determine the need and establish a design to remediate existing processes and applications to ensure compliance with internal policies and current/future regulatory legal obligations like the upcoming Dodd Frank reform

· Liaise with technology teams to frame/resolve the technical issues surrounding implementation of Records Management and Social Media policies.

· Support the documentation and analysis of the current state of records management across all business units, e.g. developing data and process maps of the current state

· Support the RFP and vendor assessment process via the creation of requirements documentation, conducting workshops and analysing vendor responses

· Set up and develop project plans for the current and future phases of the programme, like the rollout of new technologies or the remediation of existing environments (technology and processes)

· Engage with and liaise between stakeholders on various levels across a broad group of divisions (business, operations and technology)

· Escalating issues to Programme Manager where appropriate

· Providing thought leadership and practical advice to stakeholders across various business units

Experience Skills Required

· In-depth knowledge of books records obligations and requirements for financial services firms, including all aspects of legal discovery, production of data for litigation, legal holds

· Profound understanding of investment banking and investment banking operations

· Understanding business process management and business requirements gathering/analysis and the ability to translate them into end-to-end solution designs, including process as well as technical designs

· Be technology adept in using products such as data/document discovery, data and process maps and general data/records management

· Ability to document and analyse complex information and data

· Understanding of full project lifecycle, including the implementation of new technology applications or applying changes to existing applications

· Professional or tertiary qualification

· Excellent communication, presentation and organisational skills

· Outstanding documentation skills

Macquarie is an equal opportunity employer (M/F/D/V).