Senior Derivative Business Analyst recruitment

A London based financial services group requires a Senior Derivatives Business Analyst to join their Change Management Group. The team you will join provide support to the Custody and Operations Outsourcing activity across the full range of OTC and ETD Derivative products for trade support, central clearing, confirmations, pricing, collateral management, lifecycle management, settlement processing, reconciliation and reporting.

Responsibilities

*Work with the global operational teams to develop business cases for capital funding requests for driven by Regulatory, Ops Cost and Ops Risk reductions.
*Field new and existing client service requests and perform scoping/prioritising before handing over to the Change Execution team for project execution.
*Work to aggressive timelines in a very dynamic change environment.
*Proactively manage Change Sponsors and Stakeholders in constantly changing prioritisation environment and ability to present project trade-off decisions.
*Own the change scope but needs strong leadership skills to seamlessly hand over the execution of the project to the change execution team.
*Work with senior management as a Derivative subject matter expert in the continually changing Derivative landscape pro-actively keeping appraised of industry initiatives.
*Work with offshored based IT teams and external software vendors to plan the delivery roadmap including Misys, Lombard risk, MarkitSERV, Markit partners and Super Derivatives.
*Support the Senior Project Managers in Issues and Risk Management.

Knowledge/Skills

Essential skills required
*Significant OTC Derivative experience (preferably multi-asset class).
*Significant Derivatives Business Analytical experience.
*Strong change consultancy skills
*Strong presentation skills
*Ability to work under time and client pressure.
*Adaptable to regular change
*Confidence to challenge Senior Mgmt, Operations and IT where necessary.
*Excellent attention to detail.
*Willingness to take on difficult tasks to closure.
*Ability to present to Internal and External Stakeholders and capture feedback in a structured manner.
*Excellent communication skills both written verbal.

Preferred (but not essential) skills required
*Middle/Back Office operational experience in Derivatives
*Knowledge of the MTM / DTCC / Markitwire / Misys CMS market utilities
*Experience of both the Sell-side and Buy-side communities
*Understanding of Custodian / Operations Outsourcing and Fund Accounting business

This is an urgent requirement so candidates are requested to apply as soon as possible.Advantage Professional is a leading international recruitment consultancy.