Senior Standards Specialist recruitment

Job summary

Company's Standards Business Development APAC team is hiring three full-time business analysts to define business requirements, develop and maintain standards and market practices for the payments, securities and trade finance markets. Key tasks will include planning and execution of project plans, building and maintaining business and logical models, facilitating working groups and representing company in industry groups.
It will also involve consultancy on the implementation of the standards and rollout of standards products, in support of company’s strategy and plans.
We're looking for an energetic professional with at least 7 years of experience in either payments, securities or trade finance operations and/or services. A broad knowledge of the financial industry, and of the Asia Pacific market, excellent English writing and speaking skills are required.
This is a terrific opportunity for a team player who enjoys detailed work, can skillfully negotiate with customers from various countries to reach compromise, and aims to always deliver high quality work while adhering to fixed timeframes.

You will be responsible for:

Analyzing and defining business needs and capturing industry requirements to develop and/or support the development of standards
Coordinating standard development and liaising with internal specialists and/or external customers/markets/standard bodies and working groups in order to ensure the correct definition and use of new standards and maintaining correct business and logical models
Ensuring the smooth roll-out of standards by coordinating the set-up of testing/implementation tools and the generation of adequate documentation
Facilitating standards working groups and/or providing advice and guidance to internal/external customers/vendors to ensure correct implementation of standards and market practice setting
Providing coaching and guidance on payments business topics to colleagues and key customers, and delivering standards consultancy services
Representing company at industry meetings and events

Additional information

Capturing customer requirements, attendance at industry group meetings, execution of consultancy and taking part in key events at head office will require extensive travelling.

Education

Experience

At least 7 years experience in financial services industry
A broad knowledge of the Financial Industry plus an in-depth knowledge of either Payments, Securities or Trade
Experience in working with external customers and/or industry groups
Standards knowledge (MT, ISO 15022, ISO 20022, FpML, FPL, etc) and market practice experience is a significant plus
Detailed knowledge of other business areas is a plus.
Awareness of current financial market initiatives and drivers, specifically those in Asia Pacificis a plus

Skills

Comfortable performing detailed analytical work
An excellent communicator and project manager
A team player, who pro-actively offers to help others and is able to juggle several projects at the same time
A good listener, comfortable selling and negotiating with customers
Able to establish and maintain warm and supportive interpersonal relationships with multicultural co-workers and customers in the region.
Entrepreneurial with a flexible mind-set, able to deal with changing priorities
Fluent in English, both written and spoken
Knowledge of other APAC languages, eg, Mandarin is a plus.

If interested, please send in detailed resume to Leoanderson_Woon@kellyservices.com.sg

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