Vice President recruitment

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Job Title: Business Analyst (BA)
Corporate Title: Vice President
Department: Information Processing Layer (IPL)
Location: London

Overview:
The role exists within the Information Processing Layer (IPL) work-stream of the StRIDe Financial Reporting Initiative (FRI). The purpose of the IPL Work-stream is to source Finance data from upstream systems, validate the data quality and then provide it on a timely basis into the relevant Finance systems, in line with the agreed StRIDe architecture. The work-stream will also establish a governance, demand and change management process around the Finance feeds landscape.

The requirement is for a senior Business Analyst with investment banking finance experience, who will lead the analysis and documentation of the current state, and define the feeds migration strategy and the detailed business requirements to move towards the new finance systems architecture. The requirement is for someone who has worked previously on large scale projects and programs of work across business areas.

The project has resources onshore and within an offshore service centre so familiarity of working with different cultures will be useful.

Key Responsibilities:
* Document the current state feeds landscape in a formal modeling tool by working with the relevant system owners and the offshore BA team.
* Develop and implement a feeds governance and change management framework.
* Work with the program's data architecture team, Information Technology (IT) and Operations to determine the correct data sourcing to support the target architecture.
* Work with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to define business rules to populate missing data fields in order to map to the agreed data standard.
* Work with IT to define and execute an implementation plan.

You will have:
* Previous investment banking experience, ideally in product accounting, sub-ledgers and accounting schemas.
* Systems analysis skills including experience of working on large scale IT projects.
* Strong communication and interpersonal skills and previous experience working with senior stakeholders.
* Data modeling experience and previous experience working with data modeling teams.
* Strong understanding of the systems development lifecycle.