IT Business Analyst III - Daily

Our client, a banking company, is seeking an IT Business Analyst III - Daily

• Lead the new initiatives and enhancements to existing functionality to meet new business or regulatory needs for Collateral Management
• Define potential solutions at a high level, ensuring that any proposed solution meets the overall Domain standards in terms of functionality and architecture
• Convert business requirements into Functional specifications and System requirements
• Explain the functional/system requirements to the development team
• Setup and coordinate meetings associated with various project work-streams.
• Liaise with IT teams negotiating deliveries on the dependencies of the specific work-streams.
• Escalate blocking issues to the appropriate level of management.
• Provide regular reporting of deliveries against key milestones, proactive notification of risks and issues
• Investigation of any issues, determining root causes and obtaining resolution.
• Develop Test Procedures for various deliverables, in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Conduct qualification of releases, System Integrated testing, User Acceptance testing
• Prepare User guides, Business Cases, Training Material, Production Support procedures
• Take ownership of project deliverables against agreed scope, budget and timeline.
• Drive project delivery by maintaining project plans, organize status meetings, and prepare minutes. Develop user training and user guides.
• Ensure that all projects follow the Group Policies and Procedure - including proper Project Governance and reporting.
• Provide reporting to various Governance Operating Committees and Steering Committees to ensure project statuses are accurate, informative and timely.
• Develop and maintain close working relationships with Sponsors and Stakeholders

• 8+ years' experience as a Project Manager / Business Analyst working exclusively on projects within Global Markets;
• 3+ years' experience working on Collateral Management projects
• Essential Project Delivery Skills:
• Strong Business analysis and documentation skills with ability to think logically to analyze problems and define efficient solutions;
• Ability to develop, implement and execute a structured testing approach.
• Experience of designing or re-engineering processes to support the business function.
• Knowledge of analysis methodologies (e.g AGILE user stories).
• Good understanding of OTC Margining and ability to interpret business requests and translate to a functional solution
• Knowledge of trade life cycle
• Excellent verbal / presentation and written communication skills with the ability to document clear and concise business and functional requirements documents;
• Good interpersonal skills to work effectively with representatives of a diverse range of departments globally;

• Work both independently and with a team in a dynamic environment;
• Prioritize, organize own work and manage time effectively;
• Work within an environment with high pressure on timeliness and quality of deliveries;

• Good understanding of OTC products and OTC trade life cycle, including an understanding of data flows between the respective systems
• Exposure to back office and settlement processes.

• Compliance and Regulatory impacts
• Accounting
• Static, Market data/ prices
• P/L impact.

• Understanding complex systems, analyzing, resolving issues, identifying feasible/pragmatic solutions, ability to present options and to provide clear concise summaries including relevant advantages/disadvantages to allow a business decision to be taken
• High standard of documentation, including writing clear and concise functional requirements.
• Liaising with a dispersed set of stakeholders (functionally and geographically).
• Good knowledge of MS Project, Excel, Access, Visio and PowerPoint.
• Ability to write basic/ Intermediate SQL
• Process flow documentation experience.
• Comfortable manipulating and presenting data.
• This is a non-technical role but a strong appreciation of IT and the ability and experience to effectively communicate with technology are essential.