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Position: Credit Business Change – Data Sourcing and Cross Product Functional Lead
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Job Description

Credit Risk Control Business Change (CRC BC) is responsible for providing the combination of process and resource to facilitate and support effective business change. The CRC BC teams work within a global functional framework across multiple regions with varying requirements.

A role exists for a senior business analyst within the team to support and lead business changes within the area of Data Sourcing and Cross Product. This area deals in the main with the sourcing of data into the Credit environment, and the controls that are required to ensure data integrity. This is a leadership role to support the achievement of CRC’s business goals.

A core aspect of the role is to partner with the Credit business and Risk IT in order to:
- Provide input into the CRC vision for Data Sourcing
- Be the custodian of the CRC target functional model (TFM) – the goal of the TFM being to drive the implementation of a consistent business process model globally
- Produce an understanding of the overall business case to assist in prioritisation of the CRC project portfolio

The role also supports the delivery of analysts’ activities following a formal development life cycle from inception through analysis, specification, user-acceptance testing and delivery of detailed user documentation. It is very important that the candidate has experience and knowledge of a formal project life cycle ideally in a global functional team environment. This is vital for the role.

The role supports the management of all functional activities within the Data Sourcing and Cross Product. This covers, but is not limited to:
– Actively manage the functional analyst resources and testers assigned to the project, or programme
– Assist in project initiation, and create a project scope document
– Define analysis deliverables, and ensure quality and consistency
– Assist with the definition of the Testing Strategy, Conversion Strategy (if applicable), Training and Education Strategy, and ensure quality and consistency through implementation
– Work with the Project Manager to establish standards in respect of end user project / change communication
– They will take responsibility for collecting and verifying the business requirements, analysing systems and data associated with the requirements to define the functional specification.

The individual must be practically minded and have a logical, systematic approach to work. The ability to meet deadlines in a challenging environment is a pre-requisite.

The successful candidate will join a global team and gain significant exposure to all aspects of Credit Risk Control. They will work within a diverse environment incorporating credit officers, trading / sales, IT professionals and project managers.


CLIENT
- Ensure client relationships and interaction are conducted professionally.
- Develop effective working relationships with key stakeholders where required.
- Understand stakeholders' strategic requirements and how that impacts the strategy.
- Provide guidance on current and ongoing progress to stakeholders in the organization as appropriate.
– It is critical that the candidate is able to communicate well (oral and written). The candidate should be able to explain technical issues to a non-technical audience.

PEOPLE
– Strong management and communication skills are essential.
– Able to effectively lead a team of business analysts, drawing on resources within the team (and across the bank) to deliver results quickly and efficiently. Adhering to tight deadlines.
– Organised, detail oriented, self-motivated and respond well under pressure.
– Cooperative, enthusiastic and adaptable.

ECONOMIC
– Good broad knowledge of Trading Book business and risk control will help to ensure that analysis (theory) can be implemented in practise.
– Aptitude for generating innovative ideas and developing solutions to problems

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

– Experience of leading data sourcing projects (with significant levels of data analysis and some data modelling) is essential
– Experience in structured analysis, process design, writing specifications and user acceptance testing (UAT) is a pre-requisite. The candidate will need to show that he/she understands the full project cycle.
– A methodical, logical and structured approach to assigned work is vital.
– Strong organisational skills with disciplined and structured approach.
– Broad familiarisation with project management methodologies and tools.
– Clear verbal and written communication.
– A detailed understanding of the CRC business process, and the tools / systems that support those processes is desirable
– Maintain the professional, ethical and legal standards required in CRC.
– A background that includes some IT technical experience will be viewed positively.
– Proficient with Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio and Access.
- Numerical or business degree expected.

Duration:

Permanent

Location:

London

Start Date:

ASAP

Salary:

 

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positions@phdit.com

Telephone:

+ 44 (0)20 -7190 2970

Reference:

02236

 

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