Description
Client: TOP TIER INVESTMENT BANK
Role Specifics
The role is for a PM/senior-BA to deliver system and business changes to meet demands around P&L and Risk Attribution within the existing MI systems. This is a high profile and very dynamic initiative.
The role focus will involve:
- Systems implementation to accept, store and report such data, and
- Implement business processes for sign-off, monitoring and control and to report into the governance
This will be achieved by:
- Defining the business requirements and functional specification
- Supporting the business on strategic design decisions relating to process and systems
- Partnering effectively with technology in the delivery of the business requirements
- Defining and managing the UAT
- Monitoring business benefit realisation
- Communicating effectively to senior management
Role Requirements
Education/Qualifications
- Accountancy, IT or MBA qualifications would be useful but not essential
- Prince 2 or PMI would be useful but not essential
Experience Required
- Minimum 3 years BA experience in the financial services industry and 2 two years of project management experience
- Experience in change management, specifically in the project management of delivery and implementation of projects is required that will allow the candidate to operate autonomously throughout the project life cycle through to delivery.
- An understanding of the types, nature, attributes, flows of information in investment banking/Finance/other infrastructure functions. Solid understanding of the technical implications of defining, managing, storing, enriching and distributing information.
- The successful candidate will work with IT - so is not expected to be a technology expert but will need to have the communication and coordination skills to be the main point of contact with IT.
- Awareness of equivalent industry players and how they have tackled P&L and Risk Attribution within Finance is an advantage.
- Knowledge of the investment banking, sales & trading, asset management and similar industries is a strong advantage. Detailed trading or risk management knowledge is not essential, but any candidate must be familiar enough with the business to be able to understand the business process, information & technology issues.