Sr. Risk BA

Role Summary / Deliverables

 

As a Business Analyst, you will lead requirement gathering activities and assist the Project Delivery Lead in activities that will include:

 

• Formulate recommendations regarding delivery/implementation approach after consultation with key stakeholder groups on estimated effort, resource availability, cross-program dependencies, and other implementation constraints

• Prepare weekly status update dashboards

• Assist the Project Delivery Lead in the preparation of monthly Steering Committee presentation materials

• Create project artifacts ensuring adherence to approved enterprise change governance and standards (e.g. requirements documents, privacy impact assessments, data impact assessments, RACI, target operating model documents, test strategy, requirement strategy etc.)

• Facilitate detailed requirement gathering, consolidation, analysis and coordinating business sign-off

• Write user stories in JIRA

• Consolidate relevant project information in Confluence

• Document business and trade workflows using Microsoft Visio

• Create, own, and contribute to project plans (MS Project, Gantt charts etc.)

• Lead and support testing activities in partnership with internal Quality Engineering, vendor resources and other internal stakeholders

• Proactively identify and manage project risks, issues, and cross-stakeholder group interdependencies (RAID log)

• Demonstrate sound ability to identify and solve problems

• Foster connections with cross functional team members – communicating and raising issues appropriately

• Give timely updates on project status, analysis and findings to senior management and stakeholders

 

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Key Requirements / Skillset

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• Proven expertise and outstanding record of project delivery success, in Capital Markets, in a large complex organization

• In-depth knowledge of the risk function (with high preference for credit risk experience but also other major pillars of risk, market, liquidity, etc) within the capital markets space with proven business analysis experience (10+ years)

• Good understanding of the tools, solutions and technology infrastructure used in securities lending

• High-level of organizational awareness and demonstrated ability to effectively lead/manage business analysis with a wide breadth of cross-stakeholder impacts

• Superior organizational skills – Must be able to identify and track dependencies & issues, ensure proper resolution of outstanding items, document meeting minutes and takeaways in a clear and concise manner

• Prior experience working with Microsoft Visio to complex trade flow diagrams

• Proven expertise leveraging tools such as JIRA and Confluence and using Agile approaches to improve collaboration

• Prior experience working with technology stakeholders including third-party suppliers

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to synthesize complex information into a presentable format and clearly communicate complex concepts to senior and executive audiences

• Advanced Excel experience including the ability to derive findings/conclusions from large datasets

• Ability to work on multiple concurrent tasks and handle time effectively

• Superior inter-personal skills including conflict resolution, influencing and negotiation

• Flexibility to adapt to unfamiliar, ambiguous, or changing conditions

• Ability to make business decisions based upon sound judgement

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