About the Role:
This position will focus on delivering the Product & Strategic Delivery change portfolio aligned with Broker dealer operations from I&P.The role will support onshore Product & Strategic Delivery Team in delivery of their change projects.
In this role, you will:
- Lead support functions or operations for multiple business groups and contribute to large scale strategic initiatives
- Ensure efficiency, quality, cost effectiveness of solutions, and pipeline management relating to assigned operations
- Research moderately complex business, operational, and strategic initiatives that require analytical skills, basic knowledge of organizational strategy and Business Execution, and understanding of international business
- Work independently to make recommendations for support function by providing support and leadership
- Assist in the planning and execution of a variety of programs and initiatives that may include risk mitigation, efficiency, and customer experience
- Collaborate and consult with team leaders in developing project plans, policies and procedures
- Provide leadership in management of relationships and implementation of programs, services, and initiatives with cross functional business partners
Responsibilities:
- Partner & collaborate with stakeholders located both locally & globally in achieving shared business objectives & goals.
- Leverage relationships with Operations, Technology and QA to schedule change delivery
- Support Onshore P&SD to facilitate routine initiative update calls
- Should be able to support theshift from 3:30 pm IST to 12:30 am IST.
- Coordination and ownership of the scheduled UAT releases
- Assist with documentation of changes, as applicable
- Generate and produce meaningful reports, including weekly, monthly, and ad hoc reporting requests
- Communicating issues identified and delivering reports in a timely manner to recipients
Required Qualifications:
- 6-7 years of financial services experience with good communication skills.
- Minimum 4+ years of Business Analyst experience in capital markets space.
- Advanced Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint) skills
- Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
- Candidate should have experience in writing BRD's, User Stories, test cases and performing UAT.
- Hands on experience in business and risk analysis space.
End to End project management experience:
- stand up cross functional initiatives and identify and engage key stakeholders / applications
- create and maintain comprehensive project plan and manage overall Product roadmap including monthly reviews with key stakeholders.
- create and maintain RAID log
- establish meeting cadence amongst project team
- Distribute meeting agenda prior to hosting a meeting & create and send meeting minutes including action items
- create effective status reports for senior leadership and create documentation for, and lead steering committee meetings
- effectively communicate escalations and next steps to senior leadership
End to End business analysis experience:
- work closely with line of business to write effective user stories in JIRA
- join and contribute to scrum meetings including prioritization of the back log.
- work closely with line of business to write effective test scripts
- oversee UAT from front to back engaging technology and business for defect resolution and end of day UAT Status reporting.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience/knowledge of equity and fixed income transaction lifecycle.
- Graduate degree or higher / MBA (Preferred)
- Experience at a Strategy Consulting firm
- Knowledge in Agile/SDLC Methodologies
- Experience working in international environment
