Business Execution Consultant - CIB Ops & Change Management

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 the shift 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