Business Analyst (OTC/Derivatives)
Contract Duration: 12 months
Pay rate: $24.50/hr
Selected candidate will join the reconciliation team.
Key Responsibilities
This is a very dynamic and evolving function with a significant transformational element. The team have to quickly gain credibility and operational excellence in its own service offering whilst at the same time build multi-functional relationships both within the client operation's but also into our client base.
Key responsibilities include:
• Become proficient in the reconciliation process
• Be a change agent, leading and delivering upon change initiatives within the context of the reconciliation function
• Partner with the other regional teams to help move this team into a true global service model
• Pro-actively challenge the status quo, identify and drive change to improve upon the current model
• Inject governance, reporting and transparency into the day to day activities
• Negotiate delicate decision points around client on-boarding choices using a commercial, control and pragmatic mind-set
• Be a change agent, leading and delivering upon change initiatives within the context of the reconciliation function
Competencies
Strategic Thinking
• Focuses strategies on delivering superior value to clients
• Translates strategies into plans that can be effectively executed
Business Results
• Anticipates risks and obstacles and devises plans to manage them
• Pursues aggressive goals and continuously raises performance expectations to achieve excellence
• Appreciates the cost impact of actions and is commercial in decision-making
• Promotes continuous learning and development
People Leadership
• Encourages and listens to the contributions of others in order to reach the right decision
• Makes sure there is a frank and open exchange of ideas among team members
• Makes decisions based on what is good for the whole organization, not just his/her business unit
Personal Effectiveness
• Takes personal ownership for delivering superior services to clients
• Makes tough decisions when they are needed and acts quickly in getting things done
• Demonstrates the courage to express or defend unpopular decisions
• Maintains a constructive, positive outlook even when plans are thwarted
Planning and Organisation
• Manages own time well, agreeing priorities. Multi-tasks effectively, work well under pressure and meets tight and changing deadlines.
• Organises and runs effective meetings and workshops
Communication Skills
• Communicates clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing, at all levels within the organization
Skills / Experience
Essential:
- Previous Middle Office or Operations experience
- Familiarity with markets products ideally in more than one asset class
- Structured and logical thinker
- Delivery focused, driven to improve
- Partnership and communication skills
- Presentation skills, able to summarise messages
- Strong assertiveness, listening, influencing and diplomacy skills.
- Ability to run effective meetings
- Self-motivated.
- Competent with MS products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project and Visio.
- Proven track record (5+ years) of delivering projects to plan and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Strong assertiveness, listening, influencing and diplomacy skills.
- Ability to run effective meetings, work shops and off-sites with different levels of management.
- Self-motivated.
- Competent with MS products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project and Visio.
- Knowledge of structured project management methods (e.g. PMBOK)
- Knowledge of structured business analysis (e.g. 6 Sigma)
- Experience of working in Financial Services, especially Investment Banking
- Product Knowledge: Collateral Management, Client Valuations
- Knowledge of Middle Office and Back Office processing (trade capture, confirmation, settlements, lifecycle management, asset servicing)
To know more on this opportunity or to schedule an interview, please contact:
Laidiza Gumera
973-774-7804
laidiza.gumera(at)collabera.com