This role is a great opportunity for people with FX and derivatives product knowledge interested in further development in one of the biggest bank in the world
As FX Services Change and Currency Overlay Solutions Associate within Change Management team you will minimize operational and financial risk to the business through the existing and future change agenda initiatives. This will predominantly focus on the recent additional offerings by the Currency Overlay Solutions team. You will be responsible for program implementation, Business Requirement documentation, client impact analysis and regression testing. In addition, the design of a bespoke set of controls, including various static data reconciliations will likely be required from you. A key element for your work will be also project managing stakeholders and publishing out scorecards, and providing progress updates to senior management
Job responsibilities
1. Owns the project management of change agenda items
2. Manages oversight and accountability of change initiatives
3. Maintains business requirement documentation
4. Implements projects runbooks and stakeholder sign offs
5. Partners with technology and Product teams to improve current systems / procedures, and build out new initiatives
6. Identifies and addresses opportunities for improvement; taking appropriate actions to deliver simple and innovative solutions that improve the business and initiate and effect positive change
7. Identifies issues/gaps within the processes and offer solutions to close the gaps; identify root cause of problems and implement robust, strategic, controlled and cost effective solutions/recommendations
8. Supports client migrations onto new strategic infrastructures, including impact assessments on reporting
9. Produces detailed executive summary materials throughout the program time horizon
10. Prepares Operations deck for monthly Ops meeting with business head, trading desk head, business management and business control officer
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
11. A solid level understanding of FX and derivatives product knowledge and an understanding of CIB Risk and/or Middle Office/Back Office systems
12. Experience working in Middle Office or Change Management teams with a sound understanding of the Front to Back trade lifecycle
13. Experience of reengineering processes and achieving positive change
14. Effective and confident communicator in order to deal with a diverse range of employees and clients, and be able to succeed in a demanding and fast paced environment. Ability to interface and influence at all levels
15. Strong analytical skills to evaluate bespoke Client models, operational processes and potential model re-engineering
16. Experience with Microsoft Office Suite / Visio
17. Highly articulate, motivated, very flexible and will use their initiative to fully develop the role
18. An independent, analytical thinker who can quickly assimilate situations through to the associated risks, business or control issues
19. Well organised with excellent time and people management skills
20. Act independently and autonomously in facing off to the various stakeholder groups outlined above in order to drive the internal decision making process
21. Motivation to self-start as well as ability to work as part of a high performing team