Trade Director

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My client is one of the largest financial institutions headquartered in Japan, with an established presence across all consumer and corporate banking businesses. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, they offer a diverse range of financial services, including commercial banking, leasing, securities, credit card, consumer finance and other services.

They are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Analyst with experience in trading controls and business analysis to join their dynamic team. You will play a critical role in a project to improve their trading operations. You will be expected to analyse and document trading processes and controls to identify areas for improvement and so this position requires a deep understanding of trading processes, transaction controls and risk management.

Technical expert: has the breadth of experience, knowledge and technical expertise across the Business Analysis (BA) function to be the ‘go to’ or escalation point for resolution of business analysis challenges and complex situations. Senior liaison point between IT and/or the business, uses data to assess processes, determine requirements and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Analyse and document trading processes and controls to identify areas for improvement.
• Develop and implement strategies to enhance trading controls and mitigate risks.
• Provide insights and recommendations based on data analysis to support decision-making.
• Collaborate in designing and implementing Management Information dashboards showing risk KPIs.
• Detail the appropriate business requirements and regulatory technical specification to support any changes or new requirements and ensure the correct governance of the changed process.
• Collaborate with Trading, Risk Management, and Compliance teams to ensure alignment with regulatory requirements.
• Present at SteerCos, translating complex data e.g. regulation, process flows or technical detail clearly and logically, explaining any implications or risks so that senior management can make effective decisions based on the BA’s input.
• Work closely with the SME/s to appraise senior stakeholders (likely to include MD and above stakeholders) of the potential impact of change on the service, function or system/s highlighting the options, impact and potential links between required changes on the existing infrastructure so that well informed decisions can be made.
• Communicate clearly within a multi-disciplinary team, gain consensus for the best solution and implement the required changes to maintain compliance with regulation and/or gain efficiencies.
• Ensure that the benefits of changes and recommendations are made clear to the relevant departments and to senior stakeholders and address any uncertainty and concern.
• Support and involve the appropriate staff and teams in the QA, testing and delivery of changes, including helping to resolve any issues.
• Ensure plans are made and processes are created to evaluate the impact of the changes made, including taking responsibility for overseeing and reporting on this evaluation.
• Document and store all BA artefacts for the project so that they can be provided for internal audit or regulatory oversight.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
• Industry recognised BA qualification is beneficial.
• Extensive experience in financial services, ideally with roles in BAU roles in addition to BA roles.
• Able to successfully manage multiple tasks at any given point, strong relationship building skills & communication skills (both written and verbal).
• Strong understanding of and experience in banking and capital markets including trade lifecycles, back/middle/front office, and Treasury functions.
• Demonstrable skills and experience across all BA functions - analytical, interpretative, process driven and evaluative.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively to gain agreement and resolve conflict.
• Resilient to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Must demonstrate flexibility to move between “big picture” thinking and handling detailed tactical information.
• Able to work collaboratively in teams, ask probing questions to assess and rapidly understand complex business systems and processes, analyse data, and make recommendations based on evidence from data.

Specialist Technical Skills

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst with strong knowledge of transactions controls and risk management, including confirmation, valuation, margin & collateral, P&L, cash & settlement, mandates, cancel and amend; and perimeter controls including limits, blocks and venue controls.
• Deep knowledge and evidence of experience of all BA processes, techniques, and skills.
• Expertise in banking & capital market products, prior experience of providing business process analysis, business requirements documentation and supporting testing protocols.
• High level of proficiency with typical BA software products and systems.

Candidates must show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered.

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