Capital Markets Business Analyst

Capital Markets Business Analyst responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating and documenting detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions within business or strategy-based projects
• Bridges the gap between IT and the business using data to assess processes, determine requirements and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders.
• Identifies areas of impact on the target operating model and provides solutions to mitigate impact.
• This role must communicate within multi-disciplinary teams, gain consensus for the best solution, and implement the required changes within the required timeframe, budget and quality parameters. The individual will ensure that the business case, plans and control processes have sufficient detail and have evaluated the potential impact of the changes made, including a traceability matrix, and will involve the appropriate staff or teams during the QA, testing and delivery of changes, including helping to resolve any issues.
• Works with SME/s and end users to understand and document the practical implications for all associated systems and processes.
• Responsible for documenting business requirements, process flows, and the design of the target operating model, including technical revisions and updates, and building or updating a Traceability Matrix (if required).
• Communicates with internal colleagues to understand the current practice and processes of departments and the organisation, including liaising with EMEA offices to first identify where change is required, then analyse and provide recommendations re the optimal approach, communicate the preferred approach across stakeholders and gather consensus to support and provide documentation to support.
• Identify and document the processes, system changes and timescales required to introduce changes and ensure the correct governance of the change process.
• Work closely with the SME/s to appraise senior stakeholders (likely to include MD and above level 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.
• The individual is accountable to Project lead for the duration of a project and may be expected to present at Steer Cos, translating complex processes and technical detail clearly and logically, explaining any implications or risks so that senior management can make effective decisions based on the BA's input.
• The role must work closely with the bank's technology partners to ensure that market and regulatory changes are reflected accurately and in a timely manner.