Finance Business Analyst

The PM / BA has broad-based responsibilities for the functional design, business line specification and deployment of Finance Systems and Process changes initiatives at both an Americas Legal Entity and IHC level. The candidate will work as a team member of projects.

General responsibilities include:

• Participate in project planning and cost estimates devising strategic and well-thought-out solutions to business initiatives.
• Ability to communicate effectively in geographically dispersed cross-functional teams.
• Generate, analyse, and document user requirements and business processes for IT development (BRD).
• Undertake data assessment, data gap analysis and remediation.
• Implement operational accounting schemas throughout product lifecycle.
• Plan and manage user acceptance and migration testing up to successful delivery of end-product or remediation solution.
• Ensure proper and adequate aftercare and follow-up to remediate any unforeseen issues.
• Manage issues and escalate effectively.
• Ensure on-time quality delivery of projects and tasks assigned.
• Liaise and coordinate cross-functionally to review requirements with stakeholders to enable design and development in liaison with IT, coordinate testing, support go-live, and provide long term support for operational readiness, governance, controls, and aftercare.
• Facilitate working group meetings with effective presentation materials and documentation; prepare agendas, document-meeting outcomes and communicate to stakeholders and management.
• Support enhancement efforts of the overall control environment, including upstream processes and controls.

Specific responsibilities for the Finance Implementation Project PM / BA role:

• Track timelines and budget, report weekly updates, lead, and participate in OpCo/SteerCo meetings
• Work closely with Finance Strategy group for current and upcoming new transactions or activities
• Acts as the contact person within the project teams and for the business line in relation to data and functional aspects and document and validate BRD updates accordingly.
• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills to allow for analysis, summary, and presentation to working group and management as needed.
• Ensure appropriate coverage to anticipate and enable resolution for any unforeseen or blocking issues with appropriate escalation.
• Ensures proper change management controls, rules, and responsibilities as required.

Qualifications:

• 7-10 years of strong experience in project implementation in the field of financial services industry.
• PM oriented with ability to work on leading projects, stakeholder presentations using Opco/Steerco, minutes and budget tracking
• Understanding of financial products and system architectures, including accounting business processes including financial and management reporting (e.g. IFRS and US GAAP), month-end closing process, regulatory reporting and entity consolidations is critical.
• Strong accounting and basic general ledger structure knowledge are must.
• Experience and knowledge trading and markets / corporate banking / retail and wholesale banking / regulatory reporting (e.g. Client, CFTC, SEC).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including business process and data analytics.
• Excellent skills in PowerPoint
• Ability to work effectively in geographically dispersed cross-functional teams.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to multi-task and explain complex issues clearly and concisely to audiences of varying functional, technical or accounting levels
• Strong Microsoft software Office skills (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, Project)
• Knowledge of project management tools, JIRA, SharePoint