Senior Business Analyst – Trading controls in London

Senior Business Analyst - London
3 days onsite (Hybrid)
(£600 - £630 a day Umbrella Inside IR35 Umbrella)

We are looking for a Business Analyst who has experience within the banking sector working on Trading Controll Programmes

We're starting to mobilise a Trading Controls Programme and we're looking for a BA to assist on Supervisory workstream initially.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead analysis and target-state design across Mandates, Product and Trading Supervision, ensuring that requirements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous and verifiable.
• Elicit requirements through workshops, stakeholder interviews, scenario analysis, process reviews, use cases and workflow analysis.
• Define desk and individual trading mandate responsibilities, authorities and controls, with clear lineage to business strategy and risk appetite.
• Support remediation of desk and individual mandates and define interim and target mandate operating models and strategic requirements.
• Develop the Product Taxonomy framework, including product definitions, hierarchy, attributes, governance and change processes.
• Support implementation of the New Product Policy and define Product Governance and Approved Product List ownership, life cycle controls and operating models.
• Define the requirements for a governed, central Approved Product List and associated product data, workflow, control and technology capabilities.
• Develop the Trading Supervision Policy, controls catalogue and interim and target operating models, including responsibilities, standards, management information, escalation and evidence requirements.
• Assess and prioritise preventative, Real Time and near Real Time control improvements, including the transition roadmap for same-day monitoring.
• Define and embed a consistent risk and control escalation framework and align Trading Controls with the wider Risk Management Framework.
• Produce business requirements, functional specifications, process maps, data definitions, test scenarios, training materials and implementation plans.
• Work with Architecture, Technology and business stakeholders to validate solutions and integrate mandate, product and supervision requirements.
• Facilitate workshops and governance reviews to agree scope, ownership, dependencies, delivery sequencing, acceptance criteria and sign-off.
• Manage requirements change, risks, issues and delivery dependencies, escalating material impacts to scope, cost, resources, time or quality.

Qualifications and Experience

• Business analysis or change delivery experience within financial markets, trading controls, risk or regulatory remediation.
• Knowledge of trading mandates, product governance, Product Taxonomy, Approved Product Lists or trading supervision.
• Experience developing policies, operating models, control frameworks, requirements, test scenarios and implementation plans.
• Understanding of front-to-back trading processes and the relationship between authorities, product data, permissions, controls, risk reporting and supervisory oversight.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, negotiation, analytical and written communication skills.
• Experience maintaining traceability from findings and requirements through testing, implementation and completion evidence.

Disclaimer

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.