Business Execution Consultant

In this role, you will:

• Participate in a variety of assigned and ongoing business operations to ensure success in meeting business goals and objectives
• Identify opportunities for process improvement by conducting root cause testing of all compliance and business metrics
• Determine areas of strength or Business Execution opportunity within defined scope of work
• Review and research strategies and action plans to establish effective processes while meeting performance metrics and policy expectations
• Utilize independent judgment to guide moderate risk deliverables
• Present recommendations to develop, implement, and monitor strategic approaches, effectiveness of support function, and business performance improvement opportunities for managing risks of the business
• Exercise independent judgment and provide guidance in diverse support functions and operations for a single business group within a line of business
• Collaborate and consult with leaders and executive management
• Provide work direction to less experienced Strategy and Execution staff

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Responsibilities

• Design and document new business requirements to drive change or enhancements to regulatory reporting platform.
• Perform impact assessments to understand the impact on Operations, across all front-office assets (including Rates, Credit, SPG, Exotics, FX, Commodities, Equities, Futures, Repos and Bonds), of new guidelines published by regulators.
• Drive delivery of all project deliverables including business case, requirements, project planning, testing, implementation, and closing.
• Identify, analyze and manage risks, issues and interdependencies, escalating as necessary and ensure project tasks are completed according to established timelines
• Ensure that project delivery is carried out according to the defined scope.
• Appropriate tracking and monitoring are imposed throughout the implementation and post successful completion.
• Collaborate with Technology and Operations teams to comply with reporting obligations.
• Ensure that the project is rolled out across asset classes and multiple functional trade reporting projects.
• Maintain up to date working knowledge of the industry and ensure that the organizations interests are taken into account.

Essential Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 + years of experience within financial services industry
• Experience with end-to-end, front-to-back Change Management within Capital Markets.
• Knowledge of OTC Derivatives through from trade capture to back-office
• Experience documenting Testing Strategies, coordinating testing efforts across multiple platforms and business functions, capturing and documentation of UAT results, creation of test scripts and managing the pass/fail process of all test procedures.
• Working knowledge and implementation experience within Regulatory Transaction Reporting- CFTC, HKMA, CAD, EMIR, MIFID is a plus
• Working knowledge of industry trade repositories (ie. DTCC) is a plus
• Experience with implementation of strategic control framework across multiple reporting requirements and regimes.
• Ability to interface between the business and technology teams, work collaboratively and communicate effectively with stakeholders in IT, Operations, Product Control and the Business.
• Ability to understand problems, identify solutions and develop clear options and recommendations.
• Experience with both waterfall and agile approaches to project delivery
• Ability to support the shift from 3:30pm IST to 12:30 am IST.

Desired qualifications

• Master degree in Business Administration with majors in Finance or related domain