Azure Directory Consultant

The Role:

Within Corporate Functions. this role sits within the DSO(Daily Sales Outstanding) program. Once such DSO workstream is the Strategic Invoice Platform Consolidation initiative. This multi-year greenfield initiative is building a strategic cloud enabled post trade invoicing system for our Global Broking LoB. Thereafter a multi-year migration will move the invoice & discounting capabilities from the legacy technology stacks onto the new platform in a phased manner across all of our Global trading entities.

The successful candidate will be required to:
• Own/Shape/Refine a migration sequence at client/desk/asset class level across multiple trading regions
• Coordinate, hold and lead requirements gathering and process definition workshops with the business. Monitor, track issues, risks and dependencies on analysis and requirements work
• Proactively ensure project (functional + non-functional) requirements are captured and signed off by key senior Business and Technology stakeholders
• Challenge stakeholders or other Technology teams where requirements or solutions are not in line with wider strategy, or lead to increased risk
• Form part of an Agile Delivery POD/Team with specific accountabilities around Story refinement, achieving DoR, DEV/QA handovers, Test support
• Transpose hi-level functional requirements into granular JIRA stories with sufficient granularity as to achieve DoR(Definition of Ready)
• Ensuring that current & target state data & process flows are clearly documented in JIRA’s as appropriate
• Complete handover of JIRA’s to Developers as part of the DoR stage-gate
• Work with QA’s to ensure test approaches and test AC’s align with the functional objective of each story.
• Understand and challenge requirements; proactively raise risks and issues to the Project Manager where identified
• Support testing phases (SIT, UAT etc) and end user training
• Take responsibility for the quality of Business Analysis work within the same business line, peer review work and provide feedback
• Manage ad-hoc tasks as required

Risk Responsibilities

Ensure that you understand the risks and controls on your department; what could go wrong, what controls you have to prevent/detect or contain these.

o Ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility;

o Report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as described in the policy;

o Escalate risk events immediately and log them within 24 hours using the risk event capture form on the intranet;

o Provide input if requested to the Risk and Control Self-Assessment process, scenario analysis, ‘Deep Dive’ reviews and any other risk management processes, as required.

Person Specification

Knowledge
• A good understanding of the front-to-back trade lifecycle, including client facing UI, trading, middle/back-office and reference data
• Understanding of the full project life cycle from requirements capture through to implementation and delivery
• Proficient at data analysis tasks using basic SQL, understand the data requirements from upstream/downstream
• Ownership of functional specs

Experience

o MUST HAVE

o Proven experience of Big data migrations/Data Integration/Data analysis across at client/desk/asset class level

o Previous experience operating as a Senior Business Analyst in Financial Services Technology, ideally within an Agile development environment.

o Strong understanding of financial products and their data characteristics.

o Big data analysis using SQL, Python or equivalent tooling to identify functional and non-functional requirements

o UML modelling for functional workflow and requirements

o Highly proficient in Excel, pivots etc. It is key the successful candidate can digest large data extracts, reconcile them and/or turn them into meaningful dashboard summaries

o Solid understanding of HL Architecture/Technical Designs, and specifically which components are impacted by specific requirements, understanding downstream impacts

o XML/BML/fpML Experience

o NICE TO HAVE

o Candidates having previous experience whereby JIRA formed the golden source of truth for large transformation projects are highly desirable.

o MI & Regulatory Reporting will be a significant part of this role. Experience in breaking down and grouping such requirements will be instrumental in this role

o Preferred candidates will have experience with API contracts, swagger etc.

Skills

o Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management at all levels; strong presentation skills, collab tools

o Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements for data integration projects.

o Strong analytical ability and problem solving skills, ability to work to tight deadlines

o Analyse and map data flows between different financial systems and applications.

o Ability to work on multiple projects whilst managing multiple deadlines and differing priorities

o Ability to self-start, identify tasks required independently to fulfil project deliverables and work as a team member

o Writing skills - ability to produce documents in a clear, accurate and compelling manner

o Results oriented and personal accountability

o Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive approach

o Skilled in Microsoft applications software, inclusive of MS Visio and / or BPMN 2.0