Vice President, Business Analyst - Capital Markets Operations

Summary

Within the project group, the business analyst will work on projects involving Capital Market Operations.

Capital Market Operations Project Team supports:

-Back Office: Equities, Fixed Income, FX-MM, Derivatives,

-Middle Office: Treasury, Credit, FX, IRD, Securitization & Collateral.

-Control & Reconciliation

Key Responsibilities

- Write business requirements/expression of needs.

- Validate specifications from a functional standpoint.

- Draft the test strategy and coordinate User Acceptance Tests.

- Manage the communication around projects to all stakeholders located in the US and Head office.

- Write and/or update operational procedures.

- Formalize process flows (functional and system-related mappings).

- Support and implement the change management actions (new products, new process definition, gap analysis formalization, post-implementation follow up, trainings, operational risk monitoring).

- Ensure post Go Live follow up actions.

Management and Reporting

Reporting to the head of Capital Market Operations Projects

Key Internal contacts

CMO NY/Paris:

- Back Office: Equities, Fixed Income, FX-MM, Derivatives,

- Middle Office: Treasury, Credit, FX, IRD, Securitization & Collateral.

- Control & Reconciliation

Other CMO projects teams:

- CMP Paris, CMO Montreal, CASPL Mumbai.

- NY departments: Front Office, Permanent Control, IT, BCP, Finance, Risk, Audit, Compliance

Key External contacts

- System Vendors

Education Essential

• Master’s degree

Experience Essential

• 7 – 10 years’ experience required
• Project Certifications (PMP, Six Sigma, Lean, Agile…) is a plus

Competencies:

• Team player
• Excellent presentation skills
• Excellent writing skills
• Good time management skills
• Ability to react quickly and use own initiative
• Ability to work with minimum dailysupervision

Skills & Knowledge Required:

• Expertise or valuable working experience on/understanding Equity (Financing & Hedging) activity and FO-to-BO booking and processing is essential
• Knowledge of project management and project life cycle
• Working Knowledge of Capital Market operations & systems (e.g. Helix, Orchestrade, Sophis, Calypso, Phase3)
• Working knowledge of Financial products (Bonds, Equities, Securitization)
• Strong knowledge of the Microsoft Suite (XL, Word, PowerPoint).
• Good oral, written & presentation skills

Skills & Knowledge Desired:

• Knowledge of US Regulations (FED BONY, DTCC, FICC Clearer role, 15A6 reporting) and European Regulations (DFA, EMIR, Volcker…)
• Ability to develop Macros

Relevant Information

• Languages skills: English
• Fluency in French highly desirable