21 Oct
CER Financial
City of London
Job description
Job Description
Business Analyst AVP Loans Operations
Canary Wharf / Hybrid
Contract
cer Financial are working alongside a bank who are based in the Canary Wharf, who are seeking an AVP level Business Analyst to work with them on a contract supporting their Operations department with a focus on Loan processes.
In this role you will be responsible for creating and documenting detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities, and solutions, specially focused on the syndicated loan execution process.
The Responsibilities of a Business Analyst AVP Will Include :
- End to End process mapping across the department.
- Works with SME / s and end users to understand and document the practical implications for all associated systems and processes.
- Responsible for documenting business requirements, process flows, impact assessments to work with Management to create a target operating model, including technical revisions and updates, and building or updating a Traceability Matrix (if required)
- Communicates with internal colleagues to understand the current practice and processes of departments and the organisation, to identify where change is required, then analyse and provide recommendations re the optimal approach, communicate the preferred approach across stakeholders and gather consensus to support and provide documentation to support.
- Identify and document the processes, system changes and timescales required to introduce changes and ensure the correct governance of the change process.
- Work closely with the SME / s to appraise senior stakeholders, to communicate potential impact of change on the service, function or system / s highlighting the options, impact,
and potential links between required changes on the existing infrastructure so that well informed decisions can be made.
- Communicate clearly within a multi-disciplinary team, gain consensus for the best solution, and implement the required changes to maintain compliance with regulation and / or gain efficiencies.
Ensure that the benefits of changes and recommendations are made clear to the relevant departments and to senior stakeholders and address any uncertainty and concern.
Support and involve the appropriate staff and teams in the QA, testing and delivery of changes, including helping to resolve any issues.
The Successful Business Analyst Will Have :
- SME knowledge of the end-to-end syndicated loan life cycle as well as a good understanding of commercial banking products.
- Beneficial to have previous exposure to market leading loan syndicated platforms.
- Operational technical expertise is preferable to analyse and document current state / future state and the impact of change on the bank’s business processes and related system infrastructure, this is an operation business role not an IT based BA role.
- The individual must have a good grounding and understanding of current banking processes, products and ideally banking and capital markets regulation.
- Able to produce gap analysis / requirements, workflows and high-quality business requirement documents covering current and future state proposals.
- Expertise in banking products,
prior experience of providing regulatory analysis and business requirements documentation.
- Understanding or experience of business analysis software packages and systems highly advantageous.
- Proven ability to analyse current and future regulatory or business requirements and translate them into practical implications for specific processes and systems.
▶️ Business Analyst – AVP – Loans Operations
🖊️ CER Financial
📍 City of London