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The Cash Equity Middle Office consists of circa 60 people and supports five trading locations - Paris, London, New York, Hong Kong and Madrid.
The current focus is on the Middle Office to enhance and re-engineer processes to better meet the needs and support a substantial increase in business. The three main areas of Middle Office consist of Product Control, Trade Flow Support and Static Data.
The role requires an individual with a strong knowledge of Securities Operations line (e.g. a background on the operations line is likely) and with substantial Change Management experience. Ideal candidates will have experience of business process modelling and re-engineering approaches. The role will involve close working with business stakeholders and with system/business analysts.
The role will primarily be to manage all the projects which are related to OPER/GED/MID/CAR. Guidance will come from Middle Office Management and other stakeholders, however the ability to work on a number of different projects in an efficient and timely manner is key.
There are currently 2 permanent people reporting directly into this role. In addition the person will be responsible for coordinating and following up with various consultants who are working on behalf of OPER/CAR globally. Seen annex for current organisation.
Main responsibilities:
• Business Process Improvement analysis.
• Follow up projects to ensure delivery on time and budget.
• Represent OPER/GED/MID/CAR in steering committees.
• Manage the project portfolio.
• Ensure processes are designed to meet or exceed client requirements, whilst delivering on business and other stakeholder requirements.
• Planning of prospective projects/system enhancements.
• Pro-actively take the lead in new initiatives.
• Discussing/explaining issues/processes to the Front Office/IT/Middle Office/ Back Office.
• Project management (PMO).
• Test script production and coordination of UAT Testing (QA).
• Manage the change management process for Operations.
• Coordination of regression testing.
• Production of ad-hoc Business Objects reports.
Level of authority:
Autonomy to manage projects to his/her own specification.
Autonomy to manage the team.
Autonomy to make decisions in the project life cycle.
Internal & external contacts:
• Different business lines across all locations.
• Different Operations teams across all locations.
• Different Accounting and Finance teams across all locations.
• Different IT teams across all locations.
• External clients where appropriate.
• Internal/External service providers.
Specific context:
• Global coordination role with responsibilities in all locations.
• Short term travel to various locations will be required.
• Multicultural team with varied background.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Past experience:
• Extensive operational experience and somebody looking for a varied role covering all aspects of an operational environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively with IT, explain processes and be comfortable with technical issues.
Languages:
• Fluent English
• Fluent French
Technical skills:
• Good general system skills.
• Ability to write Business User requirements, being able to clearly articulate user requirements to facilitate functional analyst in IT to produce functional specs.
• Detailed functional knowledge of cash equities middle and back office processes for European markets and demonstrate ability to question existing processes.
• Demonstrate ability to work closely with IT throughout the lifecycle of each project to ensure designs are delivered to specification.
• General knowledge of the European settlement systems/ current market initiatives.
• Excel to macro level.
• MS Access, Powerpoint.
• Fidessa/FDA.
• Gloss.
• Business Objects.
• Experience of data management/manipulation.
• Knowledge of Swift messaging.
Personal abilities:
• Self starter/team player.
• Organised with the ability to prioritise.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to run with issues, work with autonomy and work on several projects simultaneously in an ordered manner. |
