Business Analyst/Project Manager/Regulatory Change/Investment Banking

Senior Business Analyst duties, Investment Banking, Front Office, Internal consultancy/Consultancy change, Regulatory compliance (EMIR, MIFID 2), Client analytics/coverage, F-B organisational change, Information sec/Access Management, Business Risk, Offshoring/Outsourcing, Collateral Optimisation, Business TOM improvement, Broad Asset Class knowledge, Improving operational efficiency, Process change/BPR/BPM, Data, Control, Clearing,

My tier 1 Investment Banking client is looking to add to their Front Office driven and internally owned management consultancy division. The group is formed of both ex-management consultants and high level business change Investment Banking professionals. Cost saving is obviously part of the agenda, but this is more about formulating an internally owned team who are totally dedicated to all the business change and target operating model change programmes going on in the bank both now and in the future - looking at the Investment Banking landscape in 5 years, not just the next 3 years. Virtually all the programmes will be Front Office driven. You will carry out both delivery as well as Project Concept work and you will be included in business strategy meetings - heads of business. You will work on large scale, global change programmes, which will be cutting edge and highly relevant to the Investment Banking world currently. You need solid un-broken Investment banking experience (direct or via a consultancy - big 4/5 or niche) in the last 4-5 years. You will be charged in owning and running projects of work in a consulting manner - offering ideas, strategies and business options as to how projects may be approached in terms of delivery. You will need to work out who your COO/MD/D level stakeholders are and run projects from conception stage to delivery. You will partner along side the business stakeholders advising on impacts to the business locally, globally etc. and also the impacts on other business areas affected by the projects you are working on. You will need to provide solutions and approaches to projects. This is an opportunity to perhaps utilise a unique project specialism you have, which is relevant to the current book of work, but then use this as a spring board to get other more varied project roles within the wider book, once you have initially proved yourself.

Essential candidate requirements;
Solid Investment Banking experience in the last 4-5 years; Front Office facing project experience; Broad Asset Class knowledge; A structured project approach; Long term contract or permanent previous roles (ie not movement every 6-12 months)

Ideal candidate requirements;

Consultancy background

Essential requirements are that you have recently worked on projects in any of the following;

Strategic Controls; Data volume and qual improvement, External reviews/remediation, Clearing, Front-to-back Operational Efficiency improvement through revised Operating Models; Business and Operational Risk reduction; Regulatory Compliance (Volcker, Vickers, Dodd Frank, EMIR, MIFID 2 etc.); Information sec/Access Management; KYC/AML; Collateral Optimisation; Asset Class merging; Offshoring/Outsourcing; Personnel redundancy programmes/Internal moves; Record Retentions; Propriety Trading; BPR/BPM - business process change specialists

What is offered to the successful candidates;

Good contract lengths (contracts of 3+ years will likely be on offer to those successful); An chance to also be offered work in the Wealth Management division should you wish; Projects which will the hot topics' affecting all the of the Investment Banking world and therefore you will be exposed to the most attractive project work in the market.

Candidates will need to show;

- The value they added to the projects in which they worked
- Significant Stakeholder face-off
- Clear and succinct answers to questions - to ensure clear communication to stakeholders
- Clear about the stages of the projects you have joined
- Experience in actually driving change
- Self starter  
- Challenge the ways of working