Trade Finance Consultant/Business Analyst - London - Misys TI Plus/TI

Trade Finance Consultant/Business Analyst - London - Misys TI Plus/TI Plus/Trade Innovation

Strong Business Analyst, with consulting and change management experience in Debt/Trade Finance Products in Corporate/Wholesale Banking is required for a major Financial consultancy working with a Bank in London. As the Functional BA you must have a good understanding of Trade Finance business processes and core trade finance instruments such as Letters of Credit, Guarantees and Standbys etc and Trade Finance SWIFT messages is essential, allied to an understanding of more recent Trade Finance product developments, regulatory change and wider Transaction Banking.

As the Business Analyst/Consultant you must have strong in working on one of more Debt/Trade Finance COTS products (such as Misys TI Plus/TI +, Misys Loan-IQ, CSI-BankTrade, CGI-Trade Manager or ACBS from FIS) will be an added advantage.

You'll work with business and IT teams to provide leadership, define requirements (including in Use Case format and describing the interaction between users and systems, and leveraging tools such as RRC), re-engineer business processes (using a variety of techniques) and implement lasting solutions.

Experience:

1. Domain expertise in Trade Finance (must have exposure to TI Plus/TI +)

2. Project and consulting experience, ideally in the UK Corporate/Wholesale Banking marketplace.

3. Capability to advise customers on defining problem statements, an approach to deliver solutions, and the ability to develop and present compelling value propositions.

4. Experience in interacting with the business, requirements gathering and elicitation, preparation of business and functional specifications and the ability to work with technology teams. Experience in the development of interface requirements is valuable. Experienced in business process modelling, Datamodelling and the development of business cases. Exposure to Target Operating Model design.

5. Very good analytical skills, communication skills (both verbal and written), very good stakeholder management skills and the ability to work in large teams, as well as the ability to lead small consulting and business analysis teams.