Location Address: Work from Home (Toronto, if restrictions lifted)
Contract Duration: 07/09/2021 to 04/02/2022 – 6 months
Story Behind the Need
• Business group: The group mandate is to maintain and enhance the Consolidated Transaction Repository (CTR), a centralized data hub for end-of-day capital markets transaction and position data. This data is normalized and fed downstream to various consumers for reporting (chiefly risk, but also some regulatory).
• Project: This candidate will be focused on a system integration projects related to the provision of capital markets trading data (foreign exchange, fixed income, equities, repos & Interest Rate Derivatives) to CTR from bank subsidiaries in Latin America. The candidate would be expected to be the key resource for the CTR team on these tasks, sharing requirements, and documenting any new processes required within CTR as part of the projects, and working with the CTR development team on any new code required within CTR for implementation. They would also be responsible for arranging testing within CTR, as well as coordinating with any outside affected teams to enable their own testing. They would also need to be the key representative to the Latam IT teams and business participants in the projects to help answer and questions and clarify requirements etc.
Candidate Value Proposition
• The successful candidate will have the opportunity to build long lasting relationships within Canadian and Global Markets. This candidate will be a key driver in ensuring stakeholders communication with the IT team is streamlined.
Typical Day in Role
• Collaborates with business partners, sometimes including senior management, to define business objectives, process, and requirements
• Within the context of the project, collaborates on and sometimes leads discussions with business partners to better understand the business environment, to determine potential impacts on the project scope and objectives, and to modify the requirements management plan, if required
• Builds, sustains, and leverages relationships with individuals within his/her area of immediate responsibility when gathering, validating, and approving requirements to establish a comfort level in managing relationships and understanding business needs and assurance that a quality result will be delivered
• Determines the best approach for eliciting, analyzing, validating, and prioritizing requirements to ensure that the necessary information is captured from the relevant stakeholders to address the business needs
• Identifies and documents project requirements in order to capture required outcomes and ultimately support the business’s overall objectives
• Adheres to and ensures that others adhere to the organization’s Requirements Management Process to support the organizational standards and ensure consistency of deliverables
• Ensures all necessary stakeholders are engaged in communications between the Information Technology (IT) project team and the business to help identify who should be involved in the identification and development of the requirements
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) Spanish Speaking Resources are strongly preferred
2) 5 – 7 years business analysis experience, supporting medium to large sized projects
3) 4 + years’ experience of the Wholesale Banking/Finance industry – integration data projects are a plus, particularly for Securities, FX & IR Derivatives data (e.g. FX, FI, Equities, Repos & IR Swaps)
4) Project experience with capital markets data initiatives
5) Basic SQL / Unix skills
Soft Skills:
1) Excellent communication skills – successful candidate demonstrates good writing and documentation skills
2) Excellent relationship building skills – can communicate with varying stakeholders at multiple levels in different situations (e.g., one-on-one interviews, formal requirements gathering sessions, etc.)
3) Possesses good influencing and negotiating skills
Degrees or certifications:
• Bachelor's degree required, preferably in a finance-related field (Economics, Finance, etc) or technical (Computer Science, Engineering etc)
Nice-to-have skills:
-Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder
-MBA (or equivalent Master’s degree)
-Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designation
-Project Management Professional (PMP)
-Certified Scrum Master (CSM)