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Business Analyst, Operational Risk Change - Trading
We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst to work in the operational risk change team in Macquarie’s Commodities and Global Markets Group (CGM). We are establishing a global team to support the operational risk transformation program. This BA role will be supporting CGM businesses in North America. Separate BAs provide coverage in EMEA and APAC.
The Business Analyst will work with business managers, operational risk managers and data analysts to transform processes, practices and systems to enhance operational risk and reduce risk of unauthorized trading, with a focus on managing processing of cancelled, amended and backdated trades (CABs).
Our commodity's department is currently implementing a major transformation program to enhance operational risk and reduce risk of unauthorized trading. A key focus of this delivery is to establish a global team responsible for working with a diverse set of businesses across asset classes (commodities, FX, fixed income, credit) to implement a platform and processes to control and monitor CABs.
The work will be wide-ranging, covering elicitation and documentation of business requirements, collaborating with a delivery team of technologists and data analysts to design and implement solutions whilst working across system dependencies. You have a key role to play in documenting operational processes and leveraging technology to automate and digitize processes.
Key responsibilities include collating business requirements to:
- Ensure completeness of CABs data set for all businesses in scope.
- Categorize CABs, to ensure a risk-based approach to analyze CABs data.
- Proposing a Straight-Through-Process to reduce number of routine CABs generated as part of the product life cycle.
- Provide trend analysis and visualization of CABs data for review by supervisors.
- Perform end-to-end testing of the CABs data flow and analytics.
You will work within an agile project team to deliver enhancements, strategic projects, and operational improvements to meet business needs. Project delivery will be led by a delivery team located in Singapore, Sydney. London and Geneva.
Successful candidates will thrive in a fast-paced delivery environment and draw on collaborative and problem-solving skills to achieve optimal outcomes for our stakeholders. You will have experience in co-ordination of peers to support implementation and achieve team deliverables.
The role offers significant exposure to CGM’s global trading business and an opportunity to develop a deep understanding of operational risk management.
To excel in this role, you will:
- Have about 6 years of experience within financial services, preferably with knowledge of operational risk, in a data analyst or operations role.
- Have experience working with traders and business managers to understand trade capture activities, document use cases and find ways of applying technology to automate and transform processes.
- Be familiar with tools for data analytics.
- Have excellent stakeholder management skills and experience in delivery co-ordination across stakeholders.
- Be adept in engaging, collaborating, and communicating with both business and technical peers, across offices and time zones.
- Be flexible and adapt easily in a dynamic environment.
- Have a strong sense of ownership to follow your deliverables through to closure.
- Have experience working within an agile scrum team environment and working towards hard deadlines.
- Have clear communication skills, be detail-oriented and organized.
- Experience with commodities asset class, such as gas, power and oil, including physical delivery would be a significant advantage.
About Commodities and Global Markets
In Commodities and Global Markets you will be part of a global business offering capital and financing, risk management, market access, physical execution and logistics solutions to a diverse client base.
Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces diversity, equity and inclusion. As an inclusive employer, Macquarie does not discriminate on the grounds of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, race (including color and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief.
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