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About the Role

Join our team and help our top private banking client to revolutionise their data management processes! We are seeking a skilled Business Analyst with Data Quality Issue Management and Financial Services experience to lead and support our client in the identification, design, implementation, and embedding of new data issue management practices.

As a seasoned Business Analyst, you will be working in the Data Management team and report into a Lead Business Analyst, responsible for designing the Target Operating Model to specify deliverables and recommend ways of working for the following areas: organizational structure, capability and capacity planning, roles and responsibilities, service and process design, technology and tooling, benefits, measures, and key metrics. You will also work closely with our client’s senior leaders and stakeholders across the business, including Data Governance, Legal, Compliance, and Finance.

Your role will involve scoping project areas, managing the unexpected, and ensuring all impacts of change and new ways of working are covered. You will have excellent analysis, change management, communication, and business transformation skills, and you will confidently and diplomatically manage stakeholders while gently coaching and sharing your knowledge.

If you have Financial Services experience and a passion for data management and process improvement, this is an excellent opportunity to lead a small team of Business Analysts and be part of a project that will shape the future of our client’s data management practices. Join us now and make a difference!

• Work in a team of Business Analysts to define and achieve client objectives and deliverables
• Create, define and implement data-related guidelines, framework, control standards, handbooks, and instructions
• Successfully create and obtain buy-in and sign-off of a new target operating model
• Generate and deliver education and awareness of data management across the bank
• Successfully create a transition plan in readiness for implementation
• Ability to lead complex discussions / facilitate workshops with project stakeholders
• Document data requirements aligned to in-flight and new projects
• Lead delivery on data mapping, conversion, and migration activities to support in-flight projects
• Coordinate project teams, planning resource and task allocation
• Manage all aspects of risks and issue management supporting services
• Report on Data Framework compliance, identifying relevant KPIs and KRIs and Assurance
• Define, implement, operate and report on End User Developed Applications (EUDA) control framework and inventory
• Track project performance, reporting regularly to stakeholders
• Ensure team members are provided with support and tools to successfully complete tasks
• Manage Change Requests within the project, ensuring impact assessments have been undertaken and communicated to stakeholders in an efficient and effective manner
• Operate the Data Compass processes
• Lead the design of data quality controls
• Coordinate testing and transition activities for new data quality controls
• Monitor progress
• Track RAID items
• Quality assure deliverables

Requirements

Essential skills and experience:

Proven experience of Business Analysis specifically in data management

Extensive experience of process mapping, design and implementation within Data Management

Proficient in using Business Process Modelling Tools (Visio or equivalent) and MS Office Suite

Experience of business process re-engineering and operating model design within Financial Services

Strong experience in defining data management frameworks and control standards

Good attention to detail / quality mindset, strong analytical approach

Strong influencing and networking skills, ability to develop internal / external business relationships, uses knowledge, skills, and experience to influence others

A passion for collaboration and driving customer experience

Experience in creating and influencing new ways of working, frameworks, and models

Project Partners are looking for a good all-round Data Governance Analyst who has been there, seen it, and delivered it! Someone who has worked on a variety of projects where they have led from start to finish in a range of organisations and sectors, ideally Financial Services. Someone who exudes confidence without arrogance, who is able to articulate issues and looks for solutions, who is able to adapt to different organisational cultures and client bases and someone the client can instantly have confidence in.

Desirable skills and experience:

Experience of both agile and waterfall methodologies

Worked for a variety of organisations

Key Skills

Multitask

Employment Type: Full Time

Department / Functional Area: Engineering