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The Stride Programme provides Finance, IT and Risk & Operations professionals the opportunity to deliver fundamental change in the way financial reporting risk is managed across the Bank.

The advertised roles form part of the DBP Data Sourcing (DDS) initiative within the Stride Programme.

Key Responsibilities  

 The requirement is for a business analyst with investment banking Finance experience, who has worked on large scale projects and programmes of work, across multiple business areas. The project is principally to work with core divisions within Finance and Operations to articulate business requirements.  This will involve working with stakeholders and SMEs.

You will be required to work with other work streams in Stride, Operations, Transaction Management, Risk, IT and other groups to ensure consistent definitions.

 Your responsibilities will be to:

• Successfully support the project Subject Matter Experts and Analysts to ensure the appropriate control is applied across the work stream and the relevant documentation is maintained
• Form a successful partnership with Global Business Service (GBS), Finance Change, IT and other resources, to collaborate and facilitate issue resolution to ensure progress remains on track
• Work closely with project SMEs, Analysts and Business stakeholders, to ensure priorities are identified and successfully met, and key dependencies are managed
• Work with the Project Management and parallel work streams to communicate relevant information and ensure consistent and best-practice standards are enforced
• Work proactively to identify, prioritise and complete tasks without significant guidance
• Implement best practice project management approach and ensure control is maintained across the work stream
• Track decisions and assumptions and log issues and risks
• Conduct high-level planning and status reporting
• Instill communication channels to release planning teams on progress, issues and risks
• Establish and chair workshops meetings with GBS, Finance Change and regional Business and IT teams