Senior Forecasting Analyst
PlanetArt
PythonSQLTableau
Asset Manager – Change and Transformation Delivery Lead
Phoenix Group
full-time
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Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
Tech Stack
PythonTableau
About the role
- Lead, oversee and co-ordinate the engineering backlog, working with the product owner assigned to the Capital Markets delivery team(s).
- Support and challenge to ensure ways of working are fully adopted and analysis activities completed in line with sprint plans.
- Develop strong relationships with key business stakeholders and other colleagues to elicit requirements and subsequently update on requirements evolution in a business focused way.
- Support and host discussions within a multidisciplinary team, with potentially difficult dynamics.
- Support the project manage(s) / delivery managers(s) to regularly asses the progress and effectiveness of the discovery and analysis effort, taking interventions as needed to deliver work to agreed timescales and quality.
- Create artefacts supporting agile ways of working e.g. user stories with acceptance criteria (JIRA)
- Create and maintain good quality stores of business knowledge and information (JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint etc
- Work with the product owner to prioritise the backlog
- Support delivery teams by communicating effectively within an agile delivery framework
- Identify and document risks, issues and dependencies that are likely to affect the delivery of requirements
- Support the development of sustainable, commercially viable change solutions with clear linkages to Asset Management goals and objectives – end to end (i.e. discovery, analysis/design, build, test and business readiness)
- Provide oversight and advice to other team members involved in the delivery of data and reporting solutions
- Share knowledge and education amongst the Business Analyst community and wider teams
- Manage the workload for the squad driving effective and efficient delivery of work packages.
- Provide timely, accurate and transparent MI that enables the throughput of the squad be managed an provide a key input into work scheduling and where appropriate prioritisation.
Requirements
- Significant years working in the Asset management, banking, pensions and finance / asset management industry and highly regulated environments.
- front-office experience and Aladdin ecosystem
- Delivery hands on experience – working closely with Front Office / Quant teams to ensure successful outcomes.
- Direct experience with datasets relating to investment, asset data, including derivatives i.e. trade lifecycle
- Experience working with Front, Middle and Back Office teams to gather and interpret business process and technical requirements
- Understanding of the key concepts of Technical Engineering
- Relevant experience working as part of an agile team – end to end i.e. discovery, analysis/design, build, test and business readiness
- Experience engaging with third party vendors and collaborating on joint technology solutions
- Great stakeholder management and engagement skills
- Excellent communication, influencing and facilitation skills, in particular for problem solving and troubleshooting activities, ability to communicate effectively in a technical and non-technical ways.
- Ability to demonstrate resilience, flexibility and adapt to changing schedules and priorities
- Experience of using Microsoft office tools to an advanced standard
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies and tooling to support agile delivery of projects (e.g. Jira/Confluence)
- Experience in modern ways of working (examples include Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, Test Automation)
- Understanding of data concepts e.g. Data Management/Governance
- Understanding of architecture and design concepts for data exploitation solutions
- Experience using technologies includes Analytics (E.g. R & Python), Reporting (E.g. Quicksight, Tableau, Qlik, Power BI) & APIs
- Demonstrable expertise in the areas of business analysis in large complex IT estates
- Membership of a professional body
- Degree in Computer Science, Technology or Engineering or similar
- Customer focused with an attitude to deliver excellent customer outcomes through technical expertise
- Problem solving, analytics and resolution skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively across teams
- Ability to operate in cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams
- Ability to learn new technologies. Continuously strives to learn and make time for self-development.
