Job Description

Looking for a motivated individual who is driven & capable of leading analysis while providing thought leadership for a major workstream or POD for an enterprise change program

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* Consults with stakeholders to analyze, define, challenge and prioritize the business requirements, functional specifications and operational architecture for a functional work stream within a highly complex strategic, global program.
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* Formulates and defines program scope and objectives for the work stream with thorough understanding of business processes in a specific business domain.
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* Tailors standard processes and templates for team to elicit, challenge, and prioritize requirements, and translates into functional design and use case models.
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* Develops project scope, objectives, constraints and assumptions for a large, strategic, multi-year program.
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* Prepares and manages the project plan, issues and risks, and is accountable for overall delivery of their assigned functional work stream on a large-scale program. Provides guidance in development of the technical design, test plans, and user documentation.
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* Leads implementation/conversion strategy planning and implementation.
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* Manages scope and change throughout the initiative utilizing formal change control and requirements traceability.
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* Gathers and analyzes information and develops recommendations to address strategic business objectives that span multiple, global business and technology areas.
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* Participates in industry forums and keeps current on domain knowledge for their specific business and application areas of expertise.
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* Applies experiences across various software and/or systems development processes to define and collect metrics and identify and implement opportunities for improvement to increase quality of requirements and speed time-to-market.
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* Actively influences software and/or systems development process improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

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* Bachelor's degree in business or technical-related discipline, or equivalent work experience required, advanced degree preferred,
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* 8-10 years of experience in providing consulting advice to senior IT and business management required, experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.
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* Experience with writing business & functional specs as well as participating in design discussions and assisting with testing where required
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* Experience with enterprise change programs with the ability to drive change while completing detailed analysis
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* Experience with data analytics a plus
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* Ability to drive discussions with Ops, Tech & the business to ensure strategic changes are being suggested and implemented
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* Experience with internal audit & following typical project management guidelines and procedures
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* Experience with agile project management a plus