IT Business Analyst

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure that all new trade bookings and trade amendments are accurately reflected on various trading platforms and updated to properly reflect life cycle events (expiry, reset, dividend, Corporate Actions).
• Take on a leadership role and liaise with the trading desk and bank stakeholders (Accounting, P&L, Market Risk, VPC, Audit etc.) to ensure that new product setups and downstream flows are accurately set up.
• Act as a 1st line of defense to ensure that appropriate controls are in place to reduce operational risk, as well as to corroborate adherence to the Approved Product List.
• Work closely with IT / PD to automate transactions workflow and create robust trade booking and trade activity monitoring tools.
• Participate in system migration and enhancement projects- conduct UAT testing and assess the impact of trade bookings on Market risk and P&L impact on trading books.
• Proactively investigate and resolve position, trade, and payment discrepancies.
• Responsible for completion of EOD process including completeness and reconciliation checks.
• Ensure all procedure documents are in place and up to date.

Risk & Control

• Identify potential risk situations within the scope of Global Trade Support activities, escalating to management as required.
• Ensure adherence to directives, internal processes, and internal approvals to mitigate risk to the Bank.
• Understand regulatory and compliance requirements as prescribed for the business unit to ensure adherence as required.
• Ensure adherence to all aspects of FirstPrinciples, Our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics Corporate Policy, as well as all applicable legislation, regulatory rules and requirements, and Bank standards, policies, and procedures (P&Ps) for such things as potential conflicts of interest, safeguarding of customer information, trading in securities, anti-money laundering, privacy, and disclosure of outside business activities.
• Ensure strict confidentiality is maintained for both customer and Bank information to protect the customer and the Bank and to ensure compliance with Bank P&Ps.
• Contribute to testing and updating of contingency planning to support the business and maintain continuity of critical processes throughout a contingency event.
• Contribute to ensuring all procedures/standards of team(s) are documented and regularly reviewed and updated as needed in accordance with market best practice guidelines and industry regulations.

Business Performance Management

• Identify opportunities to improve the operational effectiveness of assigned day-to-day Global Trade Support activities.
• Deliver exceptional customer service that builds trust through responsive, accurate, consistent, knowledgeable, and available services and support.
• Develop excellent working relationships with Capital Markets Trading Products desks, Product Operations, and other stakeholder groups ensuring we have a global view across the business.
• Align individual performance goals to the team.
• Demonstrate behaviors that are consistent with “the client" Managerial Leadership (where applicable).