Our client is a leading global equities trading firm with a sizeable presence in Sydney. They are seeking an experienced Business Analyst with finance related projects experience coming from financial services firms to work on a range of cross functional change projects across the business.

The finance work is heavily weighted towards system enhancements, new system implementation and process improvements

You will be part of a newly created team, that will have a cross-functional remit and be responsible for delivering change initiatives as well as several annual projects across the Finance, Operations and Risk areas.

The role is being offered as a temporary contract role initially for 6 months, but will very likely go permanent.  Initially paid on a daily rate depending on prior experience related to the role.

The team will be responsible for the planning, oversight and implementation of projects from ideation through to completion:

• Onboarding and Off-boarding of correspondents
• Implementation of new products and services including but not limited to:
  • Drafting of business requirements
  • Development of new procedures
  • Liaise with Technology
  • Business acceptance Testing
  • Post Implementation Review
  • Preparation of Business Acceptance Review Committee documents
• New system roll out and adoption
• Product Enhancements
• Process Improvement
• Responsibility to manage risk in change in accordance with the risk framework
• Annual User Access Audit
• Annual tax reporting obligations managed in Operations such as Common Reporting Standard, ATO Market Participant Reporting, and Annual Investment Income Return
• Monthly Management Committee and Steering Committee Reporting on progress of key initiatives

The ideal candidate has:

• Experience as a project manager or senior business analyst
• Exposure to a brokerage firm and/or equities trading operation
• Excellent attention to detail, strong work ethic
• Has a solid track record of driving successful initiatives to completion.
• Ability to be dynamic in a challenging environment