Senior Business Analyst Level 1

Fund services | Corporate | Capital markets | Private client | Regulatory & Compliance

We help clients succeed by unlocking new value through expertise, trust and scale. We deliver solutions that solve complex challenges faced by asset managers, financial institutions, corporates, high net-worth individuals and family offices.

With a curious mindset, we ask the right questions to get to the right solution, faster. We collaborate to win together, sharing successes and shaping the future of our global business. Our culture of support and recognition provides the tools and opportunities for you to grow, while unlocking the most value for our clients and making your mark with Ocorian.

Expertise: We deliver specialist, tech-enabled solutions for our clients grounded on deep industry expertise.

Trust: We’re a trusted partner to over 8,000 clients globally. We are proud to have long-lasting partnerships with our clients.

Scale: With more than 1,500 colleagues, we operate across 20+ countries, our scale enables us to support our clients globally and locally, providing a seamless client experience across borders and service lines.

The role of a Senior Business Analyst is to work as part of a team to support Ocorian business through efficient and innovative use of technology. This role will help with identifying requirments, managing change and establishing best practice in global usage of IT systems across all Ocorian jurisdictions as the business grows.

The Senior Business Analyst will help to deliver high quality and consistent data, processes and reporting in all business areas through the use of technology including participating in associated projects to implement same.

This position requires a high level of cross-jurisdictional business awareness together with a firm understanding of the services offered by Ocorian and their commercial impact. It calls for a strong skill set covering system and data analysis, data management, spread-sheet working, document writing, reporting, project planning and business intelligence as well as operational and risk knowledge.

Main responsibilities

1. Work with the Business Partnering Team Lead and team to help identify and support the ongoing technology needs of the business.
2. Carry out business process, application, and data analysis across existing and potential new business applications to identify gaps, establish best practice and promote group-wide consistency. This includes working with colleagues across the business to identify, document and efficiently deliver the necessary objectives.
3. Identify opportunities to streamline and consolidate processes and applications. 
4. Prepare business requirements documents including specifications and deliverables according to business area and work with other project team members and suppliers to deliver programme change and manage testing required.
5. Promote and assist with the optimisation and capture of core client data to support the compliance and risk reporting models consistent with Group standards and initiatives.
6. Manage projects in line with the Ocorian programme management standards.
7. Analyse data held in core systems and make an assessment of the likely impact of data gaps or data quality issues on business processes.
8. Ensure change control & release management standards are always followed, including ensuring that all documentation is kept up to date.
9. Contribute to and maintain system and user guidance documentation including advice on best practice.
10. Be proactive, manage expectations and keep colleagues regularly updated on the progress of their changes and aware of anticipated timeframes for completion, including working with the wider Technology Team to manage conflicting priorities and maintain project tracking for regular project reporting.
11. Any other such duties that might be reasonably required for this role.

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1. 5+ years of experience in financial services business and software applications together with an interest in automation technology.
2. The ability to work logically and efficiently in a culturally diverse, collaborative multi-jurisdictional environment.
3. Strong project skills (PRINCE 2 or similar) with a proven track record of working in project teams with mixed skillsets and levels of technical knowledge while displaying professionalism and ability to win the respect of stakeholders.
4. Excellent organisational skills with ability to work effectively under pressure and experience of working to fixed deadlines with a results-oriented mindset and focus on driving growth and achieving tangible outcomes.
5. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions.
6. The role involves interactions at all levels/jurisdictions at Ocorian and with external parties so excellent interpersonal skills are essential including a high level of integrity together with strong written and oral communication skills.
7. Must be quick and effective with the ability to devise pragmatic innovative solutions where appropriate and the self-motivation to tackle complex tasks independently as well as part of a team.
8. A deep understanding of information security and compliance processes and the project lifecycle.
9. Some experience of supporting users within a technical and business environment.
10. Ability to understand and interpret reporting specifications would be an advantage.
11. A willingness to support the future growth and success of the group.

All staff are expected to embody our core values that underpin everything that we do and that reflect the skills and behaviours we all need to be successful.  These are:

• We are CLIENT CENTRIC – Clients are at the centre of our world, and we’re committed to providing expertise and specialist solutions to meet their most complex challenges.
• We are AMBITIOUS – We aim high. We think and act globally, seizing every opportunity to delight our clients and support our colleagues - wherever in the world they may be.
• We are AGILE – We act on our initiative to get things done for our clients. Our independence gives us the flexibility and freedom to keep things simple, efficient and effective.
• We are COLLABORATIVE – With a curious mindset, we ask the right questions to get to the right solution, for our clients faster. We collaborate to win together and share our successes.
• We are ETHICAL – We behave with integrity at all times and assume positive intent, building trust through responsible actions and honest relationships.