Finance Reporting Expert/Finance Business Architect - BFSI

The Finance Business Architect is accountable for supporting specific initiatives as part of the overall finance regulatory reporting. This will include:

- Working with Regulatory Reporting and Risk teams to understand and document current and target data flows and processes;

- Translating business requirements into user stories or functional design specifications to support technology development of RDH, data and process change;

- Analysing data to support data sourcing design;

- Preparing topics for review with Finance, Project & Technology stakeholders;

- Documenting elements in support of data taxonomy, reference data and calculations;

- Design test plans and operational change controls;

- Support testing execution and reporting

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

- Financial services experience, within retail and/or investment banking;

- Knowledge of Finance process, system and technologies;

- Appreciation of data principles, including data modelling and data design;

- Experience of finance transformation programs and/or system implementation programs.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

- Excellent PowerPoint skills,

- Strong data manipulation skills including Excel & experience using one or more data manipulation tools (Qlikview, Business Objects, Lumira, Smart View, Hive, Python, SQL, SAS);

- Written and verbal communication skills, including influencing and negotiating with a broad set of stakeholders, often with conflicting priorities;

- Finance process experience relevant to the role