Business Projects – Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager
- Dublin
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead cross-functional, global planning with Legal, Trading, Operations, Technology, Compliance and Risk teams and Interact with external counterparties (e.g. trading exchanges, brokers and counterparties) as required.
- Define project scope and solution; Translating requirements into actionable project roadmaps and key deliverables. working closely with stakeholders to ensure transparency and buy-in across the business areas.
- Provide regular concise and informative communication to stakeholders inclusive of project status reports and dashboards, meeting minutes and executive reports and presentations.
- Take end users and senior business project sponsors through the process of defining business requirements for software developments.
- Take ownership of the translation of business requirements into functional specifications.
- Coordinate teams to facilitate the execution of deliverables, guiding their activities to ensure project objectives are met.
- Drive prioritisation and resource alignment to ensure timely execution of high-impact initiatives
- Successfully manage the relationship between all stakeholders and third parties.
- Take a lead role in working with developers and testers to ensure requirements are fulfilled.
- Working with end users during user review and UAT.
- Perform risk management to minimize project risk; Documenting and track any open issues for stakeholders and project teams.
- A self-starter with initiative to independently drive projects to successful delivery.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly report project status to stakeholders at all levels.
- A strong collaborator who can work across business and technical teams to understand, implement, and guide project requirements.
- A strategic thinker who can evaluate project needs and select the right tools, methodologies, and approaches.
- A persistent, detail-oriented, and delivery-focused mindset.
- A curious mindset with the ability to analyse, diagram, and explain complex systems, processes, and data flows
- Flexibility to manage multiple projects with varying timelines and the ability to pivot quickly when priorities shift
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment and familiar with agile methodologies
- A minimum of 6 years project management and business analyst experience within Financial Services industry.
- A thorough understanding of operational trade flows (i.e., trade economics, trading platforms, venues and exchanges, operational, legal, compliance and regulatory considerations etc.) across at least 2 or more of Exchange traded Equities, ETFs, Options or Futures products.
- Proven project management and analyst experience delivering key business and technology initiatives within a trading environment, with a demonstrated record of systems delivery participating in all aspects of requirements, design, QA, Support and UAT and production go-live.
- Strong leadership, planning, estimation, and risk management skills with the ability to work independently.
- Excellent communication (both oral and written) and organizational skills.
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies, SQL and relational databases.
- Must be proficient with Microsoft Office applications including Word and Excel; experience utilizing applications such as Visio and Microsoft Project.