Business Analyst, Technology - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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About this role

Elevate your career by joining the world's largest asset manager Would you thrive in an environment that fosters positive relationships and recognizes outstanding performance? We know how important it is to feel valued every single day and be recognized foryour contribution.

At BlackRock, we strive to empower our employees and effectively engage your involvement in our success.

With over $8 trillion of assets we have an outstanding responsibility:

our technology and services empower millions of investors tosave for retirement, pay for college, buy a home and improve their financial well-being.

Job Purpose/ Background

The EMEA Technology and Operations Regulatory Change (TORC) team reports into the EMEA Head of Technology and Operations and is responsible for ensuring operational readiness for incoming regulatory change impacting the function.

As well as leadership of changeprograms, the team is responsible for the management of horizon scanning, impact assessment and communication of incoming regulations impacting teams across the function.

By partnering with T&O functional teams as well as functions across the firm, the teamhelp to ensure that an appropriate operating model is in place to meet regulatory requirements on an ongoing basis.

This role will include supporting project objectives, potentially supporting/running workstreams and tracking progress against objectives.

Key is the ability to build positive relationships across the operating platforms, simplify the messaging of requirements,and work with teams to ensure that operating models meet regulatory expectations.

The role requires deep dives into relevant regulation working with Senior BA - s to articulate impact at a high level for T&O and more detailed level for supporting functionalbusiness processes.

We place tremendous focus on empowering and developing our people, improving their leadership and delivery skills and broadening their firm and industry knowledge.

This role provides the opportunity for an individual to lead and drive significant change acrossthe EMEA T&O function.

Responsibilities:

Work with a small team which will assess and coordinate the program of incoming regulation impacting the EMEA T&O function
Conduct analysis of data and business processes to validate how the regulation applies to BlackRock s operating & technology platform, capturing current and future impact operating models, ensuring close alignment to regulatory interpretation guidancefrom Legal & Compliance
Simplify complex regulatory topics, ensuring the T&O impact assessment is clearly articulated and communicated to stakeholders
Ensure key issues and risks are being identified and appropriately raised through appropriate individual workstreams and captured into overall project
Document findings and convert them into clear, specific technology and business process requirements documents, collaborating with technology and business team partners to drive consensus
Use creativity and initiative to develop high impact, multi level materials/artefacts for communication with senior management to help with decision making.
Support Change leaders and Project Managers to capture and develop project plans with measurable goals, gather updates from key business partners, drive consensus and communicate plans and results to stakeholders/management

About you

3+ years of experience in asset management or financial services
Familiarity with asset management middle and backoffice functions and an understanding of regulatory impact
Unending curiosity to learn endtoend business processes and get into the details of all the possible ways in which the underlying systems can be used by those processes
Confidence that you will thrive on multiple fastpaced and highprofile projects simultaneously
Strong collaboration skills and experience of working crossfunctionally and with individuals at all levels of seniority
Flexibility to accommodate changing priorities across projects and portfolios and be able to bring a positive and creative approach to problem solving
Ability to work effectively on your own as well as within a team
A reputation as a good/flexible communicator (Written, verbal and visual) and the ability to distil sophisticated concepts and information
Excellent attention to detail and a strong drive to succeed
A consultancy back ground or experience performing analysis of multiple different models, functions and environments
A keen interest in the evolving ESG/sustainability regulatory landscape in Europe and the UK is a bonus (e.g., SFDR, TCFD, SDR, etc.) as well as other up coming regulations (eg. DORA)
Experience creating business process flows/ target operating models, using tools such as Visio or Signavio
Strong in MS Office skills
PowerPoint, Excel, Word; experience with Smartsheet is a plus

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources tosupport your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock - s current hybrid work model is designed to enable in-person connections and collaboration that is core to our culture, while supporting increased flexibility for all employees.

In line with local health guidance and regulations, employees are requiredto work at least 3 days in the office each week, with the flexibility to work from home up to 2 days a week.

Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. The health, safety and well-being of our people willalways be our top priorities; we will continue to monitor local con