Axiom Business Analyst - based anywhere - remote in EMEA

Project Description:

Client is one of the well-established UK based financial service provider. They are in the process of implementing Axiom as strategic regulatory reporting solution for UK and Europe regulatory reports.

This position is fully remote, open to work anywhere globally.

Responsibilities:

Taking up the role of Business Analyst to ensure end to end (E2E) implementation across 6 new solutions:

• Retail Mediation Activities Returns (RMAR)
• Investment Firm Prudential Regime (IFPR) Returns
• Pillar 3 Disclosures
• BoE PRA Returns
• PRA Capital+
• Funding Plan

Support the following processes:

Discovery & Assessment:

• Participate in and review Nasdaq Discovery.
• Assess common tables, enrichments, and further data sourcing changes.
• Document specifications for common tables, enrichments, further data sourcing changes, and new files.

Data Generation & Test:

• Work with Data Analysts to complete scripts and produce necessary files.
• Ensure files load into the system and generate expected results in templates.

Data Reconciliation:

• Reconcile data on returns (or common data tables) with existing AWR returns.
• Reconcile data with the General Ledger (GL) across all solutions
• Address gaps in AWR returns and determine acceptable values from Axiom.

Elaboration of the key tasks:

• Conduct deep dives with client's Data Analysts (DA's) to identify data differences and establish remediation plans (short + medium term).
• Identify mapping differences between all 3 parties (Business Analysts, Testers and Nasdaq product team)
• Analyse with Axiom and Luxoft to determine if there are configuration issues in the solution.
• Analyse with Nasdaq to identify any product issues.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• Prior BA experience with Adenza solutions on Finrep, Corep and Liquidity Report
• 5+ years of working experience out of which at least 3 years in Axiom
• Equipped with the technical expertise to help client address challenges in implementation (driven based on good understanding of regulatory, regulatory guidance, integrating new returns and products form internal systems to third party Reg service providers (abacus, adenza etc))
• Extensive experience working in Agile environment with ability to adapt quickly and work under pressure
• Ability to drive results keeping the long-term strategy as the focus.
• Ability to think strategically, see the big picture and quickly grasp complex dependencies
• Ability to focus on continuous improvement, cascading the values to the team
• Ability to clearly communicate complex technical ideas, regardless of the technical capacity of the audience
• Strong facilitation skills, presenting technical information to diverse non‐technical stakeholders and engaging with senior executives.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build and maintain positive relationships at every level of the organisation
• Ability to build, motivate and grow effective teams

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• SQL related automation and strong reconciliation experience
• Experience working in start ups and working in challenging environment with conflicting KPIs