Description
About Schroders
We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future. We have around 6,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.
The base
We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We're close to our clients, in the heart of the UK's financial centre. And we have everything we need to work flexibly.
Key Responsibilities
- Follow the change governance framework: Co-ordinate and help run the small change backlog for Reporting areas (specifically Client Reporting), including working with tech partners/vendors on their delivery roadmaps.
- Through impact assessment / gap analysis, create business requirements that allow the relevant forums to approve and prioritise change.
- Where applicable provide analysis support on larger projects to ensure reporting requirements are documented and accepted.
- Collaborate on solution design.
- Work with vendors and tech partners through the clear articulation of requirements to estimate and deliver small change.
- Ensure correct implementation of requirements (testing / operational readiness control gate).
- Document process flows and facilitate the creation of supporting procedures for new processes within Reporting Operations to ensure approved changes are delivered successfully from project into the reporting operations teams.
- Work with key stakeholder network on upcoming change.
- As and when required, attend regular service check ins with key stakeholders in Client Group.
- Provide coaching and direction to others in the team to align with good change governance and project artefacts.
What You'll Do
Reporting to the Head of Reporting Services, this role will have a Business Analysis focus with a flexible mindset working with all Reporting teams and key stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of Reporting change projects. The role will also be responsible for managing key stakeholder relationships across Client Group.
The role involves coordinating small changes onboarding maintenance for Reporting areas including Fund Reporting, Client Reporting, Statutory Reporting & Reporting Data. This includes triaging change requests producing feasibility summaries documenting requirements for approved changes working with tech partners & vendors delivering those changes acting as a proxy SME/Product Owner for reporting CTB projects collaboration solution design providing QA new changes.
The role requires someone who is analytical understands Client Reporting landscape is solution focused drives best outcome clients business team aligns innovative solutions identifies problems works resolve them end-to-end holds accountability appropriate reporting on change projects providing updates necessary stakeholders.
The Knowledge Experience And Qualifications You Need
- Stakeholder management: able engage gain confidence others maximise contribution
- Negotiation
- Technical product knowledge able discuss concepts vendors stakeholders
- Operational background preferably within client reporting
- Experience Microsoft applications
- Experience managing projects
- Good problem-solving skills
- Strong communication skills written pictorial presentational verbal levels organisation
- Experience creating MI report progress capture business benefits
- Able prioritise manage activities benefit business
- Able work under time pressure handle number tasks time
- Good working team other teams attention detail
- Able adapt approach different scenarios responsibilities focused clients delivery quality able demonstrate initiative
- Demonstrate innovative mindset generating ideas leverage technology improve processes efficiencies ability connect wider group operations strategy reporting service strategy
Discharge Of Responsibilities
The role holder shall ensure that all responsibilities performed highest levels integrity quality transparency manner likely promote success Schroders Group taking account interests key stakeholders including clients employees regulators suppliers society whole.
In discharging responsibilities individual shall establish appropriate oversight control structures areas under control needed.
Reporting Obligations
In discharging responsibilities role holder shall:
Ensure Head of Reporting Services made aware issues which Business Analyst deems material Provide Head of Report Services annual assessment own performance against objectives agreed
Committee Memberships
Where applicable role holder must fulfil his/her responsibilities Committee Memberships
Conduct Rules Required
This role within entity/or entities covered UK's Senior Manager Certification Regime As such role holder required comply following Individual Conduct Rules:
Rule 1: You must act integrity
Rule 2: You must act due skill care diligence
Rule 3: You must open cooperative FCA PRA any other regulators
Rule 4: You must pay due regard interests customers treat fairly
Rule 5: You must observe proper standards market conduct
We Recognise Potential Whoever You Are
Our purpose provide excellent investment performance clients through active management Diversity thought facilitated inclusive culture allow make better decisions better achieve purpose This why inclusion diversity strategic priority us why we equal opportunities employer You welcome here regardless age disability gender identity religious beliefs sexual orientation socio-economic background any other protected characteristic