Business Strategist

This Business Strategy role requires a skilled and experienced professional to support the Corporate and Investment Banking Markets business.

The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Participating in planning and executing various programs, services, and initiatives, monitoring key indicators for effective performance and control management of assigned operations or business groups.
• Reviewing basic initiatives including policy or process changes, process improvements, technology enhancements, and conducting regular reviews to identify efficiencies and cost savings opportunities.
• Receiving direction from leaders and exercising independent judgement while developing an understanding of policies and procedures, best practices, and initiatives.
• Collaborating and consulting with mid-level managers or cross-functional business partners.
• Providing work direction to less experienced Strategy and Execution staff.
• Being part of the front-line Business Aligned Supervisory Support team and responsible for review, research, and disposition of trade surveillance/transaction monitoring alerts to identify potential misconduct and policy breaches across asset classes supporting the CIB Markets business.
• Performing CIB Markets controls and activities across asset classes for compliance with regulatory and internal requirements.
• Identifying any non-compliant activity and escalating questionable trading activity to the onshore team (L2 team); supporting remediation where required.
• Collaborating and consulting with onshore teams and India Management for any escalations and process improvement ideas.
• Partnering with internal stakeholders (Controls, Compliance, Line of Business Chief Operating Officers) to ensure adherence to the banks supervisory framework and to maximize efficiencies.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• 6+ months of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

While not essential, it would be beneficial to have:

• Experience in trade surveillance, transaction monitoring, information barriers, or equivalent including direct experience reviewing alerts in trade surveillance role.
• Ability to work in a matrix global organization structure.
• Strong financial products and financial markets knowledge.
• Proficient knowledge of data sets for trading in Markets products, including but not limited to quotes, orders, and executions.
• Knowledge of U.S., U.K., and Asia regulations.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written communication and verbal communication skills in English.
• Excellent analytical skills and strong attention to detail.
• Must exhibit highest standards of integrity and maintain confidentiality.
• Experience in creating MIS and capability to work with business analytics tools (PowerBI, Tableau, Qlickview, MS Dynamics).
• Bachelors/masters degree or any professional degree (CA/CS/CFA etc.) is required.
• 3 to 5 years of supervisory and surveillance controls experience in a global bank.