Operations Transform Specialist

Company & Team - "About Us"

Osttra is the home of MarkitSERV, Traiana, Trioptima and Reset businesses that offer post trade services to a community of 10k+ clients. Our company brings together people, processes, and networks to solve the markets' most challenging problems. Innovating, integrating, and optimising the post-trade workflow - we are positively shaping the way the community works forever.

Department overview:

Operations serves as the primary interface for day-to-day support of customers facilitating onboarding, testing of new functionality and enhancements and by providing production support for the various Osttra platforms. Operations professionals work in a fast-paced environment where the main objective is to provide excellent service to our customers by answering financial inquires and providing platform onboarding expertise with urgency and attention to detail while contributing to the area's overall strong sense of teamwork.

Duties and Responsibilities - "Your Role"

Seeking a self-driven individual with strong problem-solving ability to engineer LEAN processes and analytical skills to fill a position within the Osttra Transform group. Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written are also required. The successful candidate will be responsible for review of existing and proposed processes to identify potential improvements, actively make recommendations based on industry best practice and new technology, as well as consult during various strategy sessions to build future functionality that drives efficient and excellent client experience.

Duties & accountabilities:

• Develop and maintain strong relationships across internal teams
• Partner with Operations Subject Matter Experts to review areas of potential process improvement and develop and formulate recommendations
• Drive continual improvement of the Operations processes and strive for a world class client experience
• Review process designs for product and regulatory change to verify process is in line with guiding principles of Operations functionally
• Elicit requirements and write Business Requirements documents
• Research solutions and tools available across the industry to recommend internal improvements to processes and systems
• Perform data analysis and assess benefits and return on investment of change
• Document existing versus new process proposals to highlight changes
• Ensure operations readiness, execute, and implement the change

Job Requirements - "About You"

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years financial services experience
• Knowledge of financial markets and OTC derivatives required
• Prior Business Analysis background is preferred
• Sig Sigma certification is preferred
• Previous experience working with software systems and technology is required along with a strong understanding of SDLC
• Background in project management, process improvements, business decision modelling or other corelating discipline
• Understanding of Osttra's commitment to providing exceptional customer service
• Customer service and satisfaction are key priorities for the firm. Candidates must be aware of the impact of their actions on internal and external clients
• Identifies opportunities to drive change in business and implementation processes to realize productivity, risk, commercial and time to market opportunities
• Candidate must be client focused and possess strong problem-solving skills with the ability to learn new concepts and applications quickly
• Must be able to drive consensus driven change across a global organization at varied levels
• Ability to work as part of a team is critical to success, not just regionally but with global team members

Job Benefits - "What we offer"

• Cash incentive plan
• Options to work from home
• Flexible working hours to allow you to attend your family
• Opportunity to work with world experts in the field
• Strong client base and broad product line

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