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Job description / Role
The role will provide both business analyst and project management leadership on multiple projects of varying complexity for the MAR region in GGO.
The Project management aspect of this role will provide effective leadership and define scope working with key stakeholders and other management to ensure business and/or technical objectives are achieved. Typical projects will employ the entire lifecycle from requirements through to deployment.
The business analyst aspects of this role will involve working with key stakeholders with in MAR and across TR eliciting documenting business/user/functional requirements and associated priorities, whilst managing these through the lifecycle stages and ensuring objectives are understood and accounted for in the development of technical solutions.
The role also requires communication of project status updates, broader communication of initiatives and successes as well as regular emails and newsletters to update senior stakeholders and regional teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Project Management
• Manage assigned aspects of the Project life cycle to facilitate the successful delivery, as well as the metrics for reporting to the executive team on the business case ROI.
• Assemble cross-functional teams and assign individual responsibilities. Provide project leadership, work direction, and feedback. Influence the work of others outside of direct authority to ensure project milestones and deliverables are met, and issues and risks are communicated.
• Develop and manage to detailed project plans, including schedules, cost estimates, resource plans, communication plans, risk mitigation plans and issue resolution plans.
• Identity project risks/gaps, create and proactively manage risk mitigation plans.
• Support sponsors in the formulation and estimation of high level business cases.
• Effectively manage project team conflicts, build collaborative partnerships with stakeholders and commitment to make decisions.
• Communicate and report status to stakeholders, global business partners and all other key stakeholders e.g., Weekly Status Reports, Executive updates, Newsletters, Project reviews, etc.
• Deliver formal presentations and executive summaries to senior management to provide recommendations and status updates.
• Travel required (up to 10%).
Business Analysis
• Creates requirements, reviews functional requirements, validates solutions, co-ordinates and participates with testing.
• Ensure documented requirements meet quality standards.
• Assist test testing teams in the translation of requirements into test cases and ensures application architecture and systems functionality meets business requirements.
• Provides routine and ad hoc status updates and facilitates meetings as needed.
Responsibility for Others (direct/indirect):
• Responsible for the work output of other project team members. Collaborate with the resource managers who are directly managing those team members as needed.
• Lead cross-functional and international dispersed teams.
Requirements
Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge and Skills:
• Bachelor's degree required in Business, Technology, or Operations Management or similar field.
? PMP certification preferred or thorough knowledge and demonstrated execution of project management methodology including documentation.
• ITIL certification preferred.
• Demonstrate technical and business acumen.
• 2+ years of project management experience working in a large organization with cross-functional global teams.
• 2+ years business analyst experience.
• Ability to effectively influence, interact and collaborate with senior level management.
• Ability to manage resources in a continuously changing environment with competing demands.
• Proven track record of successful project implementation with definable contributions to the business.
• Ability to drive and manage multiple projects or key work streams simultaneously.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and project management skills.
• Strong communication skills, interpersonal skills, and the ability to influence actions/decisions of others.
• Strong customer focus and global mind set.
About the Company
Refinitiv is one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, serving over 40,000 institutions in approximately 190 countries. We provide leading data and insights, trading platforms, and open data and technology platforms that connect a thriving global financial markets community - driving performance in trading, investment, wealth management, regulatory compliance, market data management, enterprise risk and fighting financial crime. We are new market pioneers with 167 years of confidence. Breaking new barriers. Enabling more responsible, transparent and connected financial markets. We redefine what data can do. Through an open ecosystem, a high-performance culture, analytics, insights and technology.
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