Liquidity Reporting- data analyst

Job title: Liquidity reporting Compliance

Finance has mobilised a multi-year Integrity of Regulatory Reporting (IRR) programme to ensure that Regulatory Reporting across the Group is fit for purpose; accurate, timely and complete. The IRR programme is responsible for overseeing the design and implementation of a set of standards and control outcomes that will be consistently applied across the end-to-end Regulatory Reporting Process. IRR will drive the interconnectivity across various strategic transformation programs to ensure linkages and dependencies are well understood and aligned to the IRR standards and control outcomes.

The Liquidity Product Based Review (LIQ_PBR) workstream is part of the overall data controls framework for Liquidity Regulatory Reporting. Product Based Reviews enable Finance to develop key assurance that the end to end data flow for Business Data Elements (“BDE’s”), from upstream Primary Booking Systems to downstream Reporting data warehouses (including the Liquidity Reporting Finance Data Application / Platform) complies with the applicable group data standards and controls (‘DMOV’ and ‘DUSE’), is complete and valid for the production of key Liquidity reports and metrics and that data quality or completeness issues discovered through the PBR process are appropriately logged, reported, escalated and managed to resolution.

The LIQ_PBR Data Analyst contributes to Global Finance, supporting data flow discovery and documentation, from upstream primary trading and booking systems (PTS) to downstream Liquidity reporting platforms. The role holder will support the Liquidity PBR workstream to undertake quantitative and qualitative data documentation, test case formulation, data test execution and results tabulation, in order to provide the necessary assurance for management with regards to the traceability, lineage, transformation and controls on Liquidity business data elements from source systems to reporting. In this regards, the LIQ PBR data analyst will work with Liquidity SMEs to document BDEs that require to be traced from upstream sources, liaise with upstream data source RTB teams to develop a data flow architecture for the movement of data, further request sample transactional and other data to test the data per test cases developed to ensure that transformation logic is per expectation, and present the results to management with appropriate follow through in case of exceptions and non-expected findings. The LIQ_PBR data analyst will also document and test the data handling and transformation controls applicable at stage of the data flow from source systems to downstream reporting platforms.

The Liquidity Business Analyst will:

• Apply approaches, tools and techniques for gathering, clarifying and managing business requirements, including data analysis on large datasets
• Support colleagues to define, develop and translate requirements at specific stages of the project lifecycle, developing an understanding of different types of requirements and how these translate into test cases
• Based on the data and requirements analysis & understanding, define the design options that will comply with Finance design principles, contributing to building functionality into Finance target architecture
• Execute functional and business testing of requirements – and support the users through the User Acceptance Testing phases
• Support data traceability projects
• Support Data quality remediation acitvities including upstream root cause analysis
• Support implementation phases (e.g. dress rehearsals / parallel runs)
• Day to day running of requirement management systems, change control and document standards.
• Work in alignment with the Change Framework.
• Stakeholder management
• Invest in training more junior members of the team
• Engage and establish good communications with upstream data provider systems (Run the bank) RTB teams in order