Position: Business Enhancement Manager
Location: London / Hybrid, on-site 3 days per week
Duration: 12 Months
Day Rate: Circa 725 via Umbrella
PAYE option also available - Provides a competitive salary with additional bonus and benefits.
Are you an expert within the trading/ commodities industry? If so, this role is for you!
Overview
This opportunity is the trading arm of our energy client! They trade LNG, gas, power and energy attributes - and connect independent producers, suppliers and corporate off-takers in the wholesale energy markets.
We are recruiting for a Business Enhancement Manager to work out of their London office (close to Marble Arch), the role is required to be situated out of their London offices 3 days per week as well as a potential travel to their offices in Denmark.
Role Accountabilities
Lead large scale, multi-functional projects such as platform simplification and integration activities
- Develop and provide process thought leadership within integration objectives
- Ensure consistency of design and process within integration activities
- Guide and lead business through the introduction on of new cross-functional processes that are introduced / re-engineered
- Lead multi-functional teams on platform simplification projects
- Ensure and follow consistency of project management methodology implementation.
Set up the strategy to enhance control framework & improve processes across post trade execution activities
- Conduct in depth analysis of complex data flows and implement robust controlled process to support business initiatives
- Partner with DTS and the business to develop tools and dashboards that support processes and controls
- Identify control gaps and process inefficiencies in the Front Office (FO), Middle Office (MO), Commercial Operations (CO) and Settlement Operations (SO) by leveraging best practices, industry bench-marking studies, findings by operational risk and / or internal audit
- Identify areas for further operational improvement by partnering with Operational Risk, Internal Audit, CO, SO and DTS and by conducting targeted studies of areas of concerns. Set up operational excellence strategy
- Lead high-stakes / high impact cross-functional operational improvement projects
- Work with third-party providers (consultants) on scoping and managing improvement projects
- Ensure appropriate and up-to-date process documentation (e.g. procedures, flow diagrams, RASCI matrices)
- Ensure timely close out of all audit and operation risk recommendations and action items.
Partner with the rest of the COO organisation
- Reporting to the Business Enhancement Manager and supporting all project roles in with Business Enhancements and Strategic Projects team in London, Aalborg and Copenhagen
- Build strong partnership relationships with the Business Managers
- Enable them to deliver projects in support of the business agendas of their respective businesses.
Team development
- Ensure strong communications between the two locations to facilitate project execution.
The Person We're Looking For
- Knowledge of trading markets. This experience could have been gained in either commodities or in the banking / financial sector
- Understanding of key processes: pre-trade, trade lifecycle and post trade including settlement process flows including ERP processes
- Track record of analysing trading and operations processes and data
- Project management skills with experience in the implementation of large-scale cross-functional projects
- Understanding of the operational and control best practices
- Relationship building - willingness and ability to establish, build, sustain and share strong professional relationships with relevant groups both inside and outside the business
Interested in utilising your capabilities to drive success with a well-known business?
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