Senior Transformation Migration Analyst- Manchester, London or Radbroke

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Senior Transformation Migration Analyst to work for our client within the finance sector. This is initially a 6 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in either Manchester, London or Radbroke. 

Our client is seeking a Senior Transformation Migration Analyst to collaborate with technology teams, business stakeholders, operations users, the controls team, the migration technology team, the UAT test manager, and other key stakeholders. The role involves planning, managing, and executing system and process changes for the Wholesale Lending migration to the Loan IQ platform, including business analysis, current vs. future state gap analysis, requirements documentation, process and procedure updates, and the creation and execution of test scripts.

Key Responsibilities:

• The role holder will run a Migration Pod and drive execution on data migration, risk & control, training and business process alignment for both short term (interim) changes and for long term (strategic) changes.
• The role holder will manage the recognition of pre and post migration data and identify the resolution for discrepancies .Proactively use the reconciliation to improve the data quality for future migrations.
• The role holder will liaise with all stakeholders including tech/ops partners and drive the data clean up activities as well as process optimisation/automation opportunities.
• The role holder will liaise with Stakeholders and be an integral part of the go to team for systems, process & automation change in Wholesale Lending Operations, facilitating & giving recommendations on migration execution, sign off from stakeholders on various future state design decisions and Go/No Go decisions.
• The role holder will support systems implementation and execution into BAU and be on site in the business area to provide support, guidance & issues escalation – liaising with Technology & Business area’s involved.
• Liaising with Stakeholders and being an integral part of the go to team for strategic change in Wholesale Lending Operations
• The role holder would ensure continuous improvement is central to the delivery of Operational Readiness taking feedback from workstream leads and stakeholders and applying this to delivery plans.
• The role holder will communicate professionally, clearly and confidently to a global audience and support the creation of presentation materials in Transformation team and Project meetings.
• The role holder will be able to extract and interpret data and turn into a presentable format for their own presentations and as part of the deliveries of other key stakeholders
• The role holder will co-manage the migration deliverables for the offshore team
• The role holder will have strong organisational skills and be able to manage and prioritise their workloads to be able to meet deadlines.
• The role holder will undertake other duties that may reasonably be required in order to meet the objectives of Wholesale Lending Operations.

Stakeholder Management and Leadership

• The role holder will lead a migration pod ensuring that the scope is effectively managed and lead on the dry-run and actual migrations. The role holder will also act as a contributor within other migration workstreams.
• The role holder will work with various stakeholders and tech partners to ensure change is implemented smoothly e.g. work with other Migration leads to gain buy-in to migration testing requirements, timelines, and testing delivery plans.
• The role holder will maintain awareness of business process change throughout the project execution phase.
• The role holder will provide regular updates to enable the tracking & reporting progress on/understanding the impact of systems & automation changes, migration testing requirements on those processes and areas of the Business affected by that change.

Decision-making and Problem Solving

• The role holder will work with other Pod leads and contributors to identify and communicate resolution for discrepancies identified in the migration
• Prepare with full engagement of stakeholders bespoke testing scenarios, scripts, frameworks, procedures, management Information & present –including as appropriate project documentation. To inform testing and process design strategy on key Projects & automation & ensure all deliverables are fully tested to appropriate level of business risk.
• Understand the impact of planned initiatives, deployment schedules & time lines on those processes and the business areas that use them.
• Ensure that the business understands the impact of the change, the required testing regime, is able to accommodate and will derive the intended benefit of planned changes. 

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in lending
• Hands on experience of the ACBS application within Corporate and IB Lending Operations team
• Hands on experience with Finastra Fusion Loan IQ either from an operational capacity or through an implementation/upgrade project capacity in one or more of the following areas: Loan IQ configuration, business analysis, operations processes, loan servicing, syndicated lending
• Proven knowledge of Corporate and IB Lending processes and procedures
• Proven ability to quickly learn, understand and adapt to new systems and processes
• Experience at dealing with stakeholders at all levels
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills

Desirable skills:

• Project Management / Delivery experience
• An understanding of the key phases of Agile and Waterfall project methodologies
• Knowledge of JIRA, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel
• Experience at dealing with stakeholders at all levels
• Lending /Servicing knowledge across all debt products
• Prior experience in loan operational support, including term loans, revolver, delayed draw term loans
• Experience of using Agile project management would be preferred
• Knowledge & experience working closely with IT, Transformation & Change area

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 3,500 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.