Job Description:

Do you have a background in developing or improving operational controls, within a Financial Services setting?

Our client, a global financial services firm, have a rare opportunity for a Process Reengineering Specialist to join their team in Glasgow on an initial 9 month contract.

This is a hybrid role, with 3 office days and 2 from home.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Ability to draw focus and influence decision-making at a management level.
• Strong ability to co-ordinate work with all levels of a global team across multiple locations.
• Excellent attention to detail - effective in accurately detailing key process and control steps in multiple forms such as procedures, quick reference cards and process flows.
• Strong analytical skills and critical thinking - understands how to break down a problem and suggest and implement a practical solution.
• Effective communication skills - clear, concise, and proficient in articulating regulatory updates and information in a way that all levels can understand.
• Ability to manage workload efficiently and effectively.
• Effective problem-solving skills demonstrating initiative and creativity.
• Strong technical skills - Proficient in Excel in addition to PowerPoint and Word (Visio is also desired but not essential).
• Interest in assessing and implementing process improvement, efficiencies, and controls.
• Understands the importance of maintaining completeness and accuracy of process and procedure documentation.
• Escalates issues/concerns appropriately and in a timely manner.

Core Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement strategies to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, define project scope, and establish plan and timelines for process enhancements.
• Create training materials, formal procedures, guidance documents, process flow, and quick reference cards to support change initiatives and embed key processes.
• Identify, analyse, and assess current operational processes within the team and improve controls.
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of process changes, identify areas for improvements and making recommendations for further enhancements.
• Lead process improvement efforts by providing guidance, support, and training to the impacted team members.
• Work closely with cross-location team members to distil alignment and integration of change and process improvement initiatives.
• Facilitate workshops, meetings, and training sessions to communicate changes and foster better understanding of new and existing controls, processes, and regulatory updates.
• Manage agenda for specific project closure meetings, Global Manager meetings and maintain completeness and accuracy of the Global team deliverables calendar and the able to hold people accountable for deliveries.
• Provide a foundation to connect multiple workstreams across the Global team and ensure key considerations are discussed and agreed as part of project scoping, closure and lessons learned communications.
• Stay informed about industry, best practices, trends, and emerging technologies to finance and process improvement initiatives.

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

Job reference: 15809

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

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