Senior Analyst ACES Analysis

See yourself in the team:

Risk Management is responsible for developing the risk frameworks to allow the Group to take conscious exposures to credit, market, operational, compliance and insurance risks within a Board-approved appetite. It ensures the Group has appropriate strategies and frameworks in place to assess, manage and report on credit, market, operational, compliance and insurance risks.

The ACES Business Support team is a newly formed team within the Transformation, Systems and Operations and Group Financial Risk (GFR) teams and is a trusted adviser for relevant risk issues across the CBA Group’s non-retail credit risk portfolio.

The team is responsible for the management and ongoing support of the Bank’s uplift of the core counterparty credit risk (CCR) system and its use, and the development of sound practices in support of the effective management and oversight of activities that give rise to CCR.   

We work closely with each segment of the business to provide the best risk management outcomes for our customers and stakeholders.

As part of an in-flight transformational credit risk system project, the team is uniquely positioned to support and guide that initiative as part of the gradual release to full capability. 

Your Impact:

Develop a working knowledge of business and technology landscape, product roadmap and vision and project objectives, and the development and maintenance of critical artefacts, including

• Setting business context and vision
• Establishing the value proposition for the credit system in collaboration with stakeholders (Business and Technology)
• Product and project overviews and stakeholder engagement material (for use with a wide range of levels including leadership teams and senior executives)
• Credit system strategy and roadmap
• Contribute to prioritisation of feature backlog and managing senior business and technical stakeholders to ensure that prioritisation is understood and agreed to
• Business benefits and value profile for projects and features
• Iteration/ Release plans (in conjunction with delivery teams)

Perform activities supporting project delivery, including:

• Addressing impediments, driving business decisions, and resolving escalations
• Participating in delivery ceremonies as necessary
• Developing and maintaining ‘onboarding’ material for delivery teams to establish common understanding of vision and business context
• Supporting decomposition of features and requirements
• Development acceptance criteria and definition of done
• Reviewing detailed requirements to ensure alignment to product vision and roadmap
• Identifying and assisting in management of inter-dependencies between projects
• Definition of benefits realisation plans including tracking and measurement activities
• Completion of key business testing / assurance activities such as UAT and BVT

Contribute to effective credit system and project governance through:

• Analysis and preparation of materials to drive business decisions such as supporting Business Owners in running Business Scrums, Executive Steering Committees and Sponsor updates
• Support Business Owners in running stakeholder engagement forums (collecting feedback and voice of the customer) and develop, prioritise and communicate product backlog
• Participate in and contribute to the Risk Product Owner community and uplift in Product Ownership capability across the Risk Management Business Unit

Maintain the knowledge base for Product and Business Domain including:

• Maintaining current documentation of product features, design, processes and artefacts
• Maintaining evaluation criteria and rating of value/ benefits associated with product backlog, helping Business Owners balance schedule, cost and quality in prioritisation
• Liaising with Business Architecture, Business Owners and Strategy Executives to support impact assessment and scoping of future investment opportunities
• Work across projects that impact a given Product/ Business Domain to ensure alignment to product vision and strategy and identify inter-dependencies, misalignment or synergies

We're interested in hearing from people who have:

• Graduate qualification in finance or related discipline
• Understanding of credit systems
• Understanding of markets traded products and lending products
• Understanding of Risk Management landscape, risk disciplines and how they intersect (credit, market, operational, and compliance)
• Experience in Agile delivery environments and with agile tools and concepts
• Excellent interpersonal communication and people skills (e.g. presentation, initiative, discretion, and an ability to promote collaboration and foster common understanding
• Strong skills in facilitating workshops with stakeholders of different levels of seniority and across different levels of detail