Senior Consultant Specialist

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Consultant Specialist.

Business: Finance and Traded Risk Tech

Principal responsibilities

Based in Guangzhou, the successful candidates will be responsible to:

• Primarily responsibility as the production practices management for the Finance asset class
• Service management for the Finance value stream, however, is subject to change
• Lead the implementation of service management practices across all pods within the asset class and ensure adherence across the asset class
• Implementation change in various control process across service process to ensure service quality and compliance
• Manage communications with stakeholders in IT, business, within and outside of the asset class of various incidents
• Producing regular reports to relevant Business and IT stakeholders
• Provide support on identification of incidents to IT teams by partnering with the Engineering teams and Service Management Leads till resolution

• Working with stakeholders to ensure that negative customer and business impacts are avoided 

• Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure that robust communication and escalation mechanisms are in place
• Appreciation of existing data privacy issues, ensuring solutions adhere to data regulations and controls

• Ensure adherence of best practices of service management delivery standards across the pods, with risks, issues and dependencies correctly defined and managed

• Role requires a self-starter with strong service management skills who can manage challenges of supporting complex environments 
• Strong service management, data and technical analysis skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities

• A clear communicator with strong interpersonal skills who can manage stakeholders in a complex matrix organisation
• Ensure methodologies are aligned to the organisations IT strategic vision, demonstrating a continual desire to implement strategic or optimal solutions, and where possible, avoid workarounds or short-term tactical solutions

Knowledge & Experience/Qualifications

• Service management experience, which include communications capabilities, decision making and problem-solving skills and interpersonal skills
• Extensive experience in support of management information and technologies, with multiple teams, vendors, interfaces and stakeholders involved
• Understanding of hybrid technology stack.
• Strong knowledge of service management tool Service Now
• Experience with implementing monitoring, alerting and familiarity with automation involving e.g. grafana dashboards, splunk, ELK etc.
• Experience in Agile Project methodologies and tools such as JIRA and Confluence
• Knowledge of and experience using data models and data dictionaries in a Banking and Financial Markets context
• Ability to communicate with people in a matrix-orientated environment and in a multi-programme environment across a range of stakeholders
• Proven experience of positive, challenging interactions with Senior Executives across the business
• Outstanding relationship management, collaboration and influencing skills
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively and confidently at all levels across the Group
• Detail orientated with the proven ability to articulate complex issues concisely and in simple language to recognise to the global remit of this role
• Ability to articulate or translate complex information through clear and meaningful written and spoken communication in a structured way
• Willingness to learn, strong initiative, ability to work both independently and as part of a team, and flexibility with regard to the assignment of tasks and scheduling essential
• Strong customer focus and commitment to delivery
• Effective knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling programmes
• Strong knowledge of service management and support methodologies and reporting
• Strong knowledge of evolving challenges with managing and sharing data

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