Corporate Bank Technology – Agency Securities Lending – Senior Business Functional Analyst - Assistant Vice President

Job Description:

Job Title Corporate Bank Technology – Agency Securities Lending – Senior Business Functional Analyst

Corporate Title Assistant Vice President

Location Cary, NC

Who we are:

In short – an essential part of Deutsche Bank’s technology solution, developing applications for key business areas.

Our Technologists drive Cloud, Cyber and business technology strategy while transforming it within a robust, hands-on engineering culture. Learning is a key element of our people strategy, and we have a variety of options for you to develop professionally. Our approach to the future of work champions flexibility and is rooted in the understanding that there have been dramatic shifts in the ways we work.

Having first established a presence in the Americas in the 19th century, Deutsche Bank opened its US technology center in Cary, North Carolina in 2009. Learn more about us here.

Overview

Agency Securities Lending (ASL) is a significant growth area for Deutsche Bank, enabling our client investment funds to earn additional yield on their investments by lending their securities out in the market. ASL has also launched an innovative new product enabling our clients holding high cash balances to earn extra yield by investing their cash balances in short-term instruments.

The ASL business runs on a single legacy front-to-back trading system which is being re-engineered into a modern cloud-native microservices architecture over the next 2 years; ASL Technology is currently a global team of 25 across Cary, Berlin, and Spain with a center of gravity in Cary.

You will engage with senior business stakeholders and traders to understand their business workflows and requirements, understand how these are currently implemented in the legacy system, suggest, and agree with the Business on implementing their requirements in better ways in a re-engineered system, and document these into functionally rich specifications. This is a functionally complex domain, and we are looking for analysts who can deal with complexity and highly unstructured input and convert these into a structured specifications for engineers.

What We Offer You

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration

• A hybrid working model with up to 60% work from home, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days

• A commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility

• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement

• Access to a strong network of Communities of Practice connecting you to colleagues with shared interests and values

• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits

• Educational resources, matching gift, and volunteer programs

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the point of contact for questions or issues related to AxiomSL ControllerView software configuration for assigned regulatory reports

• Collaborate with various business and technical teams to develop solutions for regulatory reports such as FR2900, FR2052A, FFIEC031, FRY9C, FDIC 370, etc

• Convert the Business requirements into a better functional solution/architecture compared to legacy for the re-engineered platform

• Get consensus on your functional solution proposal with the Business and engineers

• Documentation of agreed functional solution into a detailed functional specification, covering User Interface (UI), processing, external feeds, and reporting

• Business and functional analysis in an Agile Collaborative environment; Handover and walkthroughs of functional specification to engineers; Maintain procedures and system configuration documentation

Skills You’ll Need

• Highly analytical mindset with the ability to take a complex functional problem and convert that into a structured functional solution and then a written specification for engineers

• Ability to think through multiple aspects of a problem and its impact throughout the application – E.g., Ability to think of the impact of a new field to the UI, trade processing, trade reconciliations, external feeds, and reporting; Ability to understand and interpret client requests/needs, and respond to questions with clear and effective answers, a