Strategic business analyst job description

Firm Risk Management
Firm Risk Management (FRM) supports Morgan Stanley to achieve its business goals by partnering with business units across the Firm to realize efficient risk-adjusted returns, acting as a strategic advisor to the Board and protecting the Firm from exposure to losses as a result of credit, market, liquidity, operational, model and other risks.

Background on the Position
The role will reside within Firm Risk Management's Operational Risk Department supporting the US Banks.

Operational Risk refers to the risk of financial or other loss, or potential damage to a firm's reputation, resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people, systems, or from external events (e.g., fraud, legal and compliance risks or damage to physical assets). The Firm may incur operational risk across the full scope of its business activities, including revenue-generating activities (e.g., sales and trading) and control groups (e.g., information technology and trade processing). This position directly supports a senior-level team in operational risk by providing analytical, decision-making, and presentation support.

Primary Responsibilities
The ORD Strategic Business Analytics team provides primary global support across the Operational Risk Department. Team members have primary responsibility for a specific coverage area and work in close collaboration with other members of operational risk and business teams. As such there is flexibility in how responsibilities and tasks are managed across the team, both locally and globally.

Specific responsibilities include:
- Support the coverage team in utilizing the operational risk framework components to measure, monitor and control operational risk for the Firm.
- Support the Coverage team with a focus on analyzing large data sets of structured and unstructured data
- Contribute to development of presentations for executive management and senior risk managers in support of Operational Risk Coverage for the US Banks
- Perform other ad hoc projects, analyses, and presentation support for the Coverage team
- Work collaboratively with the Coverage teams in New York, data science colleagues in Mumbai to scope projects, define analytical approaches, establish time frames, conduct analyses and summarize conclusions in concise presentations
- Participate in scenario analysis preparation supporting analytical approaches to estimate stress losses across a range of operational risks and a variety of business, operational and financial market conditions

Experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Intellectually curious about risk management and reporting
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and an ability to present ideas concisely
- Ability to communicate analytic results to a variety of stakeholders
- Ability to work under pressure with competing demands and challenging deadlines

FRM is committed to creating and providing opportunities that enable our workforce to reflect diverse backgrounds and views.

**Job:** **Operational Risk*

**Title:** *Analyst - US Banks Strategic Business Analytics (Operational Risk)*

**Location:** *Maryland-Baltimore*

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 155,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.
**Job Purpose and Impact**

The Business Analyst - Strategic Pricing will lead efforts through influence that will enable change in an organizational context through the creation of the definition of the business needs and the creation of solution recommendations that deliver value to stakeholders. In this role, you will use advanced knowledge of the tasks and techniques that are used to perform complex business analysis such as solution evaluation, strategy analysis, elicitation and collaboration, requirement life cycle management, requirements analysis and design definitions and business analysis planning and monitoring to advance the profitability or efficiency of the business. You will partner effectively with all levels of the organization, guide others, drive results, proactively identify and resolve problems and make challenging decisions to improve business performance.

**Key Accountabilities**

+ Facilitate requirements gathering sessions with business stakeholders, document requirements and create initiatives that support the business requirements and needs.

+ Identify and effectively articulate the need for change in how the organization works and facilitate change applying change management methodologies.

+ Identify and define the solutions to complex business problems that will maximize the value delivered to stakeholders.

+ Guide the business through unknown or unmapped territory to advance to the desired destination as the liaison to cross functional, regional and global solutions delivery teams.

+ Use a thorough comprehension of complex internal or external business issues to analyze the organization or business domain and document business, data, processes or systems and provide an assessment of the business model and the integration with technology.

+ Collaborate across all levels of the organization to collect information about an organization's operations to improve systems and processes, research business processes, analyze the potential impact and create and effectively communicate recommendations for the leadership team.

+ Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.

+ Other duties as assigned

**Qualifications**

+ Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

+ Minimum of two years of related work experience

Cargill highly encourages vaccinations but does not mandate at this time. Upon hire, you will be asked to provide your vaccination status, and if unvaccinated or if you choose not to disclose, you would be expected to follow Cargill's safety protocols for unvaccinated employees (i.e., mask mandates, and social distancing).

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

At Cargill, everyone matters and everyone counts. Cargill is committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. As such and in alignment with our Guiding Principles, Cargill's long-standing equal employment opportunity policy prohibits discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant based on race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, marital status, family status, citizenship status, veteran status, military status, union affiliation, or any other status protected by law.

Cargill also complies with all applicable national and local laws and regulations pertaining to non-discrimination and employment.

Notice to Recruiters and Staffing Agencies: Cargill, Inc. and subsidiaries ("Cargill") have an internal recruiting department. Please review this notice.

US Employment Resources: Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

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You Will:

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Perks

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