Vice President, Business Technology Liaison I

at  BNY Mellon

Overview
Bring your ideas. Make history.
BNY Mellon offers an exciting array of future-forward careers at the intersection of business, finance, and technology. We are one of the world’s top asset management and banking firms that manages trillions of dollars in assets, custody and/or administration. Known as the “bank of banks” - 97% of the world’s top banks work with us as we lead and serve our customers into the new era of digital.
With over 240 years of rich history and industry firsts, BNY Mellon has been built upon our proven ability to evolve, lead, and drive new ideas at every turn. Today, we’re approximately 50,000 employees across 35 countries with a culture that empowers you to grow, take risks, experiment and be yourself. This is what #LifeAtBNYMellon is all about.
We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Business Technology Liaison I to join our Depositary Receipts team. This role is a hybrid work schedule (3 days a week in office), and can be located out of our New York City, NY office.

EMPLOYER DESCRIPTION:

For over 230 years, the people of BNY Mellon have been at the forefront of finance, expanding the financial markets while supporting investors throughout the investment lifecycle. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments and safeguards nearly one-fifth of the world’s financial assets. BNY Mellon remains one of the safest, most trusted and admired companies. Every day our employees make their mark by helping clients better manage and service their financial assets around the world. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, clients count on the people of BNY Mellon across time zones and in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. It’s the collective ambition, innovative thinking and exceptionally focused client service paired with a commitment to doing what is right that continues to set us apart. Make your mark: bnymellon.com/careers.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:

Responsible for cross-functional improvement initiatives within the Business’ applications acting as the primary liaison between the DR Business Staff and the DR Engineering team to ascertain the technological needs of the DR Business and prioritizing those projects.
Manage multi-functional deliverables to ensure that the concerns of the Client, Business, Risk, Compliance and Legal are addressed during the product and/or project development life cycle.
Accountable for the maintenance, enhancement, development, designing and delivery of all technology to the DR Business
Analyzes, defines and prioritizes business requirements and functional or operational specifications for moderate to large projects of increasing complexity.
Provides consultation to all areas of IT and business management for the application of technology to support business opportunities and planning, implementation of cross-functional applications or systems.
May allocate/coordinate work within a team/project.
Elicits, challenges, and prioritizes business requirements.
Translates into functional design and use case documents.
Develops project scope, objectives, constraints and assumptions.
Plans and formulates aspects of development proposals including the objective or purpose of projects, existing applications that can be utilized, and equipment and human resource requirements.
Participates in and provides guidance on development of functional requirements and user documentation.
Consults internal business groups on requirements, functional architecture and implementation.
Uses thorough knowledge of business needs to provide design support to software and application development teams.
Gathers and analyzes information to assist in the development of recommendations to address business objectives that span multiple business and technology areas.
Works with business and technology teams to implement technology roadmap strategy.
Trains users on new or enhanced applications and/or systems of moderate complexity.
Serves as point of contact or subject matter expert for the business on specific systems.
Provides technical consultation concerning business implications of application development projects.
Supports testing of new or enhanced applications and/or systems and provides guidance to junior team members on case development, requirement traceability analysis, test preparation, script writing, and functional test execution.
Uses broad knowledge of regulatory and legal requirements and BNY Mellon corporate policies involving risk and control to support the development of improved business processes through technology.
No direct reports, but will provide guidance to less experienced colleagues.
Leads projects and allocates work accordingly.
Contributes to the achievement of related teams objectives

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, WE’RE SEEKING THE FOLLOWING:

Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required
5-7 years of work experience in financial services; familiarity with Depositary Receipts and banking technology applications a plus
Collaborative mindset with technology background
At BNY Mellon, our inclusive culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards:
Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies & Top 20 for Diversity and Inclusion
Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI)
Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion , Disability: IN – 100% score
100 Best Workplaces for Innovators, Fast Company
Human Rights Campaign Foundation, 100% score Corporate Equality Index
CDP’s Climate Change ‘A List’
Forbes Blockchain 50