Lead Commodities Business Analyst - Operations - VP - 12M FTC

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking an experienced Lead Business Analyst to join the EMEA CIB Product & Strategic Delivery (P&SD) team. This team plays a critical role in driving transformational change across CIB Wholesale Operations. The position will support Operations in delivering both technical and non technical change initiatives, ensuring solutions are fully embedded across the end to end business change lifecycle.
The Business Analyst will work closely with the Project Management function within P&SD and partner with stakeholders across Business, Operations, Technology, Compliance, and Legal to ensure seamless planning, design, and delivery of change. Prior experience leading operational change projects within an Investment Banking environment is highly beneficial, alongside recognised qualifications in Business Analysis and Wholesale Investment Operations.
Candidates with proven delivery experience and deep domain expertise across the Commodities trade lifecycle and Commodities Transaction Reporting-including Commodity Position Reporting, REMIT, MiFID, and EMIR-will be strongly preferred.
In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for Situation Investigation and Problem Analysis, Feasibility Assessments, Business Case Development, Process and Service Improvement, Business Acceptance Testing, Business Change Deployment and Requirements Definition.
• Run discovery, elicitation and design workshops with stakeholders at varying levels to ensure problem statements are fully understood, that requirements are holistic and that they are documented to the highest standards).
• Define and document requirements and user stories using Jira as prescribed by the team and run appropriate meetings to validate the artefacts produced prior to signoff.
• Undertake gap analysis across Operating Models and Commodity Transaction Reporting obligations.
• Produce dashboards to monitor user story and testing progress as prescribed by the team
• Document test scenarios and create tests packs.
• Display a high degree of stakeholder management and analysis.
• Work closely with the Project Management team to ensure that the project remains on track and progress communicated frequently in line with key artefacts provided.
• Identify, analyse and manage risks, issues and interdependencies, escalating as necessary and ensure project tasks are completed according to established timelines.
• Build relationships and influence Internal and external stakeholders to help navigate Wells Fargo move towards the it future state in line with the firm strategy and business objectives.
• Collaborate with Technology and Operations teams to deliver optimal solutions.
• Maintain up to date working knowledge of the industry and ensure that the organization's interests are considered.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Institutional Investment Operations, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Experience working within financial services specialising in Capital Markets in particular the Commodities Regulatory Reporting space.
• Be familiar with both the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and the broader Business Change Life Cycle (BCLC).
• Experience of Investment Operations and the trade Lifecycle demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Exceptional communication and relationship building skills at all levels of the organization.
• Resilient, organised with a high degree of attention to detail.
• Excellent documentation skills ensuring traceability of the delivery back to requirements.
• Experience documenting testing strategies, coordinating testing efforts across multiple platforms and business functions, capturing and documenting UAT results, creation of test scripts and managing and communicating progress.
• Ability to identify the root cause of problems and propose solutions resulting in clear options and recommendations that can be considered to address the issues identified.
• Experience working within both waterfall and agile methods of project delivery.
• Fluent in the following applications: All MS Office Application and Agile Enterprise Jira, and Confluence.

Posting End Date:
19 Feb 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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