Operations Project Analyst (Contract)

Role Overview:

This role sits within a regional operations transformation programme at a leading investment organisation, supporting business change initiatives across operations, data, and systems. The Operations Project Analyst plays a critical role in shaping and delivering operational improvements by defining business requirements, assessing impacts, validating solutions, and supporting implementation. Depending on scope, the role may combine both business analysis and light project management responsibilities, working closely with internal stakeholders and external service partners in a regulated financial services environment.

Key Responsibilities:

· Elicit, analyse, validate, and document business and data requirements using structured analysis techniques and industry-standard tools.

· Conduct end-to-end impact assessments across current and future-state processes, systems, data, and operating models.

· Partner with internal stakeholders and external service providers to clarify requirements, assess solution feasibility, and manage dependencies.

· Analyse operational, reporting, and migration data to assess impacts, ensure data quality, and support readiness for change.

· Redesign and document future-state processes, procedures, and controls to support scalability and risk mitigation.

· Support solution design workshops, working with technical and architecture teams to evaluate options and confirm optimal outcomes.

· Contribute to testing activities including UAT planning, test script development, execution support, and defect resolution.

· Provide implementation and change support, including stakeholder communications, training support, issue tracking, and status reporting; act as project lead for smaller initiatives where required.

Key Requirements:

Must-have:

· Degree-qualified with 5–10 years’ experience in business analysis or operations change within financial services (asset management preferred).

· Strong understanding of operations processes, data flows, and post-trade lifecycle activities.

· Hands-on experience with requirements elicitation, process mapping, impact analysis, and UAT support.

· Proven ability to work across stakeholders, vendors, and service providers in complex delivery environments.

· Familiarity with regional regulatory and market practices in Asia.

· Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to operate independently in ambiguous situations.

Nice-to-have:

· Experience supporting middle-office, collateral, performance, or enterprise data initiatives.

· Exposure to buy-side data models covering portfolios, securities, pricing, transactions, and reference data.

· Experience working with outsourced operations or third-party service models.

· Knowledge of regulatory trade reporting frameworks across major jurisdictions.

If this role aligns with your experience and career goals, please send your application to [email protected].

Argyll Scott Asia is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.