AUSTRALIA, BAHRAIN JOB VACANCIES





Data Analyst

NSI & Bluefin Talent

Australia

Data Analyst, Australia

We are looking for experienced, talented, and innovative designers who are comfortable leading design efforts on client sites and working collaboratively with peers locally and internationally.

This will include:
- Leading experience design projects end-to-end, including discovery, ideation, workshop facilitation, “concepting”, user-testing, detailed design, prototypes and validation
- Overseeing the quality of design output and its contribution to project objectives, including managing the work of contributing design staff as required.
- Actively collaborating with team members to engage clients throughout studies
- Cultivating an environment of sustained creativity and professional growth
- Increasing awareness of the role and importance of user experience design through internal and external reach and relevance and training activity.
- Bachelor's degree in design or equivalent area
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience working in experience design and delivery or related fields
- Strong command of English language (both verbal and written)
- Willingness to travel to client sites

Design experience
- Experience with designing consumer quality products, enabling business capability and objectives through technology
- Interactive and visual design skills, including use of a diverse set of software such as Adobe CS, OmniGraffle, Balsamiq, Azure, or other design tools
- Experience conducting user research, usability testing, A/B testing
- Rapid prototyping
- Knowledge of Agile software development process

Non-design competencies
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative and efficient solutions
- Enjoys and is energised by complex problem solving, with the ability to push the innovation on solutions
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior client business and design/marketing executives on design decisions
- Excellent leadership skills and enjoys teaching / mentoring others
- Ability to work under pressure, manage client expectations effectively and not get overwhelmed by client pressures on team
- Distinct customer focus and quality mindset
- Ability to manage own learning and contribute to functional knowledge building
- Ability to work both independently and in various team settingsNew Sourcing International (NSI) / Bluefin Talent have partnered so to offer a specialized recruitment solution in both the technology and financial services domain.
Working together as a specialist search and selection agency, we concentrate on \\'blue chip\\' financial services & technology consulting organizations across London and the Middle East; focusing exclusively on Financial Services, IT and Risk. Being niche allows us to offer a premium search service, tailored to overcome the technically challenging nature of recruitment for the specialist functions that we work.
We are dedicated to representing \\'best of breed\\' candidates in the region in our dedicated fields of employment. As such we are a leading outfit for placing ex-pats and internationally educated students in the region.
Our biggest unique selling point, is that we are steered by a dedicated team of ex-financial services and IT industry professionals. This allows us to offer a level of candidate pre-screening for roles, which is largely anomalous to the recruitment profession. Our ability to bridge the technical knowledge gap typical recruiters encounter, coupled with a thorough delivery process allows us to drive consistently superior results for our clients\\' sourcing requirements. Designed to provide a fast and efficient turnaround, we minimize the use of internal resources our clients spend vetting inadequate profiles, allowing them to quickly get back to focusing on their strategic goals.
Our strength lies not only in the specialist nature of our firm, but also in the commitment we show towards our clients and candidates. We endeavour to build long-term relationships and recognise the crucial nature of communication throughout the recruitment process. Excellence, integrity, respect and transparency are cornerstone to the culture we promote.
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Digital Analysis and Data

NSI & Bluefin Talent

Australia


Digital Analysis and Data, Australia

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative and efficient solutions
- Enjoys and gets energized by complex problem solving and has an ability to push the innovation on solutions
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior client business and IT executives on technology decisions
- Excellent leadership skills and enjoys teaching / mentoring others
- Ability to work under pressure: to manage client expectations effectively and not be overwhelmed by client pressures on the team
- Distinct customer focus and quality mindset
- Ability to manage own learning and contribute to functional knowledge building
- Ability to work both independently and in various team settings
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or equivalent subject, Masters or PhD strongly preferred
- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in data analysis or software development
- Strong command of English language (both verbal and written)
- Proficiency in statistical data analysis and data mining packages SAS, SPSS, MatLab, R, STATA, Excel etc. Experience of data analysis in Python a plus.
- Experienced on Big Data platforms like Apache Spark, Hadoop, hbase, CouchDB, hive, Pig etc
- Worked with TeraData, Oracle, MySQL, Informatica, QlikView or similar reporting and BI packages
- Competent in data visualization, with tools such as R’s ggplot,
- Used SQL, PL/SQL and similar languages, unix shell scripting
- Experienced with data modeling, design patterns, building highly scalable and secured solutions
- Comfortable and experienced in Agile
- Knowledge of web application development technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Java, UNIX, HTML, CSS, Perl, or PHP a plus
New Sourcing International (NSI) / Bluefin Talent have partnered so to offer a specialized recruitment solution in both the technology and financial services domain.
Working together as a specialist search and selection agency, we concentrate on \\'blue chip\\' financial services & technology consulting organizations across London and the Middle East; focusing exclusively on Financial Services, IT and Risk. Being niche allows us to offer a premium search service, tailored to overcome the technically challenging nature of recruitment for the specialist functions that we work.
We are dedicated to representing \\'best of breed\\' candidates in the region in our dedicated fields of employment. As such we are a leading outfit for placing ex-pats and internationally educated students in the region.
Our biggest unique selling point, is that we are steered by a dedicated team of ex-financial services and IT industry professionals. This allows us to offer a level of candidate pre-screening for roles, which is largely anomalous to the recruitment profession. Our ability to bridge the technical knowledge gap typical recruiters encounter, coupled with a thorough delivery process allows us to drive consistently superior results for our clients\\' sourcing requirements. Designed to provide a fast and efficient turnaround, we minimize the use of internal resources our clients spend vetting inadequate profiles, allowing them to quickly get back to focusing on their strategic goals.
Our strength lies not only in the specialist nature of our firm, but also in the commitment we show towards our clients and candidates. We endeavour to build long-term relationships and recognise the crucial nature of communication throughout the recruitment process. Excellence, integrity, respect and transparency are cornerstone to the culture we promote.
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Agile Iteration Manager / Agile Transformation Lead

NSI & Bluefin Talent

Australia


Agile Iteration Manager / Agile Transformation Lead, Australia

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative and efficient solutions
- Enjoys and gets energized by complex problem solving and has an ability to push the innovation on solutions
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior client business and IT executives
- Excellent leadership skills and enjoys teaching / mentoring others
- Ability to work under pressure: to manage client expectations effectively and not be overwhelmed by client pressures on the team
- Distinct customer focus and quality mindset
- Ability to manage own learning and contribute to functional knowledge building
- Ability to work both independently and in various team settings
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in Agile enabled product or technology delivery, including 3-4 years in a scrum master, iteration management or agile programme management role
- Strong command of English language (both verbal and written)
- Hands on experience of a number of roles in an agile team, including product ownership and iteration management
- Setting up an agile team, establishing working norms, onboarding new team members, establishing tools and workflow, e.g. continuous integration, unit testing etc.
- Introducing agile working to an existing, non-agile organization, including coaching product owners, stakeholder engagement, and team engagement
- Facilitating agile practices such as iteration kickoffs, standups, showcases and retrospectives
- Facilitating agile inception processes, value identification, building product backlogs with product owners, release planning
- Successful delivery of numerous releases in an agile fashion
- Working within a “portfolio” environment with multiple teams, and the need to prioritize and invest in different teams / products at different rates
- Transformation lead: successful leadership of an agile transformation process with multiple teams, stakeholders
- Transformation lead: making the case for agile at an executive level; confident framing and communicating outcomes at the business value level and in practical ways
- Transformation lead: comfortable framing agile activity within wider investment and capital management processes
New Sourcing International (NSI) / Bluefin Talent have partnered so to offer a specialized recruitment solution in both the technology and financial services domain.
Working together as a specialist search and selection agency, we concentrate on \\'blue chip\\' financial services & technology consulting organizations across London and the Middle East; focusing exclusively on Financial Services, IT and Risk. Being niche allows us to offer a premium search service, tailored to overcome the technically challenging nature of recruitment for the specialist functions that we work.
We are dedicated to representing \\'best of breed\\' candidates in the region in our dedicated fields of employment. As such we are a leading outfit for placing ex-pats and internationally educated students in the region.
Our biggest unique selling point, is that we are steered by a dedicated team of ex-financial services and IT industry professionals. This allows us to offer a level of candidate pre-screening for roles, which is largely anomalous to the recruitment profession. Our ability to bridge the technical knowledge gap typical recruiters encounter, coupled with a thorough delivery process allows us to drive consistently superior results for our clients\\' sourcing requirements. Designed to provide a fast and efficient turnaround, we minimize the use of internal resources our clients spend vetting inadequate profiles, allowing them to quickly get back to focusing on their strategic goals.
Our strength lies not only in the specialist nature of our firm, but also in the commitment we show towards our clients and candidates. We endeavour to build long-term relationships and recognise the crucial nature of communication throughout the recruitment process. Excellence, integrity, respect and transparency are cornerstone to the culture we promote.
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VP - Head Of Treasury Support

NSI & Bluefin Talent

Bahrain


Purpose: To plan, organize and control the operational resources of the Treasury Support team on a day to day basis, in order to ensure effective oversight of the Treasury Front Office and minimize operational risk to the bank to ensure that all operational activities are executed in a manner that delivers a quality customer service experience whilst ensuring the efficient and effective use of resources.

Dimensions:
- Financials: Bahrain Operations is a cost centre. Whilst the job holder has no discretionary budgetary responsibilities, he or she will play a role in agreeing the annual Operations budget and assist the Head of Operations in ensuring that actual costs remain in line with approved budgets.
- Staff: Leading and managing a team of 17.

Key Accountabilities:

Reporting to the Head of Operations the job holder will support the:
- Creation of a high performing team capable of supporting the strategic plans of Group Treasury.
- Development and deployment of operational best practices using recognized industry concepts e.g. Lean / Six Sigma as well as Treasury' industry knowledge to increase process efficiency whilst minimizing operational risks.
- Implementation of Key Performance metrics to drive a consistent, rigorous and on-going assessment of the team's operational performance.
- Delivery of strategic change initiatives across the bank in accordance with the priorities agreed by the banks Mancom.

The job holder will play a key role in ensuring the delivery of organizational change and process improvements in order to simplify existing activities and ultimately deliver scalable operational solutions that can be consistently implemented across the Group as required.

To support the above the job holder is expected to have a strong and broad knowledge of Treasury Products and Treasury operational best practices and experience of working as part of a team that develops and delivers transformational change initiatives. A solid understanding of Lean or Six Sigma tools and methodologies is also desirable 

Key Accountabilities:
- To Build a high performing Treasury Support team supported by robust succession plans
- Monitor and challenge (where appropriate), the activities of Group Treasury to ensure that they remain in accordance with the requirements of Group Policies. 
- Ensure that all work processed by the Treasury Support team adheres to all specified Bank individual and collective performance meets the standards required.
- Contribute to the development of a Target Operating Model for Group Treasury Support capability.
- Develop and implement tools and techniques to identify changes that may be required to processes, procedures and or practices in order to support the strategic objectives of Group Treasury.
- Build and deploy standard business Key Performance Indicators (KPls) to ensure that there is high quality Management Information available on all products with particular attention to Staff Productivity, Errors, Discrepancies and Service Level adherence within both the Front and Back office

Key Activities:
- Managing, motivating, coaching and developing team members so that individual and collective performances meets the standards required.
- Leading the appraisal process within the team, collecting and keeping appropriate data.
- Ensuring effective communication and dissemination of appropriate information to all staff. 
- Recommending and implementing changes to the way in which the team operates in order to improve service quality and process efficiency, 
- Maintaining up-to-date awareness of market conditions and developments to ensure that best practices is adopted where required.
- Managing relationships with key stakeholders in Treasury, Risk, Compliance, Finance and CB & FI.
- Assessing management information reports, identifying risks, issues and briefing senior managers on major implications for change projects
- Identifying and assessing trends in issues and workflows investigating further when appropriate and implementing changes or coordinating support from other parties to resolve matters and minimize the risk of reoccurrence.
- Managing and delivering change initiatives.
- Working with team leaders to embed changes within the Treasury Support team.

The job will primarily be focused on building a high performing team supported by class leading operational practices in order to deliver an efficient and effective operating model that can be replicated as required across other Treasury Support teams, the job holder will need to exhibit a can do attitude, a zealousness for delivering change and a passion for challenging the status quo.

The job holder will be expected to work with Operations management and other key stakeholders to ensure that operational activities and associated change programs are aligned to the Group's strategic objectives whilst managing the group risk to within the established group risk appetite.

Identify what major relationships-the job holder has to maintain inside or outside of the Group to enable them to meet their accountabilities, Include all Board, Committee and Regulatory relationships, as well.

Main Contacts:
- Contact Group
- Head of Operations
- Treasury Front Office teams
- Head of Group Operations
- Head of IT
- Head of Compliance
- Head of Operational Risk
- Head of Market Risk
- Head of Finance
- Other Financial Institutions
- 3rd Party Vendors
Job Requirements Knowledge:
- Deep technical knowledge and experience of derivatives / structured
- products.
- Strong Knowledge and understanding of other Treasury product families including Securities and Islamic products.
- Solid understanding of commercial nature and risks associated with Treasury related services and products.
- Where appropriate Wii! have a detailed knowledge of the regulatory practices which may impact the work of the department and an understanding of the likely impact of forthcoming change.

Education & Certifications
- Degree level qualification in banking, finance, accountancy or business administration.
- Recognized Treasury related professional qualification e.g. ACT / MCT I Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.
- At least 10 to 15 years working experience in Treasury Support areas of which at least 5 have been in a leadership position responsible for team development and strategic change initiatives.

Personal Attributes:
- Articulate and easy to understand with strong interpersonal skills, Checks others understanding in response to enquiries / situations.
- Fluent English (spoken and written), Arabic also advantageous.
- Produces clear and concise reports end other written material which are understandable to those with or without knowledge of the subject.
- Full understanding of relevant computer applications and can effectively input, extract and format data.
- Ability to work under pressure, with strong time management skills and proven track record in planning, managing and prioritizing own and teams' work.
- Excellent analytical skills with ability to learn new systems and identify and define problems and solutions.

Competencies (refer to competency model and definitions of levels 1, 2 and 3):

Competency:
- Business Acumen - Understands and utilizes knowledge of the business, economic, financial and industry factors impacting the banks to enhance the business model, explore opportunities and create value for the Bank.
- Customer Centricity - Operates with a customer first attitude and generates and leverages deep customer insights to expand the banks customer base and develop long-lasting and productive customer relationships.
- Leadership - Creates and nurtures an open, energizing and high performance culture engaging, enabling and empowering the banks Talent to be the best they can be and support the Bank's business goals.
- Tranformational Management Encourages and inspires self and others to continuously seek opportunities for new, novel and innovative ways to solve organizational problems, create value and realize opportunities.
- Collaboration & Integration Facilitates cross functional integration, working across the banks boundaries and borders to build collaboration, creativity and trust that mitigates risk and creates
- International Mindset Drives self and others to think from an international perspective, realizing efficiencies and releasing synergies across borders; operates with cultural fluency and flexibility and respects, values and leverages diversity.
- Results Orientation - Focuses action and resources on the achievement of the banks strategic goals and priorities; drives and holds self and others accountable for achieving exceptional results while pursuing the highest standards.
- Pride & Personal Excellence Is passionate about the banks and its business success: encouraging self and others to uphold high ethical standards, demonstrate resilience, continuously grow and be excellent in everything they do.

Proficiency Level Required:
- Level 1: Builds the Value Chain
- Level 2: Maximizes Benefit & Opportunities.
- Level 3: Articulates and drives value proposition
- Level 1: Builds customer relationships
- Level 2: Acts on customer insights and needs
- Level 3: Customizes products and services
- Level 1: Guides and supports team
- Level 2: Motivates & coaches team
- Level 3: Empowers & improves team
- Level 1: Supports Change
- Level 2: Drives Change
- Level 3: Convinces others of change
- Level 1: Improves team collaboration
- Level 2: Builds connections across teams.
- Level 3: Leverages networks and partnerships
- Level 1: Fits within global business set-up
- Level 2: Creates global business opportunities
- Level 3: Breaks down barriers
- Level 1: Improves performance
- Level 2: Defines challenging goals
- Level 3: Raises performance standards
- Level 1: Takes ownership
- Level 2: Strives under pressure
- Level 3: Instills excellence and development
New Sourcing International (NSI) / Bluefin Talent have partnered so to offer a specialized recruitment solution in both the technology and financial services domain.
Working together as a specialist search and selection agency, we concentrate on \\'blue chip\\' financial services & technology consulting organizations across London and the Middle East; focusing exclusively on Financial Services, IT and Risk. Being niche allows us to offer a premium search service, tailored to overcome the technically challenging nature of recruitment for the specialist functions that we work.
We are dedicated to representing \\'best of breed\\' candidates in the region in our dedicated fields of employment. As such we are a leading outfit for placing ex-pats and internationally educated students in the region.
Our biggest unique selling point, is that we are steered by a dedicated team of ex-financial services and IT industry professionals. This allows us to offer a level of candidate pre-screening for roles, which is largely anomalous to the recruitment profession. Our ability to bridge the technical knowledge gap typical recruiters encounter, coupled with a thorough delivery process allows us to drive consistently superior results for our clients\\' sourcing requirements. Designed to provide a fast and efficient turnaround, we minimize the use of internal resources our clients spend vetting inadequate profiles, allowing them to quickly get back to focusing on their strategic goals.
Our strength lies not only in the specialist nature of our firm, but also in the commitment we show towards our clients and candidates. We endeavour to build long-term relationships and recognise the crucial nature of communication throughout the recruitment process. Excellence, integrity, respect and transparency are cornerstone to the culture we promote.
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