Main responsibilities

As Business Analyst, you will be leading and contributing to projects related the maintenance and enhancement of the solution in collaboration with the business users, the developers and the IT support. This will cover the whole cycle from requirement gathering, specifications and testing until the delivery to production including the following responsibilities:

·       Lead workshop with business lines contacts for clarification and understanding of requirements.

·       Analyze functional impacts considering technical constraints with technical lead’s help

·       Prepare and present functional aspects of changes/evolutions to developers

·       Support the technical development team in any functional aspects.

·       Organize and keep up to date detailed functional documentation

·       Develop tests strategy in coordination with project manager / Business Analysts

·       Conduct continuous testing in development environment for development monitoring

·       Support and coordinate the User Acceptance Test

·       Analyze and/or solve functional problems in coordination with developers

This position is a rare opportunity to work with technical and functional subject matter experts of the Financial Industry, be exposed to the latest technologies deployed by the bank and grow your finance and capital markets experience with Summit, a market leading packaged software.

Qualifications and Profile

Mandatory:

·       At least 12 years of experience as a business analyst in a financial organization

·       Exposure to the Capital Markets system Summit as a preference or similar such as Murex, Calypso, Sophis, Front Arena, Kondor, Opics...

·       Experience in Financial IRD products and Capital Market Back-Office environments with a focus on Settlement, Accounting, Regulatory, Reconciliation…

·       Thorough experience in functional testing and validation of development

·       Hands-on technical experience to be comfortable with Linux, scripting, data models and SQL

Good to have

·       Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both team mates and management

·       Ability to convey clearly and concisely ideas in a concrete and coherent way.

·       Ability to easily communicate with multi-cultural team members

·       Experience in Back Office system (Summit, Calypso) or Front-Office or Market Risk

·       Usage of tools such as MS Office / Sharepoint /Project / Visio, Jira, GIT

·       Understanding of UML

Other Professional Skills and Mind-set

·       Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

·       Excellent communication interpersonal skills

·       Strong analytical and problem solving skills

·       Proficient software development life cycle

·       Autonomy to include implicit deliverables in assignment based on best practices

·       Strong appetite to learn both functional and technical new domain

·       Appetite to participate to communities

·       Strong sense of confidentiality

Degree and above in relevant discipline