Business Analyst

**Project description**:
Our client is the corporate and investment banking arm of The Group, world's 12th largest bank by total assets.
We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by:

- Envisioning and preparing the Bank's futures information systems
- Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects.

This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market.
We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.

We are seeking a talented Business Analyst to join our dynamic Capital Market Department

In this role, you serves as the liaison between the business and technical teams in translating complex business needs into technological solutions. He/She analyses business technology requirements and specifications against value and risk of potential solutions, and conducts cost-benefit and risk assessment analysis for proposed solutions to determine suitability of solutions.

Capital Markets IT involves technology solutions and systems used in financial markets for trading, investment, and related activities. This includes electronic trading platforms, risk management systems, market risk, counterparty risk, algorithmic trading, data analytics, and Regulatory measures. The use of advanced technologies like API’s, artificial intelligence and cloud solutions are also becoming increasingly prevalent in capital markets to enhance efficiency and decision-making processes.

**Responsibilities**:
Analyse business technology requirements and specifications against value and risk of potential solutions, Identify suitable technological solutions for the business

Examine interactions between systems elements, systems performance and issues, and designs the solution blueprint for the specific area of expertise with the consideration of implications for integration across the entire solution.

Translates business requirements and user needs into functional and technical specifications, ensuring that business requirements are incorporated into the solution design.

Evaluate the feasibility, viability and implications of proposed solutions and/or enhancements to systems on the current and future business environment

Balance requests and competing priorities from key stakeholders to maximise the value delivered to the organization.

Present business cases defining potential benefits, solutions to increase efficiencies of business processes and associated risks

Create, review & maintain the documentation of the design documents, coding documents and user manuals

Specification of business rules for regulatory reporting, business operations and transformations.

Functional design and testing of solutions.

Maintenance and promotion of best practices around the data dictionary of the bank

Interaction with developers to define implementation specs

Interaction with other IT teams to explain and communicate on Data services

Assisting with the daily operations through scrum, Jira and Kanban, techniques.

Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes relevant to capital markets.

**Skills**:
Must have

7+ years of experience in relevant BA activities.

Hands on expertise on various transaction reporting regulation like MIFID2/SFTR/EMIR/CFTC and any APAC transaction regulatory reporting.

Strong experience on Market data, Pricing, Clearing & Settlement, confirmation, Affirmation concept, Regulatory data sourcing from various upstream platforms like: Jet Stream, TradeWeb, MarkitWire.

Strong functional knowledge of financial products (Derivative products like IRS,TRS,CDS etc ) & regulatory reporting

Ability drive end to end regulatory project with complete ownership.

Experience of capital market processes, e.g. Pricing, Sales/Trader workflow, etc

Skilled in Data analysis using database queries (Sql/Oracle/Sybase),TSQL and JOINS

Good working understanding of Microservices and Swagger UI

Basic knowledge on UNIX Commands and Scripting

Strong understanding on the CFT concepts

Strong knowledge on the XSLT transformation and tools like Oxygen OS

Basic understanding on the tools like Grafana, KIBANA, EJB

Good understanding on GIT, JIRA, Agile project management concept.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams.

Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

Ability to work under pressure.

Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities.

Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.

Strong perseverance and diligence towards attaining goals and effective time management

Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members’ skills.

Autonomous, self-motivated and excellent team player

Nice to have

Desirable to have Messaging Queue concepts and tools like Hermes

**Other**:
Languages

English: C1 Adv