Business Analyst - Credit RIsk

Project description

The Business Analyst will work with the Predictive and Modelling Tech team of a UK Based Investment Bank and work collaboratively with Country Finance, Treasury, Group and BAU teams to understand requirements and articulate them within the Business and data requirements document.

Responsibilities

• Act as a business solution owner of the projects' target state and support analysis included in relevant concept and methodology papers required for preparation of BRDs.
• Be accountable for ensuring that detailed requirements are documented in BRDs and are duly signed off by relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure that the new solutions comply with internal procedures / external regulatory guidelines and project deliverables are properly understood by business stakeholders, project team, and end-users.
• Validate that the strategic system architecture proposed by Technology is fit for its business purpose and is in line with the agreed business target state.
• Drive prioritization taking into consideration business benefits, delivery timelines, system performance, etc.
• Centrally coordinate system interfaces/dependencies/change releases for the Treasury and Liquidity Reporting work streams and ensure alignment across all centres.
• Test planning, coordinate testing, validate test results and obtain sign off from stakeholders.
• Support the development of testing packs with predefined results sets.
• Review test cases ensuring completeness of UAT coverage.
• Monitor any gaps/defects identified, and work with Technology counterparts to track progress and ensure resolution.

SKILLS

Must have

• 6-12 years of functional experience in Credit Risk, with experience in Internal ratings-based (IRB) approach.
• Good understanding of financial & capital markets domain with sound knowledge of products like equities, fixed income, derivatives, forex, etc.
• Good understanding of International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS 9) and Basel III framework.
• Expertise in Enterprise-Wide Stress Testing (EWST).
• Experience with both waterfall & agile methodologies.
• Experience in analysing data to draw business-relevant conclusions and in data visualization techniques and tools.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have

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