Lead Business Analyst

Currently, we are looking for a Lead Business Analyst who will carry out a project for our Client - one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, providing a comprehensive range of financial services to around 60 million customers.

Main tasks

• Translating business requirements into more technical, functional specifications / requirements; clearly and accurately describing the essential technical requirements needed to meet business requirements.
• Analysing and capturing functional & non-functional specification / requirements for Finance and/or Product Control’s long-term (strategic) and short-term projects.
• Working closely with the Business, Change Management and System Developers to understand and clarify business / data requirements in order to define functional and non-functional requirements / specification as well as business rules for Finance systems, e.g. P&L / Balance Sheet reporting, Accounting, sub ledger and Regulatory Reporting
• Analysing and capturing business processes, systems, data and data flows between systems.
• Understanding the Finance business process, systems, and data flows from Front to Back.
• Developing proof-of-concept or prototypes to help crystallise business rules, processes and functions
• Seeking opportunities to make the Finance’s business processes more effective and efficient across business lines and regions
• Seeking opportunities to make Finance system components / application functions more consistent, standardised and reusable ultimately encouraging more consistent business processes
• Reviewing and manipulating trade and market data to understand the variety of scenarios that need to be catered for and prepare test packs
• Providing input to test plans and testing strategies
• Providing input to design discussions and project planning meetings
• Understanding the direction of Finance’s strategic architecture and seek opportunities to promote and accelerate it

Requirements

• Disciplined and methodical approach to analysis with a software engineering or computer science background (either at degree level or working for a software company)
• Experience of analysis techniques / methodology
• Good understanding of the Project Lifecycle
• Experience of Product Control / Financial Control processes (>2 Years)
• Experience in translating business requirements; capturing, analysing and documenting functional & non-functional specifications / requirements (>2 years)
• Broad knowledge of financial instruments / products; such as fungibles (e.g. bonds) and non-fungibles (e.g. derivatives) across interest rate, fx, credit and/or equity businesses
• Experience working within large/strategic and small/tactical projects (>3 years)
• Experience in prototyping or rapid application development or iterative development (>1 year)
• Understanding of Product Control, Financial Control and/or Regulatory processes and workflow (>2 years)
• Understanding of the Change Management process, Project Lifecycle, analysis techniques / methodology (>2 years)
• Experience in MS Access, Excel & Oracle or Sybase or SQL Server SQL (>1 year)

Optional skills

• Ability to work in a team
• Strong analytic skills
• Communication and interpersonal skills

We offer

• Individual approach to each employee
• Possibility to choose type of contract (b2b also)
• Benefit package (MultiSport card, private medical care)
• Work in an international environment
• Stable and long-term cooperation
• Unlimited growth and development opportunity
• Opportunity to work with a leading provider of engineering and technology consultancy in Europe (Alten Group)
• Referral program
• Social events
• Relocation support & relocation package