Senior Business Analyst

Responsible for the functional knowledge:

Liaise with IT 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

Draft detailed functional specifications/users stories for developers, in line with general specifications or list of requirements provided by project manager / Business Analysts

Support the technical development team in any functional aspects.

Organize and keep up to date detailed functional documentation

Responsible for the functional testing of development

Develop tests strategy in coordination with project manager / Business Analysts

Conduct continuous testing in development environment for development monitoring

Write functional unit test cases and functional test cases for system verification

Follow the user acceptance test and coordinate the prioritization with project manager

Involved in support of application for functional incident

2nd level support work on request escalated from level 1

Reproduce, make first analysis and investigate verifying codification and data

Analyze and/or solve functional problems in coordination with developers

12 years as a Business Analyst in Investment Bank organization within Market Risk department

Technical experience to be comfortable with data models and SQL

Hands-on experience as liaison function between the onshore IT business lines and offshore technical teams and as primary functional support for development team

Thorough experience in functional testing and validation of development

Market Risk knowledge (Pnl explanation, VaR and Stress VaR analysis is a must)

General banking and finance understanding and knowledge

Market data (Volatilities, Curves,…), Sensitivities

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

Ability to easily communicate with multi-cultural team members

Project cycle methodology

Strong technical skills in tests methodology

Strong organizational skills

Strong ability to analyze and summarize

Self-sufficient and pro-active in sourcing information

Strong sense of confidentiality

Product Control knowledge (Pnl calculation and explanation, …)

Financial products (Treasury, FX, Credit, IRD…)

Usage of MS Office, MS Sharepoint, MS Project, MS Visio

Understanding of UML

Technical: Business object, data warehouse, BI

Regulatory knowledge (including Basel III, Basel II, Basel I, SIMM, FRTB, CVA, …)