Business Analyst
- Solihull, England (GBR)
- Negotiable
- To be confirmed
- Start date: 01 Nov 22
- Ref: 5082549
- business analyst
- data analysis
- ms excel
- sql
- agile
Business Analyst
Contract Role,Dublin
If you would like to discuss this vacancy further or to discuss your career options in confidence, please telephone Jess Burke at 0831966926 or send your profile to jburke@berkley-group.com
My client a financial services company is looking for an experienced Business Analyst to join their team. The successful candidate will be responsible for high level implementation plans, data and process models, test strategies, test implementation and change management review. Candidate should also be able to perform as team leaders when necessary. Testing skills required over Database and UI technologies.
The Job:
- Responsible for working with the business partner teams on the delivery of the Capital and other Regulatory Reporting projects, primarily associated with COREP, Statistical, Finrep and Anacredit.
- Apply a mix of accounting, data analysis, and project management skills to work as part of a team designing and implementing our new regulatory reporting platform. They will need to liaise across various areas of the bank (Finance, Middle Office, Operations and Treasury etc.)
- Analyse and document business and technical processes for data sourcing (both transactional and reference), data normalisation, and regulatory and internal management information reporting
- Work closely with key business subject matter experts, development and testing teams across the organization to produce business requirements associated with business, operational and technical changes
- Collaborate with testing support teams to ensure full understanding of change and full complement of testing is performed. Will also support business partners during User Acceptance Testing phases
- Responsible for reviewing and approving test scenarios/test cases developed by QA testers
- Responsible for maintaining Business Requirements Documents and Functional Specifications in-line with requirements from business SMEs and Bas
- Partnering with project managers to ensure that governance policy is adhered to across the portfolio in accordance with stated standards and processes
- Acting in an advisory capacity to software developers during build and test project phases
- Independent assessment of project / programme business cases and sign-off
Have you:
- Experience of mandatory regulatory implementations within a Tier 1 Investment Bank
- High level understanding of financial products and key asset classes such as Debt, Equity, Commodity etc.
- Strong control mentality. Fundamental accounting and reconciliation skills.
- Good Data Analysis capabilities, with experience in writing BRDs, and reviewing Technical Specifications.
- Ability to analyse large volumes of data via MS Excel and SQL (pivots, data comparison etc.).
- Experience in creating test scenarios and User Acceptance testing
- Strong verbal communication skills; applicable for managing up and down the technology chain, as well as working with business partners from multiple disciplines with differing priorities across multiple, global locations
- Strong written communication skills with the ability to convey complex concepts clearly and concisely
- In depth knowledge delivering within Agile development environment
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