Job Description
SN Required Information Details
1 Role Business Analyst
2 Required Technical Skill Set JIRA, Confluence, SQL, Excel, Agile, Axiom (Preferred)
3 Required Functional Skill Set Reg Reporting (MUST), Finance, Accounting, Derivatives, Trade Life Cycle, Risk Management, Capital Markets, Investment Banking
4 Desired Experience Range 5-15 Years
Desired Competencies (Technical/Behavioral Competency)
Must-Have · Overall exp of 5-15+ in IT and Reg Reporting /Investment Banking/Capital Markets Domain · Strong Hands on Experience of IT Business Analyst role involving; Requirement Gathering, Data Onboarding / Sourcing, Data Analysis, Requirement documentation, User Acceptance Testing · Hands on experience of handling Local Reg Reporting requirements for Finance or Operations including products like FX, Derivatives, Bonds, Repos, Loans, Deposits, Trade Finance etc. · Good understanding of the complete Trade Lifecycle for the above-mentioned products · Experience of working on any of the Local Regulatory Reporting requirements for APAC Regions · Good Understanding of Post Trade & Settlement Processes along with Accounting principles and standards for reporting like GAAP, IFRS etc · Knowledge of Financial Statements like Balance Sheet, Income & Loss Statement, Cashflow Statement along with other regular reports like EMIR, MIFID, DFA, CCAR, Liquidity Coverage Ratio, Large Exposures Reporting, Non Performing Assets Reporting etc. · Exposure to Functional Testing using Excel based techniques like Vlook Ups and Pivot charts for the Regulatory Data Models, Reports etc · Hands on experience in creation of BRD and FRD, Use cases, Epics, User Stories and sufficient exposure to Scrum way of working for Delivering Requirements · Good knowledge of SDLC processes, agile is must · Have exposure or known to basic SQL and sufficient hands on experience in Data Analysis using SQL, knowledge of Jira, confluence · Conducts UAT (user acceptance testing), defining testing requirements including test plans, test cases, test-data and review of interface testing between different applications. Works with developers to resolve functional issues arising from UAT. · Should be able to demonstrate accountability and ownership over and above assigned tasks · Strong analytical and logical thought process to be able to independently drive and influence positive changes
Good-to-Have
1. Self-motivated, proactive and able to work independently, perform multiple tasks and take decisions where necessary, under minimal supervision. 2. Excellent communication skills
SN Responsibility of / Expectations from the Role
· Reviews the business architecture outlining cost impacts and value drivers of feasibility studies and proposed solutions. · Defines business, process, usability and data requirements in partnership and collaboration with the users. · Utilizes agile ways of working techniques such as storyboards, feature maps and value stream maps, story point estimations, definitions of done · Produces and refines epics and user stories as part of a product backlog, leveraging story writing and story splitting best practices · Formulates and creates functional / non-functional specification documentations in close partnership with engineering teams. · Completes and elaborates functional design in accordance with the defined principles, blueprints, standards, patterns, etc. · Supports the design and conceptualization of new business solution options and articulates identified impacts and risks. · Reviews business facing documentation (e.g. user manuals, solution briefs, functional summaries). · Works with developers to prioritize, trouble shoot and resolve reported bugs/issues /CRs (change requests) on applications. · Works on data discovery, sourcing, modelling and analytics to support creation of data flows and models. This includes researching and profiling data sources in data categories of expertise. · Creates models and reports providing interpretation and insight into business data and processes. · Develops hypotheses to explain why usability, process, functional and data issues have occurred or are likely to occur. · Communicates usability and business process improvement, through application of detailed analytics, pattern and root cause analysis. Leverages visualization techniques · Self manages workload at a work stream lead level · Can act as product owners for the design and implementation of data feeds, tools and user access into a secure data lake in collaboration with clients, architecture, development, test and release management teams · Produces Data Specifications in partnership with Corporate Technology, Chief Data Office, AFC Business and Master Data source providers. · Participates in Process Improvement initiatives and Community of practice initiatives e.g. Agile Transformation. · Interact with the corporate technology governance teams for maintaining and improving processes for a secure data lake using Big Data Technologies · Performs at a work stream lead level
