Roles and Responsibilities

We are hiring Business Analyst for IT Group for Finance and Risk Engineering Solutions for a leading investment bank in India.

Direct Responsibilities

• Understanding data sources, composition, rules of reporting required by different applications and ensuring data completeness & accuracy.

• Creating a detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for a business.

• Ensuring that data is seamlessly available for head office reporting purposes. This involves tracing data, extracting, transformation, analysis and enrichment.

• Reconciling data sets & trace data evolution through complex transformation processes.

• The role involves performing root cause analysis on CHANGE the BANK and RUN the BANK issues.

• Preparing functional specifications, proof of concepts, test cases for reports and enhancements in the General Ledger platforms, Finance systems and Risk System.

• Create and establish processes and handoffs between different global & local teams.

• Lead or participate in multiple evolutions & projects, updating project documentation; managing project scope; adjusting schedules when necessary; determining daily priorities; ensuring efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones.

• Liaise between Operations and IT to assist or gather business requirements needed for system modifications, enhancement and implementations.

• Should be well aware about standard IT processes and methodologies such as SDLC, Agile and SCRUM

• Basic understanding of ETL (Extract, transform, load) framework

Contributing Responsibilities

• Preparing status reports, communication broadcasts, and process reengineering, identifying automation & efficiency initiatives.

Data Analyst

• Ability to source, transform and analyze large data sets.

• Experience in reconciliations and tracing data elements through transformation processes is critical.

• Ability to identify issues, develop solutions, manage short term and permanent fixes

• Record experiences and develop operating procedures.

Business Analytical skills

• Eliciting user requirements and transforming them to functional specifications/Change requirements.

• Preparing business test cases.

• Liaising with the development team on the production queries & enhancements.

• Managing testing and deployment.

• Experience with software development life cycle & implementation

• Develop processes combining applications & people interactions

Technical Skills

• Ability to work with large data sets in MS Excel/Ms Access and corresponding tools and formulae like pivots, lookups etc.

• Ability to use data processing tools for data transformation

• Understand database concepts – tables, master & referential data, building primary keys etc

• Primary Skills : Alteryx Tool, SQL

• Miscellaneous: Awareness about tools such as Tableau, PowerBI & RPA is nice to have

• MS Access & VBA skills are preferable.

Behavioral Competencies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Conduct meetings with global stakeholders, prepare minutes & summaries.

• Assertiveness, Negotiation, Proactiveness & Prioritization skills are important.

• Discipline in documenting, following-up on issues and changes.

• Experience in interacting with global stakeholders and independently managing discussions.

• Accounting and Finance concepts and awareness of Credit Risk, IFRS reporting concepts, Finance head-office reporting processes.

Qualifications

• B.E., MCA ,MBA in finance or equivalent degree