Job Title: Business Analyst - Hedge Accounting under FM Domain

Job Description:

The Risk and Finance solutions team requires a Business Analyst to work on business analysis, solutions, and design across liquidity risk and balance sheet management systems for a range of regulatory and technical optimization requirements. The successful candidate will be an experienced technology business analyst/solution engineer with experience in a global banking environment on large scale and complex system architectures.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

- Help business in scoping requirements and apprise them of various solutions alternatives to set achievable requirements which meet business objectives

- Work with technology, vendor, and business change teams to gain an in-depth understanding of the end-to-end system implementation, architecture, and liquidity risk/BSM business processes

- Collaborate closely with development and partner engineering teams

- Document and present systems solution designs and architecture

- Prepare detailed component functional specifications in line with bank standards

- Conduct impact analysis and create solutions managing technology impact and clearly document and raise assumptions/risks

- Define cost-effective and detailed technology solutions that meet scoped business requirements in line with guiding principles and bank standards

- Provide support and guidance across all phases of the project lifecycle, including assistance defining test strategy/plans, data migration strategy, release planning, etc.

- Support release implementations on weekends when necessary

- Assist with urgent ad-hoc business requirements

- Drive technology design towards consolidated and simplified integration architecture

- Conduct solution training and walk-through for business stakeholders

- Build relationships with key stakeholders, both business and technology

- Ensure timely and clear communications to management

Qualifications & Skills:

- Ten years plus experience as a Business Analyst in Financial Markets/Hedge Accounting/Liquidity Domain

- Knowledge of financial markets products and their lifecycle (Trade booking, settlement, risk management)

- Strong experience in trading book risk, risk simulation, hedging, and price/limit risk

- Proven experience of working in the Financial Markets/global banking environment

- Experience with regulatory environments is a plus

- Hands-on experience across requirement gathering/analysis, high-level design, functional specification, end-to-end BA support (development and quality assurance phase), functional root cause analysis and solutioning, data sourcing, mapping from various systems, and hands-on design and solutioning experience as BA

- Experience with large scale system upgrades and/or re-engineering programs involving significant changes in architecture

- Knowledge of database technologies such as Oracle and understanding of data modeling concepts

- Proven ability to plan and organize own workload to deliver in a challenging environment with many dependencies and multiple demanding stakeholders

Desirable but not Essential:

- Experience with Teradata and its underlying FSLDM data model; exposure to Axiom, Microstrategy, Tableau and other similar reporting & data visualization tools

- Knowledge of high performance computing/grid technologies and architecture such as Hadoop/data synapse/coherence

- Previous experience as a software developer