Business Analyst

Business Analyst - Risk Data and Reporting

 

 

Role Summary/Purpose

 

We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to define the requirements and provide project oversight for all the data management aspects of our Interest Rate Risk Management (IRRM) initiatives. The individual should come from a Finance, Capital Markets, or Risk Management background. He/she should have good data skills both in terms of understanding the business as well as the technical implementation.

 

Essential Responsibilities

 

This individual will be working on a project to source data from our various businesses, including the global banks, into data repositories maintained by our team. The person will need to provide leadership to data architects, BI developers, offshore consultants and vendor resources.


The individual should have excellent oral and written communication skills as they will be asked to interact with individuals at all levels. They will need to work with our functional partners and various IT teams to define requirements, write design documents, test cases and other project materials.

 

·  Face-off with senior business partners to document requirements and report status as needed

·  Produce project documents using MS Project, PowerPoint, Word and Visio.

·  Lead the IT team in producing design documentation including Data Models and other technical documentation.

·  Develop a deep understanding of Treasury data and its use within the Risk and Reporting solutions.

·  Train and educate our functional partners on the use of the various Treasury systems and data sources.

·  Analyze existing end-user applications and look for opportunities to migrate them to Enabling Technologies strategic platforms.

·  Partner with the business to create business requirements and define scope and phases.

 

Qualifications/Requirements

 

·  Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information System, Finance or engineering related discipline.

·  5+ years’ experience working in the financial industry or related field.

·  The individual should have a background in Finance, Capital Markets or Risk management.

·  Knowledge of banking products including loan, lease, mortgage, real estate and credit card data.

·  Strong client-facing skills with the ability to work with senior management on a day-to-day basis.

·  Excellent client-facing, communication and presentation skills.

·  Capable of working with the business to document requirements and project scope.

·  Experience creating project documents such as project plans, status updates, functional and technical specification and PowerPoint presentations.

·  Able to lead technical team with both onshore and offshore resources and provide oversight over the creation of the technical design and build phases of the project.

·  Working with a vendor to map and integrate internal data into their financial software product being used for ALM and Interest Rate Risk Management.

·  Hands-on experience doing detailed data analysis using SQL, Excel an MS Access.

·  Experience delivering enterprise data solutions using a major database such as Oracle or MS SQL.

·  Familiarity with other data technologies including reporting tools such as Cognos, Business Objects, MicroStrategy and others.

 

Desired Characteristics

 

·  Risk Management including either market risk or credit risk

·  Fixed Income and Bond Fundamentals

·  Experience with General Ledger / Balance Sheet analysis and reporting

·  Data Modeling experience including the use of Erwin, ER Studio and Visio

·  Understanding of financial modeling and analytics