Business Analyst – RAR Risk Process Change Management recruitment
Job Title: Business Analyst (10 Months Contract) RAR : Risk Process Change
Location: Singapore
Job Description
Key responsibilities:
The Risk Process Change Management team in Singapore is looking for a Business Analyst to work on a
CRO Data Quality Management initiative.
The ideal candidate will meet the defined attributes for the role and display a high degree of energy,
enthusiasm in analysis and logical thinking.
Job Scope includes:
- Working with stakeholders to define Credit Market risk, risk data requirements
- Analyzing Trade and Sensitivity risk data quality
- Identifying and tracking risk data quality issues
- Assessing impact of data quality issues on risk reporting
- Develop test case and liaise with stakeholder to obtain sign off for any system release
- Project management tasks including reporting on deliverables, milestones, risks and issues
Division/Department Overview
Department Overview:
Risk Analytics and Reporting is a unit within the CRO Division. The function is located across all major Credit Suisse locations and is responsible for:
(1) Market and credit risk information management market risk reporting;
(2) Credit risk measurement;
(3) Independent risk model validation across all areas of CRO;
(3) Credit risk reporting;
(4) Managing development and implementation of risk systems; and
(5) Regulatory change and coordination, establishing policies covering market risk, credit risk and operational risk.
The Risk Process Change Management Team is part of the Risk Analytics and Reporting (RAR) team in CRO.
The team has overall responsibility for defining and managing regional and global change across the various credit and market risk systems for CRO.
Specifically, the Risk Process Change Management team is responsible for:
- Working with CRO IT to design and implement target state Risk data, process and technology architectures.
- Ensuring that CRO projects are managed in a consistent and structured manner across the various teams
- Working with other CRO teams on business and functional analysis of system and process change required to support
strategic and regulatory changes
- Working with CRO IT to conduct functional testing of deliverables to ensure all requirements are accurately delivered
- Typically working as a point of contact between the line and CRO IT on a particular project, RPCM acts as a
facilitator for risk management and issue resolution to enable projects to advance
- Ensuring tactical changes are appropriately balanced against strategic initiatives for the CRO line functions
- Aligning business processes and technical architecture to business needs
- Ensuring that projects are effectively prioritised across the division and resources (CRO Line, CRO IT and RCPM) are allocated accordingly
Qualifications
Education / Experience:
- University Graduate with good honors degree
- A degree in Finance/Accountancy is a plus but not mandatory
- 3 - 6 years relevant work experience in Financial Institutions preferred
- Business Analysis experience with a leading consulting firm within financial services with prior project management and testing experience would be advantageous.
Skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Data quality analysis and assessment experience
- Strong issue resolution skills
- System implementation/ projects experience
- Keen eye for detail and strong issue resolution skills
- Proficiency in MS Excel
- Either market or credit risk data quality analysis experience would be advantageous
- Good understanding IB products, especially derivatives data would be advantageous
- Excelent communication skill to liase with peer and senior management would be advantageous
Personal Qualities
- Good team player – The team has a reputation of being able to deliver with quality and upholding these high standards individually and as a team will be given the highest priority
- Good interpersonal skills – Confident, strong communication skills with good work attitude, proactive
- Effective time management - Able to work under pressure and meet project deadlines
- Strong Analytical skills – Investigate issues with attention to details and accuracy