Finance IT Business Analyst – Top Tier Bank recruitment

A Business Analyst with a good knowledge of Finance, Product Control, Accountancy, PL, Sub Ledger, General Ledger and related systems is required for a top tier investment bank to work on a multi-year, bank wide Ledger re-engineering programme.

This role will initially be focused on the design and deployment of a brand new platform used by the business to manage Profit and Loss (PL) / Risk for Equities and Fixed Income globally, this programme is being rolled out globally and will involve leasing with offshore teams, and geographically spread out business users.

Key duties will include

•           Interaction with the various business groups within Finance, Accounting and Legal to ensure full understanding of requirements.

•           Understanding of platform architecture and principles. Challenge business requirements that don’t meet the platform goals.

•           Articulate business requirements and develop and deliver functional specifications including management of business and IT signoffs.

•           Understand the front to back trade flows beyond that of the PL application

•           Communication of functional design to global development team

•           Ownership of application issues that are raised during testing cycles. Manage and report issue status to stakeholders

•           Implementation of standards and processes to streamline future rollouts and deliveries

•           Regular status reporting to the PL Programme Manager

Essential Requirements

•           Some understanding of Finance, Accounting or PL.

•           Significant Business Analyst experience.

•           Experience liaising with the business.

•           Knowledge of SQL

Ideal requirements

•           Some exposure to Project Delivery/Project Management

•           Numerate degree at 2:1 or above

•           Consulting experience

•           High level experience with Structured Methodologies; UML, Agile, Waterfall, RUP Six Sigma, Use Cases etc.

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