AddressOur client a Global Investment Bank is looking to hire a Business Analystto be part of its Front Office Risk team. The Front office Risk Team covers various gamut of Risk and capital Management activities for trades and positions of its portfolios across asset classes such as Equities, Securitized Products, Rates, FX, and Credit.
The Business Analyst will be part of a sub-team within the Risk team which looks at business side design and development of the firm's strategic risk database platform. This platform is a business critical system and has been adopted by a number of Market facing teams and Corporate functions including Front office Risk, Credit & Market Risk and Finance, as part of the Data Strategy in rationalizing Trade, Risk and Valuation data feeds. As a result of this extensive usage, there has been a substantial increase in data analysis, new data requests, testing, data quality checks and governance of data.
Role & Responsibilities :
1. Work closely with the Data Officer & Special Projects team supporting the team leads.
2. Support business analysis for all requirements raised by the data consumers and projects, including but not limited to:
- Risk & Regulatory Projects
- Investigation of data issues
- Implementation of Data Quality checks and reconciliations
- Creation of JIRAs based on technical implementation of user requirements after consulting with the data platform SMEs
- Creating and maintaining documentation
- Ad-hoc data analysis
3. Analyse front to back data flows across front office systems and back office. Actively participate in release cycles and testing.
Mandatory and Preferred Skills and Experience:
1. Experience in a Risk Management related role would be preferred - Mandatory
2. Strong analytical skills and ability to explain business requirements to IT teams in clear terms - Mandatory.
3. The person should have good communication skill as the job will involve a permanent interaction with the traders and all the support functions - Mandatory.
4. Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and coordinate across various system users.
5. Technical Skills - SQL (Mandatory), Python ( Preferred ).
