Lead Business Analyst

About BNP Paribas India Solutions:

Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, European Union’s leading bank with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. India Solutions services three business lines: Corporate and Institutional Banking, Investment Solutions and Retail Banking for BNP Paribas across the Group. Driving innovation and growth, we are harnessing the potential of over 10000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.

About BNP Paribas Group:

 BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group’s commercial & personal banking and several specialised businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment, and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At BNP Paribas, we passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued, respected and can bring their authentic selves to work. We prohibit Discrimination and Harassment of any kind and our policies promote equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, irrespective of, but not limited to their gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, colour, national origin, age, religion, social status, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status etc. As a global Bank, we truly believe that inclusion and diversity of our teams is key to our success in serving our clients and the communities we operate in.

About Business line/Function:

To ensure the stability of financial markets required for the real economy to grow, regulators are increasingly targeting at Banks to provide more comprehensive and more frequent information on their activities. As a privileged partner for the regulators, the Finance department sees its reporting process reinvented. The FRESH APAC LRR team, located at the junction of Finance and IT, is responsible for designing and maintaining solutions.

Job Title:

Lead Business Analyst

Date:

14/03/2024

Department:

ITG-FRESH

Location:

Mumbai/Bengaluru

Business Line / Function:

FDS-APAC-LRR

Reports to:

(Direct)

Assistant Vice President

Grade:

(if applicable)

Manager & above

(Functional)

Number of Direct Reports:

N/A

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

The Regulatory Reporting team is ramping up to about 20 members to address the ambitious project of standardizing the activity for APAC region. This long-term project involves the reporting of Balance Sheet, P&L, Capital, and a more recent and intense focus on liquidity, especially Basel III LCR requirement.

Our team captures reporting requirements from the users located all across APAC, comes up with efficient propositions, implements solution and follows up to guarantee user comfort on the long run.

To operate efficiently, the team is constituted of complementing profiles: Business Analysts understand the logic from the users and develop the reports, data managers are the reference for data sourcing, SMEs develop complex logic components and enhance the solution framework and project managers orchestrate the work and communication on the progress. Collective discussions on the design/strategy and agile approach to project ensure the best compromise between long term robustness and immediate usability of the solution.

The in-house (custom-developed by the team) platform, Flexel, is a highly flexible and user-friendly Regulatory Reporting Platform, supporting 700+ Finance and Operation’s regulatory reports across 9 countries. The wide spectrum of reports includes but not limited to - Balance Sheet, P&L, Large Exposure, Granular Data Repository, BASEL III reporting (e.g. LCR) and that makes up the massive user community.

Responsibilities

 

Direct Responsibilities

Regional Regulatory Reporting Project :

•    To gather complex accounting/ business requirement and able to articulate in clear manner

•    To perform in-depth data analysis to support the business case

•    To keep the design documentation and data dictionary up to date

•    To perform/support system testing (e.g. SIT & UAT)

•    To prepare system documentation (e.g. technical/ function spec, user guide)

•    To analysis, develop and configure the regional regulatory reporting application platform for automating local regulatory reports

To provide L3 business support to APAC regional regulatory reporting applications and resolve production incident and user queries

Process Reengineering and Platform Development:

•    To perform data analysis, data modelling & process automation

•    To contribute on data transformation, system module design & development

Assist to Project Management :

·        Maintain the projects documentation

·        Ensure regular and efficient communication within the project team and to the stakeholders

·        Coordinate the contributions from the various parties to ensure the planning is followed

·        Ensure escalations are made timely to avoid unnecessary time/budget slippage

Host the end user workshop and project steering committee

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Essential Knowledge/Skills :

•    Proven experience on technical tools for functional investigation, advanced excel / SQL query and best practices associated.

•   Quick learner, self-initiative and good team player

•    Sense of ownership to tasks assigned and commit to deadlines under pressure

•    Analytical, lateral thinker, attentive to details and result-oriented person

·        Fluency in English (verbal/written) and with good communication & interpersonal skills

Skills Referential

Behavioural

Skills

: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Organizational skills

Ability to deliver / Results driven

Creativity & Innovation / Problem solving

Transversal Skills:

(Please select up to 5 skills)

Ability to manage a project

Ability to inspire others & generate people's commitment

Ability to develop others & improve their skills

Ability to develop and adapt a process

Ability to manage / facilitate a meeting, seminar, committee, training…

Education Level:

Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 10 years

Qualifications and Experiences:

•        Degree in Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics or any other related subjects

•        Minimum of 8+ years’ experience in Accounting, Banking or Financial Industry, preferably Finance / Risk / IT area;

•        Experiences in project management, data analysis, system implementation project

•        Solid backgrounds in banking project with a good understanding of accounting, banking product and front to back system flow.

Other Preferred Competencies (not mandatory):

•        Experience with programming projects would be an advantage

•        CPA, CFA or other related professional certificates

•        PMP, Scrum Master, Agile or other related project certificates

•        Financial industry, regulatory/ financial reporting exposure

Other IT skills: Programming language (Java, Python) / Excel Macro/ Workflow tool (e.g. Alteryx)