Business Analyst[Credit Risk / Market Risk / Investment Banking]

Role  
Business Analyst – Market Risk
      Key  Deliverables The role involves:
 

• Proactively identifying and documenting business requirements from key business stakeholders.
• Performing market risk analysis activities to validate data definitions and to support functional and non-functional requirements.
• Producing functional requirements for IT implementation.
• Work in partnership with IT teams to define business solutions that deliver functional and non-functional requirements.
• Ownership of functional issue resolution through the project delivery lifecycle
• Take responsibility for timely resolution of emerging methodology requirements.
• Facilitate issue resolution to ensure release schedule remains on track and functional issues are solved through appropriate solutions
• User Acceptance Testing including creating test plans, defect tracking and resolution and testing changes to core risk calculation engine used in daily VaR production team and calculation of regulatory capital.
• Work effectively in and leading working groups with diverse Business stakeholders and their teams to ensure requirements and priorities are successfully met.
• Defining and documenting procedures and training to support new business processes and applications.

• Understanding of systems delivery lifecycles and delivery methodologies
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Business analysis experience in risk management systems
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy and timeliness of delivery
• Good understanding and experience of VaR methodology, Stressed VaR , capital calculations and market risk concepts
• Appreciation of systems and data architectures in Risk, preferably in Market Risk
• Effective stakeholder management
• Independent and able to work with little supervision
• Ability to communicate successfully
• Team player, ambitious and focussed
• Financial Services change experience in market risk management and preferably within Investment Banking environment.
• Track record of defining clear and comprehensive requirements
• Successful definition of innovative functional and technical solutions