Description
NK079 Senior Business Analyst (Securities Settlement) Banking, Brussels
Background:
My client, a large bank in Brussels, is seeking a Business/Functional Analyst to join the Application Development team (securities settlement, treasury management, T2S, credit assessment and monitoring, liquidity management, banking).
You will interface between end-users and IT professionals in order to develop the requirements of mission critical business services and IT applications, to test them and to participate in their implementation.
TASKS:
To produce detailed business requirements (DBR):
- understand the expectations and needs of the business (internal and external users);
- analyze the impact and the risks of a new service development on the current business/system and be able to make the business aware of their own interests and the implications of their decision or request;
- identify, describe and validate business solutions to meet clients and end users requirements;
- pay attention to having the right trade-off between quality, cost and timeliness;
- to facilitate communication between the business and the implementers of the solution (IT) during the project delivery phase;
To be involved in the testing of the designed solution:
- define the scope of the testing;
- develop business test scenarios and review test cases prepared by testers;
- participate to the test execution handled by testers to ensure that requirements have been correctly implemented;
- provide support to the end-users (within the bank) during the User Acceptance Test (UAT).
SKILLS:
Minimum 5-years experience in the financial sector as a business/functional analyst;
Knowledge of securities settlement, treasury management, T2S, credit assessment and monitoring, liquidity management, banking, Back Office functions.
Previous experience in investment banking, asset management, stock exchange or an ICSD (International Centralised Securities Depositary or similar, eg. Crest, Euroclear, Clearstream, LCH Clearnet, etc) will be a big plus!
Additional skills required:
strong negotiation and conflict management skills
very good knowledge of English language
organisational skills and capacity to work autonomously
You know how to:
build constructive relationships with all stakeholders, both inside and outside of the bank (IT, Product BAs, Operations)
organize/drive meetings with Senior people from various Divisions
create clear and concise documentation (business requirements specifications and other documentation)
communicate with technical projects teams
Assets:
experience in Scrum/Agile methodology + offshore work
experience in User Interface Design
Ref; NK079
Location: Brussels
Duration: 6 months extendable
Salary: euros per day
Language: English