Description
Business analyst, market risk, investment banking, capital markets, SDLC, VaR.
One of the leading IT services and consulting companies worldwide, Capgemini operates in 44 countries, with over 135,000 people across the globe and 2014 revenues of over 10 billion Euros.
Capgemini Financial Services is looking for a market risk IT business analyst to join a capital markets team that are responsible for the development of risk applications for market risk managers. These systems may involve mathematical modelling and simulation techniques, reports, and feeds to and from risk and Front Office systems. Products covered in these systems include, but are not limited to, equities, bonds, convertible bonds, credit default swaps, swaps, FX, FX options, ABS and CDOs.
The role:
This role is for an analyst working as part of team responsible for delivering a new market risk infrastructure, with the aim of replacing existing market risk systems and processes and providing a single scalable and flexible production process for market risk sensitivity reporting.
The analyst must form effective working relationships with other analysts, developers and clients in the risk management community.
Primary responsibilities:
- Analyse and produce functional specifications arising from the requirements of users.
- Develop and execute test plans for integration testing to ensure business requirements have been met.
- Analyse and respond to complex queries and issues from risk managers and other users relating not only to current projects but also to runtime system functionality and future concepts/ideas.
Skills & experience required:
- Significant working experience in an investment bank
- Previous experience in Risk Management IT or Product Control IT
- Familiarity with the Project Management or Software Development Life Cycle
- Datamodelling (UML or ER diagramming)
- SQL experience
- MS Excel
- Exposure to Business Intelligence technologies and automated testing products advantageous.
- Sound Market Risk Management knowledge and experience. VaR, risk sensitivities and stress testing
- Comprehensive understanding of financial products and their corresponding risks.
Apply now for immediate consideration.