Business Analyst - Market Risk Systems (VaR) - Investment Banking - London

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Business Analyst - Market Risk Systems (VaR) - Investment Banking

We are looking for a Business Analyst within Risk Systems - ideally Market Risk VaR experience. Counterparty or Credit Risk systems expertise may also be considered.

As a Business Analyst within Risk Systems, the candidate is responsible for driving the following activities on their portfolio of projects:

Responsibilities:-

Requirements gathering and functional architecture design:

Participates, in relation with a wide range of stakeholders (Quant teams, Risk Managers, Front Office) to understand and document business requirements, document changes to technology systems and contributes to functional architecture of software systems

Leverage on desktop tools to extract and analyse data to understand current state and specify changes

Design diagrams to communicate different aspects of functional architecture to stakeholders.

Participates to the Business validation of the needs throughout the entire process and to the validation of the dependencies with all stakeholders

Technical solution facilitation:

Contributes to the relationship with development teams within RS to ensure requirements are understood and technology solutions are designed and built to a high-quality standard

Other:

Design and execute testing plans for solutions to validate that business requirements have been met and system performance meets expectations

Contributes, with the help of RISK Systems Service Transition to the deployment of new solutions to production environments, including user on-boarding and training as well as supporting the development of operating models

Provide custom analysis to help the bank respond to regulatory enquires or estimate potential cost and complexity of future software deliveries

4+ Years Experience Required:-

Technical skills and qualifications

Excellent academic background

Understanding of either Market, - VaR - Counterparty or Credit Risk disciplines

Knowledge of software project delivery/SAFe methodology

Understanding and experience of working with IT systems

Knowledge of Risk Methodologies

SQL knowledge, Software development being a plus

Soft skills

Proficient written & oral communication with the ability to tailor presentation of complex information to a range of different audiences

Excellent organisational and time management skills