Business Analyst/AVP - Counterparty Credit Risk

Business Analyst_AVP - Counterparty Credit Risk

Responsibilities :

- Understand the current system and data architecture, identify future needs and create solutions to help meet those needs.

- Play a key role in communicating between teams (users, IT, PMs, CDO, BAs in other departments).

- Create 'best in class' suggestions for strategic and operational improvements and changes which can be consistently and cost-effectively deployed

- Ensure that when the solution is delivered, the business truly owns that this is what they wanted and is prepared to use it

- Weigh opportunities and potential risks attached to suggestions made

- Identify, understand and evaluate the processes and information technology changes required to introduce the recommendations

- Seek for standardization of systems, processes and operational models and their alignment to those of the Group and/or the Region, to generate efficiencies and economies of scale and deliver consistent high quality service across all Businesses

- Produce clear and complete written documentation to support the work, report on the findings and present to stakeholders. Archiving them as well for future reference (eg. Internal and external audit reviews)

- Support users in making your recommended changes, including help to resolve any issues. Run workshops and training sessions

- Ensure plans are made and processes are created to evaluate the impact of the changes made

Qualifications :

- Graduate/ Post Graduate with minimum 6-10 years of banking experience

- Relevant experience of 5+ years as a Business Analyst, preferably in BFSI

- Proven successful track record as a Business Analyst in the Risk area

- Knowledge in Credit risk is required, to facilitate the understanding of the context of the projects and be able to understand and assess the stakes. This would include knowledge of the type of data required to build credit risk models (PD/LGD/EAD), the role of these models in managing credit risk and the key regulatory drivers for such models (Eg: Basel III)

- Knowledge of Reporting / Analysis & Data management is preferred

- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; Must be able to produce high quality communication, conveying the right level of information to the appropriate audience

- Have an Agile mindset with constant target to deliver more value to customers effectively and efficiently

- Well organized and able to multi-task effectively and efficiently

- Ability to solve problem & clearly articulate requirements and implement and drive solutions

- Comfortable in working with global virtual teams across different geographies, culture and time-zones

- Strong inter-personal skills; ability to handle conflict and manage expectations