Business Analyst - Regulatory Reporting Domain

Major keywords should be there.

BA + Regulatory Reporting + Agile (Waterfall, Scrum, Confluence, JIRA, Etc)

For regulatory reporting - RTB, MIFID, Back Testing, Stress Testing, EMIR, APAC, HKMA, AMF, Finra, RTS 22, RTS 23, SFTR, CAD, SMIA, OTC Derivative, Trade life cycle, JFSA, MAS, ASIC.

The Team:

- Client is a leading global bank & their Global Regulatory reporting team is responsible for ensuring that bank have a best in class Regulatory Reporting infrastructure including a robust controls & monitoring mechanism.

- The role is very broad in terms of coverage and requires strong delivery skills, the ability to break down complex issues, provide solutions, as well as excellent communications, influencing and negotiating skills - across senior levels of the bank. You will be called upon to address high-profile, high-impact, cross line of business regulatory demands.

- You will work with our business stakeholders, perform deep-dive analysis to provide and drive consensus for solutions, and coordinate with our technology partners to deliver the solutions. You will partner extensively with the lines of business, Legal, Compliance, Audit, Technology, etc. The candidate should be able to work independently but as part of the wider team. This role provides extensive cross-functional and cross-business exposure, and the opportunity to work on emerging regulations.

Key Responsibilities :

As a Business Analyst, key responsibilities for your own projects as well as oversight and training for junior associates on their projects are as per below:

- Detailed business analysis/requirements definition and handover to Tech using the Agile Scrum methodology

- Interpreting and assessing the impact of regulatory requirements

- Analyse existing Regulatory Reporting processes, challenge operating models and propose strategic solutions, ensuring alignment to our guiding principles of building next generation reporting platform

- Assessing and recommending options, including opportunities to leverage strategic solutions, drive efficiency improvements and identifying required controls and operating models when tactical solutions are demanded.

- Present business case, problem statement to senior management and drive the resolution

- Direct, daily interaction with Business SME's and Technology teams, to manage the information flow and delivery of key project milestones

- Contribution to the definition and execution of the project delivery model to ensure efficient delivery across the global program teams in an Agile development environment

- Ownership of user stories in the Product Backlog, contributing to design and solution discussions and helping to ensure priorities are set appropriately

- Functional management of technology Feature Teams, allocating workload and validating output (including the defining and testing requirements)

- Working with Controls teams to assist in the definition of the Control framework and Operating Models for all deliveries, ensuring alignment to our over-arching strategic principles

Essential Skills:

To be successful in this role your skill set should include:

- Business analyst competencies, including impact assessment, analysis of business processes and data flows, production of business requirements and their solutions

- An ability to define complex regulatory requirements at data attribute, reporting logic and core capability requirements level

- Ability to approach complex problems in a structured way, driving through solutions across multiple lines of business and technology teams

- Project management experience is an advantage as there may be elements of the work that will require the use of basic project management competencies

- Be able to build strong working relationships in a time-pressured environment

- Come from a business analysis background; be able to demonstrate deep product knowledge in at least one asset class and broad knowledge of products across Corporate and Investment Bank.

- Be comfortable working with ambiguity and using your negotiating and influencing skills to drive delivery across a variety of teams and at all management levels

- Have a background in project work, demonstrating how you operate effectively to overcome issues and deliver to deadlines

- Have core business analysis skills developed through previous experience in this field of work

- Have an excellent appreciation of Regulatory Reporting and be comfortable in critiquing design and control requirements

- Demonstrate Leadership capabilities and work with the team with ability build & maintain productive working relationships with colleagues at all levels and across functions in a collaborative manner in order to achieve results, as well as ability to manage prioritization

- Ability to work both autonomously and flexibly without day to day supervision making the appropriate key decisions

- Fluent written and oral communication skills, strong and confident communicator

- Exposure to following areas will be an added advantage,

- Exposure to Regulatory Reporting automation

- Understanding of Agile Software Development methodology

- Exposure of MIFID/EMIR/APAC etc.