Reference Data - Business Analyst - Investment Banking

Job title : Reference Data - Business Analyst

Location : Mumbai/Pune

Experience : 4 - 7 years

Job Duties :

- The company is looking for a candidate who can lead various Reference Data client mandates

- Build and maintain strong relationship with clients to understand their requirements and accordingly execute Reference data programs (design, develop and implement Reference data solutions)

- Ability to work with a team to execute reference data projects as per client mandate

- Engage with client on governance calls for the ongoing projects

Other responsibilities involve :

- Working closely with other work-stream BAs as well as the Architecture team to share knowledge and standardize the process

- Identifying and escalating design issues and risks

Qualification : Post graduate degree/diploma from a reputed institute

Skills Required :

- Experience working on re-engineering processes as part of Reference data projects within an Investment Banking environment

- The candidate should have strong understanding of client/account/instrument etc. and understand its usage in front to back applications and Regulatory Reporting

- Strong understanding of regulation driven and BAU reference data programs related to client and instrument data, SSI, trade related legal contracts and various regulations impacting the same

- Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements under Basel framework, FATCA, DFA, EMIR, MiFID etc

- Strong exposure to client on-boarding processes including regulatory checks such as AML, KYC, OFAC, PEP and related reference data systems

- Extensive experience as a project manager or business analyst working on reference data-related projects in the Financial Services industry

- Good competency in business requirements gathering, solution design, planning, and implementation preferably in large scale global programs

- Good understanding of Banking operations, Trade Management systems, and Risk Management systems

- Good analytical and problem solving skills along with good verbal and written communication skills

- Ability to work with colleagues across global locations

- Candidate should have strong project management & execution experience and the ability to structure, scope, and develop solutions to complex problems

- Business Analysis/Project Management Certifications

About CRISIL GR&A: CRISIL Global Research & Analytics (GR&A) is the largest and top-ranked provider of high end research and analytics services to the world's leading commercial and investment banks, insurance companies, corporations, consulting firms, private equity firms and asset management firms. CRISIL GR&A operates from research centers in Argentina, China, India and Poland, providing research support across several time zones and in multiple languages to global organizations. It has deep expertise in the areas of equity and fixed income research (covering global economies, 150 global sectors and over 3000 global companies), credit analysis, exotic derivatives valuation, structured finance, risk modeling and management, actuarial analysis and business intelligence.

CRISIL GR&A includes Irevna, Pipal Research and Coalition, firms which were acquired by CRISIL. For more information, please visit www.irevna.com, www.pipalresearch.com and www.coalition.com