Business Analyst

Job Title: Assistant Manager – Business Analyst

Department: ITG-ITTF -FRS

About Business line/Function: To ensure the stability of financial markets required for the real economy to grow, regulators are increasingly targeting Banks to provide more comprehensive and more frequent information on their activities. As a privileged partner for the regulators, the Finance department sees its reporting process reinvented. The FRESH APAC LRR team, located at the junction of Finance and IT, is responsible for designing and maintaining solutions

Position Purpose: The Regulatory Reporting team is ramping up to about 20 members to address the ambitious project of standardizing the activity for APAC region. This long-term project involves the reporting of Balance Sheet, P&L, Capital, and a more recent and intense focus on liquidity, especially Basel III LCR requirement.

Our team captures reporting requirements from the users located across APAC, comes up with efficient propositions, implements solution and follows up to guarantee user comfort on the long run.

To operate efficiently, the team is constituted of complementing profiles: business analysts understand the logic from the users and develop the reports, data managers are the reference for data sourcing, SMEs develop complex logic components and enhance the solution framework and project managers orchestrate the work and communication on the progress. Collective discussions on the design/strategy and agile approach to project ensure the best compromise between long term robustness and immediate usability of the solution.

The in-house (custom-developed by the team) platform, Flexel, is a highly flexible and user-friendly Regulatory Reporting Platform, supporting 700+ Finance and Operation's regulatory reports across 9 countries. The wide spectrum of reports includes but not limited to - Balance Sheet, P&L, Large Exposure, Granular Data Repository, BASEL III reporting (e.g. LCR) and that makes up the massive user community.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Regional Regulatory Reporting Project:
• Hand on experience of BA working model and knowledge of SDLC cycles.
• Able to pick up and implement the project methodology as per project standard guidelines
• To drive the user requirement gathering process and the analysis accordingly.
• Design and Develop solution on In-House Workflow design/development management application to create generate/ populate regulatory reports/ templates
• To identify the project priority/ constraint for the project plan.
• To keep the solution's global functional design documentation and data dictionary up to date.
• To guide various project actors through the functional documentation and participate in the architecture decision.
• To streamline processes and challenge practices in front of entity CFOs.
• To contribute to a long-term sustainable design
• To perform/support system testing (e.g. SIT & UAT)
• Perform release preparation & documentation
• Exposure to Agile model, Scrum and Kanban processes
• Participate in Whiteboard, and Follow Jira Workflows etc.
• To help Project Manager by providing expertise on the complexity of proposed design, estimation on workload/timelines for our team as well as other contributors, insight on issues faced and related remediation
• To provide functional support to users and APS on incidents and user queries for timely resolution
• Ready to learn new technology/tool to perform automations
  
  

Contributing Responsibilities

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Essential Knowledge/Skills (Mandatory)

Technical (Mandatory)

• SQL
• MS Excel
  
  

Specific Qualifications

Good to have

Functional

• Financial Markets
• Banking Fundamentals
• Regulatory Reporting
• Accounting /Product Knowledge
  
  

Functional

• Financial Markets
• Banking Fundamentals
• Regulatory Reporting
  
  

Technical Skills

Skills Referential (Required knowledge, skills and abilities)

• Skill 1: Workflow design
  

Behavioral Skills

• Skill 1: Communication skills - oral & written
• Skill 2: Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
• Skill 3: Attention to detail / rigor
• Skill 4: Creativity & Innovation / Problem solving
  

Education Level: Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Location: Mumbai

About BNP Paribas Group

BNP Paribas is the European Union's leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group's commercial & personal banking and several specialized businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment, and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability.

About BNP Paribas India Solutions

Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, European Union's leading bank with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. India Solutions services three business lines: Corporate and Institutional Banking, Investment Solutions and Retail Banking for BNP Paribas across the Group. Driving innovation and growth, we are harnessing the potential of over 10000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At BNP Paribas, we passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued, respected and can bring their authentic selves to work. We prohibit Discrimination and Harassment of any kind and our policies promote equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, irrespective of, but not limited to their gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, colour, national origin, age, religion, social status, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status etc. As a global Bank, we truly believe that inclusion and diversity of our teams is key to our success in serving our clients and the communities we operate in. As a global Bank, we truly believe that inclusion and diversity of our teams is key to our success in serving our clients and the communities we operate in.