Job Description

Description - External

Description - External

About BNP Paribas Group:

BNP Paribas is a top-ranking bank in Europe with an international profile. It operates in 71 countries and has almost 199 000 employees. The Group ranks highly in its three core areas of activity: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail banking networks and financial services are grouped together under Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, centred on corporate and institutional clients. The Group helps all of its clients (retail, associations, businesses, SMEs, large corporates and institutional) to implement their projects by providing them with services in financing, investment, savings and protection. In its Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial Services activities, BNP Paribas enjoys leading positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and has a solid and fast-growing network in the Asia/Pacific region.

About BNP Paribas India Solutions:

Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, a leading bank in Europe 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 6000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.

About Businessline/Function :

The Global Markets business of BNP Paribas helps its corporate and institutional clients leverage capital markets across the globe for their financing, risk management and investment needs. This encompasses a wide range of financial products ranging from Foreign exchange to complex Equity Derivatives that are traded in financial markets across the globe 24/7. IT systems are integral to the business and are a key part of the value proposition to clients. These IT systems range from industry standard products for standard process automation to internally developed, often, market leading IT applications. The IT teams owning these IT systems are made up of functions that include Technical and Application production support, Business Analysis & Project Management, Development & Maintenance and Quality Control. BNP Paribas India Solutions is an equal partner in these IT functions along with colleagues in other locations including Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, Singapore & Hong Kong. This partnership ranges from sharing the IT workload, executing global strategy to owning global applications offshore. The technology and engineering landscape is wide, encompassing almost all techniques and platforms. It continues to evolve and transform with the market with the business continuing to invest in it.

Job Title:

Business Analyst

Date:

Department:

Risk & PnL

Location:

Chennai

Business Line / Function:

GM IT

Reports to:

(Direct)

Grade:

(if applicable)

(Functional)

Number of Direct Reports:

NA

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

We have a requirement for a senior business analyst with awareness on front/ middle/back office in investment banking and Risk & PnL systems. Need to work closely with developers and application users in V&RC IT team to cover target deliverables in application road map

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Work with different stakeholders across region to understand business requirements and priorities.
• Create functional specifications for each user story with user signoff following target governance process and fulfilling definition of ready for developers and testers.
• Owning application user stories backlog and ensuring frequent backlog grooming sessions to keep list up to date for upcoming sprints.
• Owning product and organizing stakeholder communication frequent basis to present status of deliverables and priorities in queue.
• Owning application knowledge library (wiki) and keep up to date in line with enhancements in each sprint.
• Contribute to release testing (UAT / Pre-Prod) and coordinating with users in signoff confirmation.
• Provide functional assistance to team members.
• Participate in peer reviews of Functional Specs.
• Conduct user training sessions on applications and functionalities
• Train juniors in team in order to ensure knowledge sharing and backup.
• Provide functional support for analyzing production & non-production issues whenever required.
• Ensure all activities carried-out and solutions proposed, planned and delivered are compliant with Organization and Project policy guidelines.

Contributing Responsibilities

• Contribute towards innovation, suggest improvement in practices to be investigated
• Contribute towards initiatives to improve processes and delivery

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Mandatory Skills:

• Experience as a Business Analyst in an IT company in the Finance domain working with users in capturing and analyzing business requirements.
• Experience in coordinating with stakeholders across different geographical locations in requirement analysis and progress reporting.
• Ability to explain business requirements easily and translate them into functional requirements with needful Functional specification documentation including test scenario specifications.
• Strong analytical and investigative skills - Understand and efficiently analyze information/requirements from multiple sources
• Knowledge of Capital Market activities & Financial Products (especially BOND, CDS, Futures, Futures Options, IR Products) in the context of Risk & PnL
• Knowledge of Trade Life Cycle and familiarity with financial products Data and cash flows.
• Understanding of Front Office/Middle Office/ Back office functions.
• Sufficient knowledge in SQL to retrieve and analyze data
• Good Communication and Team Player

Optional Skills

• Knowledge on Python, Excel, Visio would be a plus

Specific Qualifications (if required)

Skills Referential

(Please select up to 4 skills)

Organizational skills

Communication skills - oral & written

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Attention to detail / rigor

Qualifications

Qualifications - External

Education Level:

Master Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 5 years

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