IT Business Analyst

Overview

As IT Business Analyst, you will work closely with business users and your squad, providing analysis and support for different technical and functional deliveries. Our team is driven by a customer perspective and fosters a diverse and contemporary workplace.

Role Description:

• You are the linking pin between the Business or IT stakeholders and the development team.
• You identify, analyze and specify business/ IT requirements and translate them into to-the-point user stories or functional specifications/design. You do this based upon requirements from Business, IT or Customer Journey experts
• Clearly formulate and write product requirements, data requirements and user stories, including explicit acceptance criteria for engineers to meet (test & validate)
• Enable the Product Owner to manage the work stream, its deliverables and the timelines and status updates.
• Define data quality rules and define ways to measures this with the team to proactively identify potential impact on our stakeholders
• Test whether developed software meets the requirements and help improving the automated (regression) test frameworks
• Support users with investigations on business flows and defects that they encounter during testing
• Present delivered stories to stakeholders during sprint reviews
• Facilitate knowledge sharing between squad members
• Continuously improve the delivery process by identifying inefficiencies and taking initiative to drive proposals for remediation
• Maintain functional and technical documentation up to date and easily available within the area

 Experience:

• 5+ years as Business Analyst in Financial Markets and/or Treasury

• Skills / knowledge:
  • Mandatory:
    • Experience with financial markets products, trade data (instruments and product types)
    • Experience in risk management
    • Experience with financial markets regulations
    • In-depth experience with data query languages (SQL)
    • Experience with data analysis tooling such Python/Pandas, Excel
    • Experienced in Agile/Scrum way of working
    • In-depth experience in refinement and translation of user requirements
    • Is innovative to be able to convert market developments and customer feedback in his/her field of expertise into vision and strategy for organisation.
    • Strong "business sense" combined with the ability to research new topics to develop insights and drive actionable results.
    • Strong analytical and literacy skills with attention to details
    • You are communicative, accurate and able to work with challenging deadlines
    • You are proactive and able to work in cross-border international teams
    • Affinity with IT and technology
  • Nice to have:
    • Familiarity with BABOK Guide (Business Analysis Body of Knowledge)
    • CBAP certification (Certified Business Analysis Professional)
    • Experience with tooling for creating diagrams (MS Visio, Draw.io)
• Foreign languages: English (excellent level)

Education: Completed education at Bachelor/Master level in Economics, Finance or Computer Science and the like