Job description

We are looking for Business Analyst who will join the international team within banking industry.

Project:

• Project within Credit Risk area.

• Developing a risk management system that can calculate various risks for derivatives instruments.

• The team is working on lowering the amount of regulatory capital by developing internal models for calculation of counterparty credit risk.

  Team:

• Team of 50 people working in Agile (BA, Dev, QA, Product Owners): 35 people in Wrocław, 5 in Warsaw, some in London.

  Recruitment process:

• 1-2 stages: 1st call with manager and team members, potentially 2nd call with London.

Your responsibilities

• Working on business and regulatory driven projects in close collaboration with development teams and business partners in many locations

• Eliciting requirements, analysing data, defining data models and business needs, ensuring completeness and consistency

• Analyse dependencies between various systems, oversee technical and business constraints, risks and assumptions

• Taking part in various activities through all the software development lifecycle stages, including design, UAT/QA test support and post go-live activities

• Conduct workshops, demos, POC (Proof of Concept) reviews and provide SME support in the area of Banking

• Analysis of exposure results, Development of releases, Provide support to production.

• Close collaboration with people developing models and also Chief Risk Officers who are looking at the exposure of the company.

• Using Quandl libraries

• Support development team (new features to be added in the system)

• Clarify and document project information and solutions and ensure knowledge is disseminated around the team (translating business requirements into developers language)

Challenges in the role:

• Ad-hoc system analysis and investigation

• Understand the current applications and business processes, identify extensions and new funcionality.

• Priorities are dynamic depending on the scope objectives.

Our requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in similar field

• A proven ability to translate requirements between business concepts, math description and technical IT language

• Experience with working with large sets of data, data analysis using SQL and Excel

• Ability to multi-task with can-do attitude to perform various roles

• Hands on approach to problem solving by applying analytical thinking skills, accompanied by stron interpersonal and communication skills

• Flexibility to frequently changing requirements, persistence with elicitation of requirements / finding inconsistencies in delivered rules

• Self-organization and ability to plan future activities based on prioritization of time, capacity and urgency while maintaining a healthy work-live balance

• Understanding and working knowledge of various software delivery methodologies and principles (Agile, DevOps)

• Credit Risk experience

• Experience with Big Data analysis

• Exposure to Banking / Financial Services and preferably Investment Banking

• Scripting, e.g. Python, VBA (or any other similar framework)

• Knowledge of processes management, including for regulatory reporting/risk management/monitoring and familiarity with bank products

• Proficiency with requirements tracking systems (e.g. JIRA), collaboration systems (Confluence, Sharepoint), version control system (SVN, GIT)

• Knowledge of formal notations (UML, BPMN) and modelling tools (e.g. Enterprise Architect)

• Experience with TDD / BDD (Gherkin, Cucumber, SpecFlow)