Finance And Business Analyst

Markets Finance Tech Change team specifically support the bank’s Product Control and Finance Control functions. The main functional areas covered are: Accounting sub-ledger functions supporting Product Control, Financial Control and Operations, with a daily trial balance that is leveraged across Risk, Finance and Treasury consumers Daily P&L and balance sheet finalisation processes and reporting Product Control valuation processes and reporting MI reporting to senior management Key Accountabilities: Business and Data Analysis Determining business requirements and prioritizing them for change Defining functional requirements, which reflect the business requirements and developing approaches to enable them to be delivered via process changes or technology solutions Liaising with Risk, Finance and Treasury Business Stakeholders to document business outcomes, functional specifications as product backlogs for new Finance initiatives Defining detailed business and integration requirements using the Confluence/Wiki based documentation approach aligned with an Agile / sprint-based development methodology. Creating detailed GUI mock-ups and other visual requirements, as required, to be presented alongside user requirements to development /feature teams and key business stakeholders. Working actively and closely with feature teams to ensure user requirements/business outcomes are clearly understood and developed as specified in the documentation Analysing UAT issues and assisting Business users / developers with issue resolution. Analysing and respond to queries from Finance Product Owners/ Users. Analysing systems to identify functional gaps and enable them to be resolved via process changes / technology solutions Provide recommendations as to process re-engineering and improvements. Collaborating and maintaining strong relationships within Finance, Risk, Treasury teams and stakeholders Basic/Essential Qualifications/Skills 15+ years of direct work experience in a business analyst capacity including but not limited to: Proven experience in data analysis, including SQL data queries and data interrogation Proven experience in data modelling Proven experience in business process modelling Proven experience in Finance – Product Control and Financial Control In-depth knowledge and experience of Finance processes, particularly the sub-ledger accounting functions, how to account for business events and how accounting data impacts Finance and Operations processes and controls Good knowledge of Investment Banking / Financial Services products Ability to break down a complex problem into a clearly thought through solution with well-structured analysis, design, and examples as supporting documentation In-depth knowledge and experience in projects adopting different delivery methods (e.g. Waterfall, Agile) Understanding of Agile SDLC concepts; Understanding of Scrum/Kanban Agile SDLC methodology – Product Backlog/Features, Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done etc Extensive experience handling stakeholders across the Senior Business (Director and Managing Director Level) Ability to train junior BA’s and pass on best practice procedures in business and data analysis • Good understanding of front to back finance and operational process flows