ALMT IT – Settlement & Accounting – Business Analyst

Job Title: ALMT IT – Settlement & Accounting – Business Analyst

Department: ALMT IT

About Business line/Function:

ALMT function is responsible for Asset Liabilities management and treasury activity of BNP Paribas. It also handles Bank's funding needs and risk management activities. ALMT IT is a Deal Capture & Deal Processing Application catering to IT demands of ALMT functions within the bank.

OMR is ALMT métiers back office settlement system deployed across the globe. OMR receive deals from various trade booking systems and performs trade processing & controls, payment & confirmations advices, accounting event generation.

Position Purpose:

Current position is under ALMT IT team scope to contribute in individual capacity on development, enhancement, and maintenance & support activities for multiple applications by efficiently utilizing continuous improvement and agile methodology. Immediate tasks would include but not restricted to

· To create and maintain functional specifications document and work closely with the development and testing team.

· To co-ordinate closely with the business users and onsite BA's or managers of the application to understand the functional requirements

· To perform functional tests and assist with user acceptance tests

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

· Interact with functional and technical representatives of project teams in order to understand business functionalities, technical modules, integration mechanism and data sources.

· Prepare functional specifications for developers and testers.

· Prepare test plans and conduct Integration, Regression, Performance and Functional Testing using automated testing frameworks (e.g. Junit, Nunit, Mock, etc.).

· Review Functional Specs, Functional Test Cases prepared by IT team.

· Contribute to the technical designing phase and document the design with UML diagrams and models. Create prototype for proof of concept and business requirements validations.

· Provide functional assistance to Development/Testing teams.

· Participate in peer reviews of Functional Specs.

· Conduct user training sessions on applications and functionalities.

· Train others (wherever required) in order to ensure knowledge sharing and backup.

· Ensure that the project and organization standards are followed during various phases of software development lifecycle and day to day development work.

· Estimate efforts and schedule for various modules and meet deadlines.

· Functional Release Documentation

· To participate in out-of-hours / daytime support as required

· To ensure that application is of good quality, ensure any issues are fixed on priority.

· To work with teams to help solve complex problems

· Work towards initiatives to improve processes and delivery efficiency

· Contribute towards recruitment efforts - both for the team as well as for the organization

· Contribute towards innovation; suggest new practices for efficiency improvement.

· Provide L3 Support

· To ensure all activities carried-out and solutions proposed, planned and delivered are compliant with Organization policy guidelines.

Contributing Responsibilities

· Contribute towards innovation, suggest new practices to be investigated

· Contribute towards initiatives to improve processes and delivery

· Contribute towards recruitment efforts - both for the team as well as for the organization

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

· Experience as a Business Analyst in an IT industry in the Finance domain.

· Knowledge of Capital Market activities, Financial Products, Financial Terminologies is a must.

· Good SQL Query writing skills

· Understanding of Trade Life Cycle

· Thorough understanding of complete Software Development Lifecycle

· Self-motivated, good interpersonal skills and inclination to constantly upgrade on new technologies and frameworks.

· Good communication, good interpersonal skills and co-ordination activities, self-motivated, and inclination to constantly upgrade on new developments in the industry.

· Ability to understand business requirements easily and translate them into functional requirements.

· Capability to understand and analyze complex IT application and financial product structures

· Excellent documentation ability.

· Have experience in preparing requirement specifications and perform UAT