Senior Business Analyst - Wholesale Credit Risk (7-14 yrs)

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Business Analyst

Business: Risk and Compliance

Principal responsibilities:

- Understand the current system and data architecture, identify future needs and create solutions to help meet those needs.

- Play a key role in communicating between teams (users, IT, PMs, CDO, BAs in other departments).

- Create 'best in class' suggestions for strategic and operational improvements and changes which can be consistently and cost-effectively deployed.

- Ensure that when the solution is delivered, the business truly owns that this is what they wanted and is prepared to use it.

- Weigh opportunities and potential risks attached to suggestions made.

- Identify, understand and evaluate the processes and information technology changes required to introduce the recommendations.

- Seek for standardization of systems, processes and operational models and their alignment to those of the Group and/or the Region, to generate efficiencies and economies of scale and deliver consistent high-quality service across all Businesses.

- Produce clear and complete written documentation to support the work, report on the findings and present to stakeholders. Archiving them as well for future reference (e.g. Internal and external audit reviews)

- Support users in making your recommended changes, including help to resolve any issues. Run workshops and training sessions.

- Ensure plans are made and processes are created to evaluate the impact of the changes made.

Qualifications:

- Graduate/ Postgraduate with minimum 6-10 years of banking experience

- Relevant experience of 5+ years as a Business Analyst (in formal BA roles)

- Knowledge in Wholesale Credit risk is required. This would include knowledge of aspects around credit lifecycle, model development and deployment lifecycle including the various regulatory aspects pertaining to credit risk and understanding of the risk and business systems typically involved, knowledge of the type of data required to build credit risk models (PD/LGD/EAD), the role of these models in managing credit risk and the key regulatory drivers for such models (Eg: Basel III)

- Advanced Business analysis, requirements gathering and design techniques.

- Knowledge of Reporting / Analysis & Data management is preferred.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Have an Agile mindset with constant target to deliver more value to customers effectively and efficiently.

- Experienced in working with global virtual teams across different geographies, culture and time-zones.

- Ability to challenge and question status quo in a constructive way, while accepts to be challenged and receives feedbacks positively.

- Strong inter-personal skills; ability to handle conflict and manage expectations

What additional skills will be good to have?

- Experience with Waterfall and Agile ways of working

- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) - Optional

- FRM/PRM - Optional

- Degree in Business Information Systems or a related field - Optional

- Degree in business administration / management / economics, engineering and science - Optional