BNP Paribas - Business Analyst - Projects - London & NAR - Finance Shared Service

Job Description: Business Analyst Projects - London and NAR

About BNP Paribas India Solution Pvt Ltd: Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas Group, which is one of the leading banking groups in the world. With two delivery centers located in Mumbai and Chennai, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a 24x7 global delivery center. It services the two business lines of BNP Paribas: a) Corporate & Institutional Banking: This provides a full range of solutions tailored to the needs of two client franchises:

a) corporate and institutional investors. b) Retail Banking & Services: This consists of the Group's retail banking networks and the specialized financial services.

Today, BNP Paribas India Solutions provides best-in-class solutions in three main business verticals: Information Technology: Application Development and Maintenance, IT Production Support, IT Testing, IT Infrastructure and IT Security. Operations: Payments Processing, Trade Finance Operations, Capital Markets and Client Management Operations. Finance: Account Payables and Nostro Reconciliation, Financial Accounting and Reporting, Accounting Controls, Business Analysis and Performance Management.

Location: Mumbai

Department: Finance shared service

Job Purpose :

To ensure that the candidate performs the Business analysis and requirements on Accounting application and has worked on General Ledger system.

Key Responsibilities:

- Liaising with users for requirements gathering, UAT and migration testing up to successful delivery of the end product.

- Co-ordinate closely with the functional and business users and understand system functionalities and testing requirements.

- Partnering with Business users in conducting interviews with Business users to understand the requirements

- Collecting and analyzing user requirements and business processes.

- Developing functional specification for delivery to IT.

- Performing system testing to ensure that development is in line with functional specification.

- Liaising with counterparts in IT and PMO organizations in New York, New Jersey, London, Mumbai and Paris.

- Ensuring on-time quality delivery of all activities assigned.

- Providing users with Subject Matter Expertise for Finance processes & systems.

- Evidencing of the Requirements with the Test Cases

- Prepare Test Plan with scenarios and Test Cases, detailing the Test Steps

- Identify and gather test data from various sources

- Execute test cases and record results

- To plan, track and report progress of Test phase

- To co-ordinate with the stakeholders on sign off and approval of user requirement, Test cases and Test results

Candidate Requirements for the role:

- Must be well versed in General Ledger & accounting fundamentals.

- Must have worked on general ledger projects & capital market domain

Education Background:

- MBA in Finance, Bachelor of Commerce, Master in Commerce, Bachelor in Science

Years of experience:

- 4 to 7 years of experience in business and system analysis (gathering requirements, creating system specifications) in the financial services industry.

- 4 to 7 years of experience in testing of General Ledger accounting schemas and reporting.

- 4 to 7 years of experience supporting accounting systems or implementing interfaces with accounting systems (i.e. upstream to general ledger) in the financial services industry.

- Good understanding of banking products (Corporate Banking and/or Capital Markets).

Technical knowledge & Skills:

- Good knowledge of Accounting concepts, General Ledger and Capital Market

- Comfortable with basic office tools (Lotus Notes, MS Word, Outlook)

- Excellent knowledge and use of Microsoft skills (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, Project)

Preferred Industry / Domain experience:

- Former experiences within a Finance function in Banking and Financial Services

- Prior experience in Banking Domain (Accounting, General Ledger or Capital Market)

Behavioural Skills / Competencies:

- Good communication skill (Verbal and Written)

- Listening skills to elicit the user requirement and

- Good analytical skills to perform analysis

- Ability to plan, design, prepare and execute test cases (Manual and Automated)

- Traceability Matrix (Ability to map requirements and specifications to test cases and vice versa)

- Ability to analyse business functions and identify test scenarios (positive, negative, stress, regression, performance testing)

- Understanding of testing principles and practices and

- Ability to communicate effectively with Finance and IT teams

- Ability to work with tight deadlines

- Experience in working in Onsite - Offshore environment

- Knowledge of JIRA and Service Now