BNP Paribas - IT Business Analyst - Capital Markets Domain

Job Description for Global Markets IT Business Analyst

BNP Paribas Overview

BNP Paribas has a presence in 75 countries with more than 185,000 employees, including 145,000 in Europe. It ranks highly in its two core activities: Retail Banking & Services and Corporate & Institutional Banking.

At BNP Paribas, we work continuously on behalf of our clients, helping them to realize their projects around the world. You can be an important part of this, helping us to serve our clients both in mature and emerging markets, providing them with financial solutions across a diverse range of expertise, products and services. Our origins lie in Europe, but nearly a quarter of our employees now work in our multi-award-winning Asia Pacific offices and we are a committed player in all markets.

Experience

- Graduate with at least 4 - 11 years of business analysis experience. (MBA capital markets/Finance preferred)

- Experience preferred in investment banking environment (Trade Workflow/ Settlement/Accounting orientated)

Role

- Capture explicit and implicit requirements and define appropriate solutions, in combination with users, sponsors and the wider IT department

- Produce specifications at an appropriate level of detail for a development team

- Define and execute required tests, which is expected to be a significant part of the role

- Adapt solutions to the constraints of externally imposed deadlines

- Work with other Business Analysts based at Paris/London and with developers

- Communicate progress of activities to management

- Undertake training programs for the IT team

Essential Skills

- A minimum of 4 years of IT business analysis experience

- Good problem solving and analytical skills

- Working knowledge of financial products (e.g. not necessarily all Equity, Foreign Exchange, Bonds, Repo, Swaps, Credit Derivatives, ABS, CMO, Futures and Options) and concepts

- Recent exposure to the trade processing lifecycle (including not necessarily all trading, trade capture, clearing, settlement and accounting) for the above products

- Knowledge of recent industry regulations driven by the Dodd-Frank Act and ESMA-mandate

- Experience of the full software development lifecycle

- Experience with capturing and documenting user requirements, both explicit and implied

- Experience of writing specifications so as to communicate effectively with a development team

- Structured testing experience (write, execute and maintain test plans)

- Working knowledge of SQL and ability to query database for analysis and investigation of issues

- Knowledge of formal project planning and management techniques

- Ability to work in an autonomous fashion with low-levels of management intervention

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to Have

- Work experience in Atlassian JIRA for work management

- Experience working in an Agile team

- Experience of constructing and monitoring formal project plans

- Knowledge of formal software analysis and specification techniques such as state-transition diagrams, workflow diagrams, etc.

- Credible presentation skills, meaning confident public speaking, the ability to abstract or encapsulate information and present it in a way that is appropriate to the needs of different audiences

- Previous experience dealing with and training users from different business areas including Middle Office, Trading, Sales and the Legal and IT departments