Business Analyst - General Ledger/Accounting - Global Investment Bank

Hiring for a Top Global Investment Bank

REQUIREMENT ESSENTIALS:

- Background in Finance function with an understanding of accounting principles

- Understanding of banking operations, systems and front to back system framework

- Analytical, lateral thinker and result-oriented person with good problem solving and conflict management skills Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines under pressure

- Self-initiative and good team player

- Good knowledge of General Ledgers or Capital Markets/products or Sourcing Systems

- Basic understanding of financial accounting & reporting concepts

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

- Use of MS Excel for analysis, user cases preparation.

- SQL skills are preferred but not mandatory.

- Knowledge of parametrization, reference data, inter-relationships, mapping tables and hierarchies

- Ability to work with complex interrelated finance data and understand patterns, relationships, data flows, data quality topics

- Basic database concepts like tables, views, queries, BI reports

- Experience in business analysis, project management around:

- Planning, scheduling o User requirement & functional specifications documents

- Test Strategy, Cases Evidence

- Managing meetings, preparing summaries and status reports

- Understanding organizational & IT processes like releases, sprints, job schedules, file feeds Fundamentals of project planning (phases, milestones, tasks, dependencies)

- Good communication skills (Verbal and Written)

- Degree in Accounting, Computing or any other related subjects

- At least 3-5 years in Banking

- Experience working in project (as the lead user / project team)

- Knowledge of Accounting Systems (e.g. SAP)

Other Preferred Competencies (not mandatory):

- CPA, CFA or other related professional certificates

- Regulatory/ Financial reporting exposure (HKMA, MAS or other APAC regulators; Basel rules)

- Experience with Data warehousing / Business Intelligence Reporting/ Data Modeling. High level of comfort around data

- Other Computer skills : MS Access/ Excel Macro/ programming language