Business Analyst - Market Risk - Consulting Firm

About the client : A leading consulting Company

Job Description

- Work with project stakeholders to understand and document business objective, needs.

- Perform business analysis on the regulatory and internal reporting requirements.

- Understand the reporting process, analyze existing risk reports and recommend improvements.

- Develop business and functional requirements and obtain timely sign-offs by all respective parties.

- Conducts change impact analysis to assess and report the potential implications.

- Work with Users, line management and IT groups throughout the various phases of the project.

- Prepare test conditions and test steps and execute all functional testing of deliverables to ensure all requirements are accurately delivered.

- Organize and participate in user acceptance testing and testing of new system functionality.

- Liaise with business unit sponsors, stakeholders and IT partners on a regular basis to ensure communication of status and issues.

- Identification of risks and issues and management with a strong sense of accountability.

Skill Sets

- 7 + years of experience with Business Analysis experience and in depth understanding of business processes, financial products, market risk management and regulatory requirements

- Understanding of systems delivery lifecycles (SDLC) and delivery methodologies

- Good understanding and experience of VaR methodology, capital calculations and market risk concepts

- Effective stakeholder management

- Financial Services change experience in market risk management and preferably within Investment Banking environment.