Cognizant - Business Analyst

We are looking for Business Analyst - Consultant Advanced/ Competent - Business Analyst

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The COO Risk & Finance department delivers Finance & Risk related services to its stakeholders, i.e. Group Finance, Risk, countries CFOs and Wholesale Banking, Tax and Bank Treasury. These services encompass operations and change initiatives for accounting, reporting, credit risk, management reporting & analytics, ALM and tax, including system, processes, data and information management and analytics capabilities. By design, the services are reliable, secure and in control. Change is delivered in accordance with the Finance strategy and implementation and decommissioning roadmap.

The Data Foundation tribe provides Finance & Risk with relevant, correct and harmonised data for its processing and to enable the change from report-driven to data-driven, while also enabling ING COO Risk & Finance to manage its end-to-end data flow in a structured and standardized way.

We are looking for a Business Analyst in Data Foundation Tribe, a committed data believer who is willing to help us to lead ING towards that data-driven future.

What you will be doing :

- You will participate in a squad as a Business Analyst (Finance Expert) within DFT. You will be actively involved in the maintenance, development and realization of current & new products/services for the users.

- As an expert, you deliver the necessary knowledge and skills to make standard and best products/services for your users. Besides that, you continuously deepen and broaden your knowledge and skills in your area of expertise within your chapter.

Your activities will be in the area of :

- Involved in Change & Run banks activities

- Setting detailed Finance requirements;

- Configuring business rules and building reports;

- Executing acceptance and other testing;

- Daily checking of EOD (timeliness, correctness, completeness, reconciliations, ledger);

Second-line support;

- Developing/maintaining documentation to clarify the working of functionality for end users, such as user manuals and Quick Reference Cards (QRCs).

What we are looking for :

- We are looking for an enthusiastic and energetic professional with a passion for data management in a Finance & Risk context. You are energized by working on concrete and tangible results in a complex and continuously changing environment.

- You know exactly how to empathise with the needs of your users and translate this into standard and innovative products.

- You have a clear vision on the area of expertise of the squad, including both excellent Finance knowledge and knowledge of the assets and tooling used. You have a strong drive to keep your expertise up to date and have the ambition to continuously improve yourself on a personal and professional level.

- You have at least 4 - 7 years experience in one of the following areas : Financial and/or Management Accounting; Risk and/or Statutory & Regulatory Reporting.

Knowledge :

- Proven banking experience, finance and/or risk processes and product knowledge.

- Sourcing, classifying & preparing transactional as well as accounting data for Finance, Risk

- Knowledge & understanding of Financial accounting & reconciliation, Chart of Accounts.

- Fixed Income & Bonds Equities, FX spots, swaps & derivatives. Interest rate swaps Commodity financing (commodities).

- Knowledge of and experience with Statutory and Regulatory Reporting (nice to have);

- DNB/EBA regulatory reporting, Financial Accounting, FINREP, ALM & liquidity management, Risk management (nice to have);

- Knowledge of and experience with data management, analysing large data sets and data quality.

- Knowledge of and experience with Change delivery (impact analysis, configuration, testing) and in Regression and User Acceptance testing.

- Experience in reading & writing small medium SQL (ORACLE) to analyse data in a database.

Skills :

- Clear communication (verbal, writing)

- Excellent working with Microsoft Excel, knowledge on BI.

- Affinity with IT including IT knowledge (Oracle DB, SQL).

- Experience with Agile way of working.

- Self-organizing, proactive, motivated to solve problems

- Good team-player.

Your education, experience and background :

- Professional and intellectual ability at least at academic level.

- University (Bachelors/Masters) degree in (business) economics or a comparable field.

- You like to work in a multidisciplinary squad.

- You take responsibility to get the work done.

- You easily adapt to new environments.

- You continuously improve yourself and you help your colleagues in their development.

- Knowledge of and experience with Agile and the Lean way of working.

- Excellent communication skills in English. Dutch it will be an asset.

You actively ask for help and feedback and are not afraid to give feedback.