Senior IT Business Analyst

Job description

Job details

General information

Entity

Crédit Agricole CIB is the Corporate and Investment Banking arm of the Crédit Agricole Group, the world's n°13 bank measured by Tier One Capital (The Banker, July 2017)
Crédit Agricole CIB offers its clients a large range of products and services in capital markets, investment banking, structured finance and corporate banking.
The Corporate and Investment Bank is structured around six major divisions:
• Client Coverage & International Network,
• International Trade & Transaction Banking,
• Global Investment Banking,
• Structured Finance,
• Fixed Income Markets,
• Debt Optimisation and Distribution.
The Bank provides support to clients in large international markets through its network with a presence in major countries in Europe, America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.  

Reference number

2017-22706  

Publication date

18/07/2018

Job description

Business type

IT / Project Management

Contract type

Permanent Contract

Management position

No

Job summary

• Responsible for the functional knowledge
o Liaise with IT business lines contacts for clarification and understanding of requirements.
o Analyze functional impacts considering technical constraints with technical lead's help
o Prepare and present functional aspects of changes/evolutions to developers
o Draft detailed functional specifications/users stories for developers, in line with general specifications or list of requirements provided by project manager / Business Analysts
o Support the technical development team in any functional aspects.
o Organize and keep up to date detailed functional documentation
• Responsible for the functional testing of development
o Develop tests strategy in coordination with project manager / Business Analysts
o Conduct continuous testing in development environment for development monitoring
o Write unit test cases and functional test cases for system verification
o Follow the user acceptance test and coordinate the prioritization with project manager
• Involved in support of application for functional incident
o 2nd level support work on request escalated from level 1
o Reproduce, make first analysis and investigate verifying codification and data
o Analyze and/or solve functional problems in coordination with developers

Job location

Geographical area

Asia, Singapore

City

Singapour

Desired profile

Candidate criteria

Minimal education level

Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent

Academic qualification / Speciality

Relevant Degree

Level of minimal experience

3-5 years

Experience

• 4+ years as a Business Analyst in CIB organization
• Technical experience to be comfortable with data models and SQL
• Hands-on experience as liaison function between the onshore IT business lines and offshore technical teams and as primary functional support for development team
• Thorough experience in functional testing and validation of development

Required skills

o Ability to convey clearly and concisely ideas in a concrete and coherent way.
o Ability to easily communicate with multi-cultural team members
o General banking and finance understanding and knowledge
o Market Risk knowledge (Pnl calculation and explanation, VaR and Stress VaR analysis)
o Product Control knowledge (Pnl calculation and explanation, …)
o Financial products (Treasury, FX, Credit, IRD…)
o Market data (Volatilities, Curves,…), Sensitivities
o Regulatory knowledge (including Basel III, Basel II, Basel I, SIMM, FRTB, CVA, …)
o Project cycle methodology
o Strong technical skills in tests methodology
o Strong organizational skills
o Strong ability to analyze and summarize
o Self-sufficient and pro-active in sourcing information
o Strong sense of confidentiality

Technical skills required

• Knowledge of SQL, XML, HTML, UML, Business object, data warehouse, BI
• Usage of MS Office, MS Sharepoint, MS Project, MS Visio
• Understanding of UML