Business Analyst - Capital Markets - PSNF

About BNP Paribas India Solutions:

Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, European Union’s leading bank with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. India Solutions services three business lines: Corporate and Institutional Banking, Investment Solutions and Retail Banking for BNP Paribas across the Group. Driving innovation and growth, we are harnessing the potential of over 10000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.

About BNP Paribas Group:

BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group’s commercial & personal banking and several specialised businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment, and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At BNP Paribas, we passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued, respected and can bring their authentic selves to work. We prohibit Discrimination and Harassment of any kind and our policies promote equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, irrespective of, but not limited to their gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, colour, national origin, age, religion, social status, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status etc. As a global Bank, we truly believe that inclusion and diversity of our teams is key to our success in serving our clients and the communities we operate in.

About Business line/Function:

PB Portal is a set of web applications designed for BNP CIB internal and external users. PB Portal acts as a content integration framework allowing other CIB web applications to represent data for users in similar fashion, look and feel having common controls within web browser. Other CIB web applications are deployed into separate servers called Content Providers. PB Portal integrates content from various Content Providers into single web desktop application.

Result oriented business analyst with min 6 years of experience. Can work independently with high quality and within timelines. The candidate should be functionally inclined and with proven skills in the business analyst stack.

Job Title:

Business Analyst Corporate Actions Technology

Date:

Department:

Global Markets IT

Location:

BNP Paribas ISPL, Mumbai

Business Line / Function:

Global Markets IT

Reports to:

(Direct)

Team Lead

Grade:

(if applicable)

(Functional)

Number of Direct Reports:

NA

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

IT Business Analyst for GM Non-US Corporate Actions (CoA) processing platform in Prime Area.

The team comprises developers & business analysts, with testers & production support staff in the ecosystem but not in the direct remit of this role.

This role is to be an IT Business Analyst on the core GM Non-US Corporate Actions IT application and other Prime Areas with direct face off with the business users.

In addition, analyst is required to assist in delivering applications and processes supporting Prime Brokerage platform. 

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Lead projects through entire project lifecycle from feasibility study to delivery
• Lead the process to gather and document business requirements
• Convert business requirements into Functional specifications and System requirements
• Explain the functional/system requirements to the development team
• Setup and coordinate meetings associated with various project work-streams.
• Liaise with IT teams negotiating deliveries on the dependencies of the specific projects.
• Escalate blocking issues to the appropriate level of management.
• Provide regular reporting of deliveries against key milestones, proactive notification of risks and issues
• Investigation of any issues, determining root causes and obtaining resolution.
• Develop Test Procedures for various deliverables, in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Conduct qualification of releases, System Integrated testing, User Acceptance testing.

• Prepare User guides, Business Cases, Training Material, Production Support procedures
• Take ownership of project deliverables against agreed scope, budget and timeline.
• Drive project delivery by maintaining project plans, organize status meetings, and prepare minutes. Develop user training and user guides.

Contributing Responsibilities

·       Secure functional online documentation

-        Training & continuous functional knowledge improvement for the team.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Mandatory Technical expertise required:

• Capital markets Products - Must know Cash Equities, Equity Derivatives & Bonds
• Corporate Actions & Trade lifecycle of above products
• Capture and document user requirements, both explicit and implied
• Clear, Concise specifications to communicate effectively with IT Dev/Support & users
• Software development lifecycle
• Structured testing (write, execute and maintain test plans)
• Comfortable with MS-Excel, Word, PPT & Visio
• Working knowledge of SQL

Nice to have Technical skills / Tools knowledge:

• JIRA
• Agile methodology

Specific Qualifications (if required)

• An IT Engineering or MBA degree equivalent
• At least 6 years of work experience as an IT Business Analyst in a Capital Markets environment

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills : (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Decision Making

Attention to detail / rigor

Critical thinking

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Analytical Ability

Ability to develop others & improve their skills

Ability to understand, explain and support change

Ability to develop and leverage networks

Choose an item.

Education Level:

Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

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Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)