Business Analyst

Job description
This is a business analyst role within Trading Risk domain with primary responsibilities including understanding, assessing, and implementing the changing risk management needs of the bank’s trading, capital market and collateral monitoring activities.
This role provides a balanced mixture of quantitative and qualitative exposures, with a blend of a data and business analysts tasks.

Responsibilities

• Undertake the business analyst role for Counterparty Credit Risk Domain.
• Capture and define clear business requirements coming from business and risk stakeholders, which include those pertaining to implementation or enhancement of risk application, and to data science exploration and experiments within trading risk domain.
• Evaluate and assess impact of business requirements to existing systems and applications to ensure sound and adequate functional designs.
• Devise comprehensive test plans (including test scenarios and test cases) to validate system deliverables.
• Conduct and manage User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, Simulation Testing and Live verifications to ensure system deliverables meet business requirements.
• Plan relevant activities according to given timeline, ensuring timely deliveries to maximise business values for stakeholders.
• Gather business/ risk data and perform an iteration of statistical analysis/ experiments in collaboration with data scientists and data engineers to gain valuable business/ risk insights for various digital initiatives.

Requirements:

• Degree in finance/ computer science/ quantitative finance discipline.
• At least 4 to 6 years of working experience as a business analyst.
• Possess understanding and experience in credit/ counterparty risk domain (including risk management and mitigation through collateral postings).
• Possess working knowledge of financial markets and products including securities financing transactions and derivatives.
• Prior experience in implementing trading risks (incl. market & counterparty risk) applications or innovative digital solutions within Risk Management Group is an advantage.
• Team player with strong inter-personal, communication, presentation, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient in SQL, Microsoft Excel and data visualization tools.

Interested candidates kindly submit your updated CV in a Word Format to: [email protected]. Only shortlisted candidates will be notify. Thank you.