Business Analyst, Corporate Banking

The Department and Position

The department is responsible for development and maintenance of Capital Market IT applications (in-house and package) used worldwide, covering Front Office (Murex, Apex, Orchestrade), Back Office (Summit, Calypso), Market data referential (Asset Control..), Market Risk (in-house application on big data technologies).

The Static and Market Data team works across the full value chain to feed FO, BO and Risk department with Static Market Data to sustain business activities.

This role aims to develop on Static and Market Data application, in project mode as well as maintenance, and to support the run the bank function. It requires a deep understanding of the nature of business operations, timing of activities & data flowing through internal and external systems. The build and support team continuously works with business users, infrastructure engineers and system managers.

Main Responsibilities

The Business analyst is a functional specialist working with all stakeholders from his IT Division and aligned Business division to define and document Business needs and software requirements. The BA advises, reports and alerts top optimize and enhance solutions favouring the delivery of value. You will belong to Functional Community with all Business Analysts and Functional Architects.

This will cover the whole cycle from requirement gathering, specifications and testing until the delivery to production including the following responsibilities:

- Ensure business requirement analysis activities

• Analyse Business requirement based on prioritization given by PO
• Help the PO and the team in decomposing requirements into detailed stories
• Translate requirements into cases into Functional Specification documents

- Ensure the functional design of the software delivered by the team

• Support functional knowledge of the team with the help of the PO
• Research to determine if solutions currently exist in or outside the team
• Understand technical constraints and participate to the software design

- Ensure functional quality of the software and Production quality

• Analyze functional change impacts on current production SLA & OLA
• Contribute to the BDD activities by providing users scenarios
• Contribute to the functional testing and functional support activities
• Contribute to deployment via functional pre-requisites, post-deployment checks

- Support the members of the team in their functional activities

• Train new joiners and team members functionally on the software
• Help team members in solving their functional issues

- Ensure integration of the software in the IS in sync with the functional architect

This position is a rare opportunity to work with technical and functional subject matter experts of the Financial Industry, be exposed to the latest technologies deployed by the bank and grow your finance and capital markets experience with Summit, a market leading packaged software.

Qualifications and Profile

Mandatory:

• 4+ years of business analyst experience, with at least 2 years in a financial organization and more specifically on Market Data administration domain.
• Proven experience in technical proficiency with strong skills in SQL, Excel and possibility programming languages like Python or R for data manipulation and analysis. Familiarity with database management and querying
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both team mates and management
• Ability to convey clearly and concisely ideas in a concrete and coherent way.

Good to have

• Relevant experience in FPML format
• Relevant experience on Asset Control software
• Exposure to the Capital Markets with proficiency in financial instruments (Bonds, Rates, Equity, etc..), trading lifecycle and specifically market data.
• Relevant experience with working with external source like Bloomberg, reuters
• Expertise in static market data with knowledge of data types, sources, and uses within financial systems, including reference data, price data.
• Ability to easily communicate with multi-cultural team members
• Experience in Back Office system (Summit, Calypso) or Front-Office or Market Risk
• Usage of tools such as MS Office / Sharepoint /Project / Visio, Jira, GIT
• Understanding of UML

Other Professional Skills and Mind-set

• Proficient software development life cycle
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Autonomy to include implicit deliverables in assignment based on best practices
• Strong appetite to learn both functional and technical new domain
• Appetite to participate to communities
• Strong sense of confidentiality
• Willing to do L3 Support if required.

Who we are:

Crdit Agricole Corporate and Investment Banking (Crdit Agricole CIB) is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crdit Agricole Group, world's 12th largest bank by total assets.

Our Singapore center (ISAP or Information Systems Asia Pacific) is the 2nd largest IT setup (after Paris Head Office) for Crdit Agricole CIB's worldwide business. We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by:

• Envisioning and preparing the Bank's futures information systems
• Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects.
• Providing premium In-house Banking applications

This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market. We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.