Business Analyst

About BNP Paribas

At BNP Paribas, we center our values on what drives the company forward. Our driving forces are Agility, Client Satisfaction, Compliance Culture and Openness.

• Agility: we want to behave more simply to embrace useful innovation and digital transformation. 
• Client Satisfaction: we believe that our success lies in being the customers' and clients' preferred choice.
• Compliance Culture: we believe in promoting clear rules to foster a strong culture of compliance and ethics 
• Openness: we promote open-minded attitudes towards our stakeholders. We aim for everyone in Group to feel included, to have their say and be empowered

Role

ITO Business Solutions (BSD) supports the Business Lines and Functions in delivering Change, Automation & Efficiency Programmes with the objective of facilitating the smooth delivery of Group Initiatives as well as locally decided Initiatives within BNP Paribas Dublin branch.  

Dublin is the European Hub for Payables/Receivables Supply Chain Management, the mandate objective is to achieve an optimum efficient Operating Model working with the Business and Functions, to ensure appropriate and optimum IT platforms & processes are in place.

The Business Analyst is responsible for the enhancement of the core software applications to meet the ongoing operational and business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Analysis of operational pain points, business processes and workflows
• Collection and prioritisation of change requests
• Preparation of Business Requirement Documents
• Release management – promote wish list, follow up on estimation and scoping process  
• Ensure appropriate mapping of business requirements to functional specifications
• Control and monitor evolution and changes on both User and design teams sides
• Ensure accurate mapping of requirements to test cases (for SIT, UAT and NRT)
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT) coordination – execute tests cases, manage defects and validate tests results with the relevant participants  
• Work with the principal Users of the application and ensure all features are delivered and function as expected in the Production environment
• Co-ordination with local Users, Business team and IT teams

Qualifications & Experience required for this role

• Strong analytical, communication and organisational skills essential
• Experience in analysing and evaluating business processes for improvements
• Systems testing and software implementation experience 
• Self-motivated with proactive outlook
• Pragmatic and innovative approach to problem solving
• Strong interpersonal skills and team oriented
• Proficient knowledge of MS Office applications

Management excellence

BNP continues to foster top-class people management practices within our strong people focused culture, therefore all BNP Paribas people managers must adhere to the group Management Charter which strives for excellent in people management behaviours and competencies. 

Why work with us?

• We are a bank for a changing world and aim to build positive change together with our employees. 
• We are a team of passionate people who genuinely care about what we do and the impact our work delivers to our clients. We operate in a highly collaborative, open-minded environment that embraces innovation and creativity. 
• Our remuneration and benefits packages are generous, with competitive salaries, a discretionary bonus scheme, company pension contribution, comprehensive private healthcare packages, and numerous other benefits.
• We have a genuine commitment to work-life balance throughout the whole organisation. We are also committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and actively promote equal opportunities. 
• Development and mobility is actively encouraged. We are a learning company - there is real opportunity to grow, develop and expand your skills, experience and career path. 
• We are a global company operating in over 60 countries with over 180,000 employees from over 150 nationalities. In Ireland we have 550 employees across Dublin and Galway working in Corporate Institutional Banking (CIB) and BNP Paribas Security Services (BP2S) and Greenval.

Compliance Culture

We believe in promoting clear rules to foster a strong culture of compliance and ethics.  We would expect any incoming member of staff to respect all financial security related legislation, including: anti-money laundering (AML); countering the financing of terrorism (CFT); international financial sanctions and embargoes (IFS); anti-bribery and corruption (ABC); KYC; ongoing client related data screening; and transaction monitoring.  BNP Paribas have clear policies on these topics which all staff are expected to familiarise themselves with upon successful entry to the Group.

Equality and Diversity

BNP Paribas is an equal opportunities employer and proudly cultivates a diverse workforce. We believe that diversity of experience enhances our service offering to clients and leads to a better working environment. We encourage applcations from the best candidates regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, parental and caring status, or religious belief.

By submitting your application, you agree to BNP Paribas completing a background check and screening in advance of any potential offer being made