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:
The Global Markets business of BNP Paribas helps its corporate and institutional clients leverage capital markets across the globe for their financing, risk management and investment needs. This encompasses a wide range of financial products ranging from Foreign exchange to complex Equity Derivatives that are traded in financial markets across the globe 24/7. IT systems are integral to the business and are a key part of the value proposition to clients. These IT systems range from industry standard products for standard process automation to internally developed, often, market leading IT applications. The IT teams owning these IT systems are made up of functions that include Technical and Application production support, Business Analysis & Project Management, Development & Maintenance and Quality Control. BNP Paribas India Solutions is an equal partner in these IT functions along with colleagues in other locations including Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, Singapore & Hong Kong. This partnership ranges from sharing the IT workload, executing global strategy to owning global applications offshore. The technology and engineering landscape is wide, encompassing almost all techniques and platforms. It continues to evolve and transform with the market with the business continuing to invest in it.
Job Title:
Business Analyst
Date:
Department:
GMIT
Location:
Mumbai
Business Line / Function:
Matisse Next
Reports to:
(Direct)
Grade:
(if applicable)
Business Analyst
(Functional)
Number of Direct Reports:
Directorship / Registration:
NA
Position Purpose
The position is for a business analyst in Matisse Next team.
- Analyse business requirements and provide functional solutions for Treasury & Reconciliation applications.
- Supports operations teams & IT Spoc by helping them analyze the business domain, stocking the product backlog and grooming the product backlog.
- Analyze -business, production, security, and system – requirements, study their impacts and contributes to estimation.
- Writes functional detailed specifications.
- Helps the team & product owner understand, describe problem to be solved by facilitating the discussions.
- Define policies and rules to guide business behavior and decision making.
- Write test cases for each User Story.
- Perform UAT for all functional deliverables
Responsibilities
Direct Responsibilities
- Strong domain knowledge on Capital Markets with expert insights in Treasury domain
- Expert knowledge in Reconciliation
- Ensures deliverables created as per Quality Management practices followed by the company, or as outlined for the project/release.
- Work with business analysts/users to understand requirements & help the IT team to develop good quality deliverables.
- Good hands-on experience on Agile practices – acting ScrumMaster or Product owner role.
- Prepare BRD's based on the user needs & make sure document is detailed.
- Help the developer to reduce defects in IST/ UAT/production. Quality Focus is high.
- Identify risks and provide mitigation plan. Escalate issues on timely manner to the leads.
- Work Autonomously by taking ownership.
- Maintain very good working environment, Team spirit and Knowledge Sharing.
- To have a strong Customer Focus to provide a professional support service to both internal and external client.
- Gain application, business, and functional knowledge.
- To work with teams to help solve complex problems.
- Work towards initiatives to improve processes and delivery efficiency.
- Contribute towards recruitment efforts - both for the team as well as for the organization.
- Contribute towards innovation; suggest new practices for efficiency improvement.
- Provide L3 Support
- To ensure all activities carried-out and solutions proposed, planned, and delivered are compliant with Organization policy guidelines.
Contributing Responsibilities
Communicate ideas and develop strategy through presentations, demonstrations, and specifications, supports and develops team members by providing guidance, coaching and knowledge sharing.
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
Mandatory Skills:
- Experience as a Business Analyst in an IT industry in the Finance domain.
- Knowledge of Capital Market activities, Financial Products, Financial Terminologies is a must.
- Good SQL Query writing skills
- Understanding of Trade Life Cycle
- Understanding & Knowledge of Swift MT Messages
- Thorough understanding of complete Software Development Lifecycle
- Self-motivated, good interpersonal skills and inclination to constantly upgrade on new technologies and frameworks.
- Good communication, good interpersonal skills, and co-ordination activities, self-motivated, and inclination to constantly upgrade on new developments in the industry.
Ability to understand business requirements easily and translate them into functional requirements.
Capability to understand and analyse complex IT application and financial product structures.
Excellent documentation ability.
Have experience in preparing requirement specifications and perform UAT.
Nice to have Skills:
- Knowledge or Experience with Treasury functions, Cash Reconciliation, and business processes.
- Experience/Knowledge of Back Office Settlement system.
Specific Qualifications (if required)
Skills Referential
Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)
Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
Communication skills - oral & written
Decision Making
Adaptability
Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)
Ability to understand, explain and support change
Ability to develop and adapt a process
Ability to manage / facilitate a meeting, seminar, committee, training…
Analytical Ability
Ability to understand, explain and support change
Education Level:
Bachelor Degree or equivalent
Experience Level
At least 5 years
Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)
