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, corporate 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, color, 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 Businessline/Function :
ALMT (Asset and Liability Management Treasury) is a Transversal Activity, present throughout the Group, which manages the liquidity, interest rate and foreign exchange risks of the Bank's balance sheet, including its implementation on financial markets.
ALMT-IT caters to IT demands of ALMT functions within the bank.
Within ALMT IT Perimeter, Risk & PnL applications cater to generation, management and reporting of Risk & PnL data associated with underlying financial transactions.
Job Title:
Business Analyst
Date:
4-Feb-2025
Department:
ALMT IT
Location:
Mumbai – NKP Building
Business Line / Function:
ALMT IT
Reports to:
(Direct)
Manager
Grade:
(if applicable)
(Functional)
Manager
Number of Direct Reports:
NA
Directorship / Registration:
NA
Position Purpose
Current position is under ALMT IT team scope to contribute in individual capacity on development, enhancements, and maintenance & support activities for multiple applications by efficiently utilizing continuous improvement and agile methodology. Immediate tasks would include but not restricted to
· To create and maintain functional specifications document and work closely with the development and testing team.
· To co-ordinate closely with the business users and onsite BA’s or managers of the application to understand the functional requirements
· To perform functional tests and assist with user acceptance tests.
Responsibilities
Direct Responsibilities
- Interact with functional and technical representatives of project teams in order to understand business functionalities, technical modules, integration mechanism and data sources.
- Prepare and present functional aspects of changes/evolutions to developers.
- Prepare functional specifications for developers and testers.
- Prepare test plans and conduct Integration, Regression, Performance and Functional Testing using automated testing frameworks (e.g. Junit, Nunit, Mock, etc.).
- Participate in peer reviews of Functional Specs.
- Organize and keep up to date detailed functional documentation.
- Review Functional Test Cases prepared by IT team.
- Estimate efforts and schedule for various modules and meet deadlines.
- Contribute to the technical designing phase and document the design with UML diagrams and models. Create prototype for proof of concept and business requirements validations.
- Provide functional assistance to Development/Testing teams.
- Strong ability to analyze and summarize.
- Conduct user training sessions on applications and functionalities.
- Train others (wherever required) in order to ensure knowledge sharing and backup.
- Ensure that the project and organization standards are followed during various phases of software development lifecycle and day to day development work.
- Functional Release Documentation
- To participate in out-of-hours / daytime support as required
- To ensure that application is of good quality, ensure any issues are fixed on priority.
- To work with teams to help solve complex problems.
- Work towards initiatives to improve processes and delivery efficiency.
- Provide L3 Support, Analyze and/or solve functional problems in coordination with developers.
- To ensure all activities carried-out and solutions proposed, planned and delivered are compliant with Organization policy guidelines.
Contributing Responsibilities
- Contribute towards innovation, suggest new practices to be investigated & efficiency improvement.
- Contribute towards initiatives to improve processes and delivery.
- Contribute towards recruitment efforts - both for the team as well as for the organization.
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
Mandatory Technical 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.
- Understanding of Trade Life Cycle
- Experience on PnL, Pricing & Market Risk & Sensitivities.
- Self-sufficient and pro-active in sourcing information
- Ability to understand business requirements easily and translate them into functional requirements.
- Excellent documentation ability.
- Have experience in preparing requirement specifications and perform UAT.
- Good SQL Query writing skills
- Project cycle methodology
- 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.
- Capability to understand and analyze complex IT application and financial product structures
Nice to have Skills:
- Knowledge of Agile Process’s and various roles within it like Product Owner, Scrum Master etc.
- Knowledge or Experience with Treasury functions and business processes.
- Good knowledge of RISK & PnL management in ALMT & Treasury domain.
- Experience/Knowledge of Datawarehouse concepts
- Basics of Unix/Linux OS
Specific Qualifications (if required)
Skills Referential
Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)
Client focused
Attention to detail / rigor
Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
Adaptability
Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)
Analytical Ability
Ability to develop and adapt a process
Ability to understand, explain and support change
Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution
Ability to manage / facilitate a meeting, seminar, committee, training…
Education Level:
Bachelor Degree or equivalent
Experience Level
At least 5 years
Other/Specific Qualifications (if required) BE/ BE+MBA
Not Applicable
