Senior Business Analyst

Leino; Dubai; On-site; AED 320,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Leino in Dubai seeks a Senior Business Analyst for the Regulatory Reporting Value Stream within Group Finance. You will analyze regulatory requirements, drive process optimization, and implement automation of file-based reporting in a banking environment, supporting ECB remediation activities.

You’ll translate complex data into clear business and data needs and collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to ensure compliant solutions.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of experience in banking regulatory reporting or equivalent domain.
• Strong, practical, hands-on knowledge of banking products, systems, processes, and financial data.
• Senior track record demonstrated in CV with extensive business analysis, requirements engineering, and process modelling.

Responsibilities

• Act as liaison between business and IT to ensure compliant regulatory reporting solutions.
• Analyze and implement new regulatory requirements and automate manual file-based processes.
• Lead ECB remediation initiatives and contribute to data quality and reporting accuracy.
• Translate complex datasets and statistical concepts into clear business insights for stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and maintain strong stakeholder engagement.

Skills

Senior Business Analyst

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Regulatory reporting

Data interpretation

English fluency

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Company Description

Leino is a senior IT partner specializing in staff augmentation and full-cycle product development for clients across the GCC and worldwide. The company quickly adds experienced engineers to client teams or delivers end-to-end products, operating as a committed partner that treats each solution as its own. Leino provides stability and reliability in contrast to lengthy hiring processes and short-term freelance engagements. Based in Dubai (FZCO), Leino supports diverse industries with scalable, high-quality technology services.

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join the Regulatory Reporting Value Stream within the Group Finance Department.

The engagement focuses on regulatory compliance, process optimization, and business analysis in a banking environment. The consultant will support regulatory reporting initiatives by analyzing and implementing new business and regulatory requirements, driving automation of manual file-based processes, identifying opportunities to reduce manual adjustments, and contributing to ECB remediation activities.

The Business Analyst will act as a key liaison between business and IT stakeholders, ensuring the delivery of efficient, compliant, and sustainable regulatory reporting solutions. The role requires strong analytical capabilities, stakeholder management skills, and a solid understanding of banking regulatory reporting processes, financial data, and reporting systems.

Seniority: Senior, Very High End Consultant required

Musts Required

Proven 7 - 10+ years of experience in business knowledge of banking regulatory reporting (Baltics banks level highly preferred, EU as fallback)

Strong, practical, proven, justified in-depth knowledge/hands-on-based understanding of banking products, systems, processes, and financial data

Senior proven clearly showcased in the CV via numerous tasks experience in business analysis and requirements engineering

Senior proven clearly showcased in the CV via numerous tasks experience in business process modelling

Proven and very fluent justified ability to analyze and translate regulatory reporting requirements into clear business and data requirements

Strong very mature, practical, proven, justified in-depth knowledge/hands-on-based understanding of reporting rules, validation logic, and supervisory expectations

Proven justified ability to translate complex datasets and statistical concepts into clear business insights

Strong leadership, proactiveness and stakeholder engagement skills, high-end English and top-notch soft skills, convincing, confidence

Experience working in cross-functional teams

Results-oriented mindset

Good understanding of Data Literacy principles

Knowledge of software development processes and methodologies

Understanding of data warehouse and reporting concepts and solutions

Hands-on proven experience with Atlassian Jira and proven practical long-term experience of work in Agile teams

Hands-on proven experience with Confluence

Strong, utmost senior analytical and reporting skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Fluent English (spoken and written)

Skills that will put you in front of other candidates at once; thus, they are sort of must-haves if we want to get into the project smoothly

Knowledge of BCBS239

Experience with ECB remediation initiatives

• Experience in finance or banking transformation projects