Finance business analyst

KYYBA Inc; Montreal; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company based in Montreal is seeking a Finance professional to analyze user requirements and liaise with internal counterparts. The role requires 5 to 10 years of experience as a Business Analyst and strong skills in accounting and finance systems. Responsibilities include ensuring the delivery of expected solutions and coordinating with users for requirements gathering and testing.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years of experience as a Business Analyst in finance.
• Experience with regulatory reporting systems.
• Good working knowledge of CIB’s core businesses.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing user requirements and business processes.
• Liaising with users and internal counterparts across multiple locations.
• Ensuring on-time quality delivery of all activities assigned.

Skills

Analytical and problem solving skills

Strong accounting skills

Good communication and interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Good documentation skills

Education

Qualified accountant or relevant professional qualification

Tools

Calypso

Murex

Axiom

Job description

Main responsibilities will include :

• Analyzing user requirements and business processes,
• Liaising with users and internal counterparts from Finance, IT and Operations in NY, Montreal, London, Paris and Mumbai,
• Providing users with Subject Matter expertise for finance processes and systems,
• Liaising with end-users for requirements gathering, UAT and migration testing up to successful delivery of the expected solution,
• Developing functional specifications for delivery to IT,
• Ensuring IT developments are in line with the functional specifications,
• Performing integration testing and User Acceptance Testing,
• Ensuring on-time quality delivery of all activities assigned.

REQUIREMENTS

TRAINING AND OCCUPATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Proven experience as a Finance professional with good working knowledge of CIB’s core businesses, in particular a good knowledge of the financial systems

A good understanding of the finance and IT functions in the context of a CIB Bank,

A solid background (5 to 10 years of experience) in a role of Business Analyst

Extensive experience in working with users and their interaction with IT and systems

Experience of working with back office systems in terms of accounting and profit and loss flows such as Calypso, Murex, OMR, UBIX …

Experience of accountancy systems (3rd party or in-house)

Experience of regulatory reporting systems such as offerings from Axiom, WKFS, Lombard Risk…

Knowledge of RDJ or other accounting interpretation engines

ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

Qualified accountant or other relevant professional qualification.

PRINCE2 qualified or other is a benefit but not essential

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS

Good understanding of the products traded by an Investment Bank : Foreign Exchange, Interest Rates derivatives, securities, Repos, Credit derivatives …

Strong accounting skills

Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Proven organizational skills with excellent multi-tasking and prioritization skills

Good systems skills, good understanding of IT databases (although programming skills are not required)

Good documentation skills

Ability to work independently

Commitment to project deadlines, sense of drive and urgency

Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to communicate and relate easily with IT, Finance and back office users.