Business Analyst Lending Services and Trade Finance Services

John Clements Consultants, Inc.; Makati; On-site; PHP 700,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial consulting firm in Metro Manila is seeking a Business Analyst. The role involves analyzing requirements, processes, and data within Finance and lending services. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, a background in Finance, and excellent communication abilities. Responsibilities include ensuring quality of requirements and supporting team cooperation to meet deliverables.

Qualifications

• Experience with Business Analysis in a Finance domain.
• Ability to present analyses in a clear and concise manner.
• Practical experience in Banking, Financial Accounting & Reporting.

Responsibilities

• Elicit coherent sets of requirements and manage backlog.
• Analyze current processes and provide clear designs.
• Investigate the quality of captured data and propose solutions.
• Translate policies into design solutions.

Skills

Strong analytical capabilities

Excellent communication

Knowledge of Business Analysis

Experience with Agile and/or Lean

Affinity with financial data

Education

Bachelor/Master level in business administration or comparable

Job description

Job Overview

Your new job! The COO Finance department delivers Finance related services to its stakeholders, i.e. Group Finance, CFO’s of countries and Wholesale Banking, Risk, Tax and Bank Treasury. These services encompass operations and change initiatives for accounting, reporting, utilities, data foundation and business advice services, including system, process, data and information management and analytics capabilities. The services are by design reliable, secure and in control. Change is delivered in accordance with the Finance strategy and implementation and decommissioning roadmap.

We are looking for a Business Analyst (BA) for the Tribe Statutory and Regulatory Reporting in the product area of Lending- and Trade Finance Services (LS & TFS). This Tribe delivers on time, transparent and standardized solutions according to the standards of the external local and central regulators and auditors meeting our minimum control requirements.

The BA reports to the Product Lead LS & TFS.

As BA you work in a squad with around 10-15 colleagues from different areas of expertise and location (NL, IN, PH). Together with your squad members you do everything to realize the committed deliverables of the squad while keeping the application and services (BAU) stable and reliable. Work is done in close cooperation with stakeholders and other Tribes.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for an energetic and driven expert with strong analytical capabilities who uses state‑of‑the‑art methods and techniques for business analysis to support the services provided under the products Lending & Trade Finance Services. With the source system landscape constantly changing, you will bring experience on source system migrations and related Finance activities. You have an integral, domain‑exceeding knowledge of these Banking Products and Finance. You are an excellent communicator and able to build bridges between different stakeholders. You are able to convincingly bring forward your proposals and as a real team player acquire broad agreement on the road to follow.

You are focused on process design and the translation to IT. You take care of the coordination of the content between specialists from the different domains. You ensure that all requirements of all relevant stakeholders are acknowledged in the analyses and the different solution designs. You support Tribes and squads to take decisions by presenting the different (functional and solution) design alternatives and their impact in a clear way. You guarantee that the business requirements and non‑functional requirements are translated to the IT Solution requirements and implemented accordingly. You co‑operate with architects and specialists to arrive at a suitable solution.

Responsibilities

• Requirements analysis: You elicit sets of coherent requirements. You take care that the requirements are complete, consistent, of good quality and that they are translated correctly in the design and are maintained and if necessary are adjusted if changes occur. You support the product owners and the squads in managing the backlog by translating and prioritizing the epics to features and together with the squad into user stories.
• Process analysis: You analyze the current situation, the problems that occur and the underlying causes. Based on this analysis you provide clear process designs.
• Information analysis: You analyze the necessary input, output and adjustment of data in the client processes. You investigate the quality of the captured data and come up with solutions to improve the quality.
• Risk analysis: You can translate the policy and regulation of Operational Risk Management, Legal & Compliance to design solutions.

Qualifications and Background

• Education at Bachelor/Master level in (business) administration or comparable.
• You have knowledge of and experience with Business Analysis in a Finance domain.
• You are a strong communicator in English; you are able to present your analyses in a clear and concise manner.
• You have working knowledge and practical experience with Agile and/or Lean.
• You have knowledge and experience in Business and IT in the context of Banking, Financial Accounting & Reporting.
• You take responsibility to get the work done, have a can‑do mentality.
• You continuously improve the way you are working and you strive to work in a high performing team.
• You speak up, actively ask for help and embrace a feedback culture.
• You continuously improve yourself and you help your colleagues in their development.
• You have a clear affinity with financial data and related tooling to support data analysis.