Business Analyst - Basel III Experience

General characteristics:
New Basel III regulations oblige financial service providers to calculate the LCR and NSFR. The goal is to enhance the liquidity management and monitoring.

One of the biggest challenges is based on the characteristics of the requirements:
Client bank must be able to report the LCR covering the full Group, on a daily basis (during crisis) where underlying data is on transaction-level. The NSFR has to be reported with the frequency of a month.

The "Liquidity Coverage Ratio" (LCR)
Highly liquid assets held by financial institutions in order to meet short-term obligations. The Liquidity coverage ratio is designed to ensure that financial institutions have the necessary assets on hand to ride out short-term liquidity disruptions. Banks are required to hold an amount of highly-liquid assets, such as cash or Treasury bonds, equal to or greater than their net cash over a 30 day period (having at least 100% coverage). The liquidity coverage ratio started to be regulated and measured in 2011, but the full 100% minimum won't be enforced until 2015.
The "Net Stable Funding Ratio" (NSFR)
The standard requires a minimum amount of funding that is expected to be stable over a one year time horizon based on liquidity risk factors assigned to assets and off-balance sheet liquidity exposures. The NSF ratio is intended to promote longer-term structural funding of banks' balance sheets, off-balance sheet exposures and capital markets activities.

Job objective:
The Business Analyst C is the primary contact with our stakeholders and is responsible for identifying, modelling, documenting and prioritizing the functional and non-functional requirements of the business and business domain details. The Business Analyst represents business partner and end-user concerns by gathering input from stakeholders to understand the problem to be solved and by capturing and setting priorities for requirements. They may also help to identify potential areas of automation and support or advise the business in reengineering the underlying business process. The Business Analyst acts as the liaison between our business partners and IT in order to deliver effective and cost-efficient solutions and is proactively involved in the entire software development process in order to ensure successful delivery of the system or release.

Position in the organization:
The Business Analyst C is (hierarchically) managed by the team manager of his business line within IS&D and reports on operational level to the project manager. The Business Analyst C acts as a functional guide and coach for less experienced colleagues.

Classification criteria/Scope of the Role:
You act as a pro-active partner towards our business partners.
You listen to and anticipate business partner questions, and you process those questions into a well-founded advice. Not only are you looking to the short-term needs, also you put the business partner questions in the long-term perspective, to help our business partners to offer future-oriented and innovative solutions.
You watch and analyze trends to be leading in result driven innovation and improvement.
You take ownership for our responsibility to optimally serve our business partners.
You have knowledge of and understand the business plans, the IT strategy, and the systems and tools at our disposal.
You are working continuously on improvement of our knowledge and competences to serve our business partners better.
You act as a bridge between our business partners and other units within your business line to ensure an effective and efficient translation of the business partner needs to appropriate and sustainable IT solutions.
You pay attention to tailor-made communication and documentation.

Job requirements:
Education/Level: Bachelor or Master degree. Topic of the education: ICT or Business Administration
(MUST)
Experience: 7 or more years experience in international wholesale or retail banking and/or 7 or more years experience in business analysis. (preferably in Basel regulatory related projects) (MUST)
Is familiar with the complete chain from user till development and test (MUST)
Has affinity with technical and functional architecture design in data warehouse projects (PRE)
Proven experience in business analysis in data warehouse projects (PRE)
Technical background is a nice to have (PRE)
Strong analytical skills (MUST)
Data analysis background (with strong affinity with 'in depth data research' and 'to know what it exactly is exactly about') (MUST)
SQL knowledge (PRE)
Support during UAT's (MUST)
You are able to relay requirements, ideas and opinions clearly, comprehensively and correctly (in English and Dutch, both verbally and in writing). (MUST)
You have working knowledge of Use Case diagrams and Use Case specifications. (MUST)

Methodsresponding and anticipating to this. You think from a business partner's perspective and are aimed at realising business partner value and improving service provision.
Highly political sensitive

Team:
3 other BA's, 2 developers and testers.