Business Analyst, Basel III Project, Banking (Contract, Lausanne)

For our client, an international bank based in Switzerland, Swisslinx are looking for a Business Analyst with knowledge of financial accounting and regulatory reporting projects to work on a Basel III project in Lausanne.

This is a six month contract starting ASAP with a strong likelihood of extension.

BUSINESS ANALYST, BASEL III PROJECT, BANKING (CONTRACT, LAUSANNE)

The core responsibilities for this role will cover the following

- Work with the Credit IT Team, business and technical architects to validate and implement the functional specifications and technical design of Basel III compliance requirements.
- Collaborate in and/or independently conduct detailed specifications of customer requirements, establish system specifications and technical designs. With the necessary technical skills participate in the implementation of these requirements.
- Collaborate in the migration, upgrade and testing of system integration interfaces and implemented application functionality.
- Assist in technical analysis, design, architecture, planning, development and support of applications and business requirements to adhere established standards and process and to ensure a smooth interoperability of the Basel III applications and environment.
- Tracking Implementation of new change requests related to FINMA requirements.
- Assist project manager during consolidation phase of any planning activities.
- Participate in all aspects of the project life cycle, following stringent rules and procedures for testing and promoting code in compliance with company change control processes
- Create and maintain documentation on Back End user procedures, reports and data definitions
- Develop technical concepts, responsibility for implementing the required and specified requirements to the projects according to the standard solution delivery processes within the bank
- Run acceptance tests in cooperation with Business and hand over to DWH operations and other support teams.
- Provide support documentations and checklists according to the system engineering standards of the bank

In order to be considered you will possess the following skills:

- Proven experience as a business analyst or requirements engineer
- Minimum of 3-4 years of engineering experience in financial industry
- Experience with all phases of the systems development life cycle (AGILE; usw.)
- Data Warehousing experience that demonstrates strong analytical skills
- Datamodelling and metadata management experience
- Several years of proven experience of design and implementation of reporting solutions
- Experience with any reporting tools, as example AXIOM, OBIEE, BRIO
- Ideally experience of Basel II/Basel III and/or Financial Accounting
- A solid understanding of standard change control policies and procedures and experience working in an IT environment with rigorous change control procedures
- Fluency in English

Are you interested in a new challenge? Then please send us your full CV.

If you possess the above skills and attributes and are interested in this opportunity, then please send your CV to Cynthia Stern. Should you require any further information then please do not hesitate to call Cynthia Stern We look forward to hearing from you.

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