OBIEE - Sr Business Analyst

About BNP Paribas Group:

BNP Paribas is a top-ranking bank in Europe with an international profile. It operates in 71 countries and has almost 199000 employees. The Group ranks highly in its three core areas of activity: Domestic Markets and International FinancialServices (whose retail banking networks and financial services are grouped together under Retail Banking & Services)and Corporate & Institutional Banking, centred on corporate and institutional clients. The Group helps all of its clients(retail, associations, businesses, SMEs, large corporates and institutional) to implement their projects by providing them with services in financing, investment, savings and protection. In its Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial Services activities, BNP Paribas enjoys leading positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and has a solid and fast-growing network in the Asia/Pacific region.

About BNP Paribas India Solutions:

Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. India Solutions services three business lines: Corporate and Institutional Banking, Investment Solutions and Retail Banking for BNP Paribas across the Group. Driving innovation and growth, we are harnessing the potential of over 6000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions

About Business line/Function :

Under BNP Paribas IT Group, FRESH is the IT framework encompassing Projects & Systems of Finance and RISK functions, with a strong focus on efficiency, proximity, agility and time-to-market.

FRESH is a worldwide organizational model that will contribute to tackle major challenges of the Group’s transformation of today and tomorrow, building the best offering to the Finance and Risk Community through a progressive rotation to new technologies and best practices. The FRESH organization is the outcome of several convergences: between the Project & Systems teams of Group Finance, CIB Finance and RISK and their related IT teams.

FRESH is part of the IT Group organization (ITG in Europe and ITO overseas) with a threefold sponsorship by ITG, Finance and RISK (CIB-ITO; RISK Solutions and ITG-FIT).

Job Title:

Sr. Business Analyst

Date:

June 10, 2021

Department:

FRESH Shared Ecosystem

Location:

Infinity/NKP - Mumbai

Business Line / Function:

OBIEE-OAS/Tableau

Reports to:

(Direct)

Grade: (if applicable)

(Functional)

Number of Direct Reports:

0

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

The analyst will be a part of the ISPL Mumbai – OBIEE/OAS (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) projects team. The Business analyst will primarily work on Regulatory / Financial Reporting / Credit Risk reporting Projects.

Responsibilities

Business Analyst Responsibilities

The Business Analyst has broad-based responsibilities for the functional design, specification and deployment of Finance Systems initiatives at both a Legal Entity and IHC level. This includes:

• Perform daily reconciliation and controls on financial data/reports and analyze the breaks and provide the root cause


• Elicit, analyze, and document Business/Functional requirements and procedure documents.


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  Undertake data assessment, data gap analysis and remediation.


• Develop functional specification requirements for IT development and to ensure user requirements are met.


• Plan, test and document UAT/System/Integration testing up to successful delivery of project.


• Change & Release Management.


• Prepare the slides for regular Management meetings and present the same.


• Managing the data load for testing the data in each release.


• Co-ordinate with the stakeholders on sign off and approval of User/Business requirement, Test cases and Test results.


• Update the Jira Tracker as the new change requests are created.


• Update the Test cases, Test Evidences in HP ALM/JIRA during the testing phase.


• Deliver projects within agreed timeframe and managing issues and timely escalations.


• Liaise with cross functional teams, business groups, IT and PMO organizations in New York, New Jersey, California, Montreal, and Mumbai.


• Ensure on-time quality delivery of projects and activities assigned.


• Contribute to the design and implementation of processes that aim to improve the Finance Systems framework.


• Contribute to knowledge sharing across the COO Organization.


• SQL knowledge will be added advantage.


• The role involves performing root cause analysis on CHANGE the BANK and RUN the BANK projects

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Data Analyst

• Ability to source, transform and analyze large data sets.


• Experience in reconciliations and tracing data elements through transformation processes is critical.


• Ability to identify issues, develop solutions, manage short term and permanent fixes


• Record experiences and develop operating procedures.

Business Analytical skills

• Eliciting user requirements and transforming them to functional specifications/Change requirements.


• Preparing business test cases.


• Liaising with development team on the production queries & enhancements.


• Managing testing and deployment.


• Experience with software development life cycle & implementation


• Develop processes combining applications & people interactions

Technical Skills

• Ability to work with large data sets in MS Excel and corresponding tools and formulae like pivots, lookups etc.


• Understand database concepts – tables, master & referential data, building primary keys etc


• SQL Skills required.


• Knowledge/experience of: Oracle applications (OFSAA, OBIEE) will be added advantage


• BI tools like Tableau, Power BI skills are not mandatory but preferable.

Behavioral Competencies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.


• Conduct meetings with global stakeholders, prepare minutes & summaries.


• Assertiveness, Negotiation, Proactivness & Prioritization skills are important.


• Discipline in documenting, following-up on issues and changes.

• Experience in interacting with global stakeholders and independently managing discussions.

Specific Qualifications (if required)

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Communication skills - oral & written

Ability to synthetize / simplify

Attention to detail / rigor

Organizational skills

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Analytical Ability

Ability to understand, explain and support change

Ability to develop and adapt a process

Ability to manage / facilitate a meeting, seminar, committee, training…

Ability to develop and leverage networks

Education Level:

MBA in Finance, Bachelor’s Degree

Experience Level

3-6 years

Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)

• Business analyst needs to have very good functional skills, intermediate knowledge of SQL and overview of finance application, ledgers and reporting ecosystems.


• Former experiences within a Finance function in Banking and Financial Services or Capital Market domain

Specific Qualifications (if required)

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Communication skills - oral & written

Ability to synthetize / simplify

Attention to detail / rigor

Organizational skills

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Analytical Ability

Ability to understand, explain and support change

Ability to develop and adapt a process

Ability to manage / facilitate a meeting, seminar, committee, training…

Ability to develop and leverage networks

Education Level:

MBA in Finance, Bachelor’s Degree

Experience Level

3-6 years

Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)

• Business analyst needs to have very good functional skills, intermediate knowledge of SQL and overview of finance application, ledgers and reporting ecosystems.


• Former experiences within a Finance function in Banking and Financial Services or Capital Market domain