Senior Business Analyst

About Us

MyRemoteTeam, Inc is a fast-growing distributed workforce enabler, helping companies scale with top global talent. We empower businesses by providing world-class software engineers, operations support, and infrastructure to help them grow faster and better.

Job Title: Business Analyst

Experience: 8+

Location: Pune, Chennai, Bangalore

Domain: Investment Banking Domain

1. Good understanding of Investment Banking Products
2. Accounting of Investment Banking Products
3. Proficiency in data handling – Excel and SQL

Overall purpose of the role

Markets Finance Tech Change team specifically supports the bank's Product Control and Finance Control functions. The main functional areas covered are:

• Accounting sub-ledger functions supporting Product Control, Financial Control and Operations, with a daily trial balance that is leveraged across Risk, Finance and Treasury consumers
• Daily P&L and balance sheet finalisation processes and reporting
• Product Control valuation processes and reporting
• MI reporting to senior management

Key Accountabilities

Business and Data Analysis

• Determining business requirements and prioritizing them for change
• Defining functional requirements, which reflect the business requirements and developing approaches to enable them to be delivered via process changes or technology solutions
• Liaising with Risk, Finance and Treasury Business Stakeholders to document business outcomes, functional specifications as product backlogs for new Finance initiatives
• Defining detailed business and integration requirements using the Confluence/Wiki based documentation approach aligned with an Agile / sprint-based development methodology.
• Creating detailed GUI mock-ups and other visual requirements, as required, to be presented alongside user requirements to development /feature teams and key business stakeholders.
• Working actively and closely with feature teams to ensure user requirements/business outcomes are clearly understood and developed as specified in the documentation
• Analysing UAT issues and assisting Business users / developers with issue resolution.
• Analysing and respond to queries from Finance Product Owners/ Users.
• Analysing systems to identify functional gaps and enable them to be resolved via process changes / technology solutions
• Provide recommendations as to process re-engineering and improvements.
• Collaborating and maintaining strong relationships within Finance, Risk, Treasury teams and stakeholders

Basic/Essential Qualifications/Skills

• 8+ years experience and expertise as a Business Analyst (or) 8+ years as a Product Controller
• 8 + years of direct work experience in a business analyst capacity including but not limited to:
• Proven experience in data analysis, including SQL data queries and data interrogation
• Proven experience in data modelling
• Proven experience in business process modelling
• Proven experience in Finance – Product Control and Financial Control
• In-depth knowledge and experience of Finance processes, particularly the sub-ledger accounting functions, how to account for business events and how accounting data impacts Finance and Operations processes and controls
• Good knowledge of Investment Banking / Financial Services products
• Ability to break down a complex problem into a clearly thought through solution with well-structured analysis, design, and examples as supporting documentation
• In-depth knowledge and experience in projects adopting different delivery methods (e.g. Waterfall, Agile)
• Understanding of Agile SDLC concepts; Understanding of Scrum/Kanban Agile SDLC methodology – Product Backlog/Features, Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done etc
• Extensive experience handling stakeholders across the Senior Business (Director and Managing Director Level)
• Ability to train junior BA's and pass on best practice procedures in business and data analysis
• Good understanding of front to back finance and operational process flows