Responsibilities & Tasks:

Production of business requirements for project initiatives within the area, which includes overall responsibility of analysis, documentation, and testing of Risk Management business requirements.

• Liaise with risk analysts and managers to understand and document existing and new business processes
• Recommend changes to business processes as appropriate.
• Document project specific business requirements and liaise with IT as necessary.

Supporting end-to-end development in various project stages, especially the Testing of business requirements

• Work with the development teams to ensure the requirements are well understood
• Alongside Test Team, plan and execute testing of business requirements liaising with IT and risk analysts as necessary.

Able to stand in as a SME in various project meetings while communicating with development teams and external clients.

• Develop knowledge of Market Risk and be able to understand the key foundations of risk management.
• Able to communicate the importance and need of business requirements to project teams
• Check that the requirements provided are accurate and complete and be able to question the validity/need of business requirements

This role is aimed at a self-starter who can take on responsibilities independently for project delivery with minimal supervision. The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge and experience of Business Analysis in financial services area ideally with some experience in Market Risk projects.

The candidate should be able to understand simple mathematical risk related concepts (e.g. VaR) and able to model these using Excel macros.

This is an ideal role to apply past Business Analysis experience in a structured Prince2 environment and will provide significant opportunities to build up Market Risk knowledge for a variety of products.