Our client is looking for a Senior Functional Analyst
Context
The consultant will operate in a complex financial environment, working closely with and for the Group Risk and Group Treasury department to ensure accuracy, consistency, and transparency across reporting processes.
Key Responsibilities
You will:
- Contribute to and support risk and treasury testing process based on risk and treasury calculations and reporting processes, with a strong understanding of how financial instruments behave.
- Apply your expertise in valuation of financial instruments and financial or regulatory reporting to interpret and validate complex data sets.
- Perform deep dives into data, identifying root causes of data quality and reconciliation issues with other reporting systems. This in support and cooperation with the Risk and treasury business teams.
- Investigate and resolve reconciliation discrepancies across different data sources and reporting layers.
- Develop, maintain, and improve data-related documentation, including:
- Data lineage documentation
- Data dictionaries
- Metadata and process documentation
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders while working autonomously in a result-oriented consulting setup.
Your Profile
As a senior Functional Analyst with proven experience in bank and insurance, you have over 5 years of experience in managing the functional design of information systems :
- You create the concept and manage the planning for preliminary analysis and design phase;
- You perform the functional analysis of information systems and draw up the functional design after the prestudy;
- You support changes and enhancements from development through production;
- You recommend and implement system enhancements;
- You develop new program requirements and specifications to support specific customer needs;
- You support system upgrades and resolve problems with current systems;
- You analyse service requests to determine feasibility, technological changes, resource requirements and project time estimates.
Next to a proven experience in bank and insurance, you have the following core competences : Agile Methodologies, Analytical thinking, Collaborating, Data driven, IT Security, Software development.
Education & Background
- Proven experience in data engineering or data analysis within a financial institution or a closely related environment.
- Strong understanding of banking business and financial products.
Technical & Functional Skills
- Working knowledge of risk calculations and regulatory reporting, or financial reporting.
- Working knowledge of IRRBB or liquidity risk.
- Proficiency in SQL for data analysis and investigation.
- Experience working with QS.
- Hands-on experience with RiskPro or a comparable risk reporting / calculation tool.
- Good knowledge of data modeling methodologies for data warehouses and data marts (considered a plus).
- Experience with JIRA and Confluence is a plus.
Ways of Working
- Strong analytical mindset with attention to detail. Including the ability to foresee in documentation and progress reporting.
- Comfortable performing root-cause analyses and working with complex datasets.
- Able to work autonomously, take ownership, and deliver results in a demanding environment.
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
