Senior Business Analyst - Risk
Join a globally active financial services firm as a Senior Business Analyst - Risk, where you'll help shape the future of risk management capabilities. This role sits at the heart of a strategic transformation program focused on enhancing client and market risk infrastructure. You'll work closely with stakeholders and technical teams to define business needs and translate them into clear, actionable requirements that support the development of scalable, compliant, and forward-looking solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage with internal departments and external partners to capture and refine business and technical requirements.
- Convert stakeholder input into structured deliverables for development teams, ensuring clarity and alignment with strategic goals.
- Collaborate across risk domains - including market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk - to co-design integrated solutions.
- Contribute to the evolution of end-to-end processes and systems that meet both regulatory and operational expectations.
- Facilitate workshops and cross-functional discussions to align on priorities, scope, and delivery timelines.
- Act as a senior advisor to product leadership, proactively identifying areas for improvement and innovation.
Key Requirements
- Solid experience in business analysis within financial risk environments, ideally involving derivatives and exposure modelling.
- Familiarity with capital adequacy frameworks such as SA-CCR and FCCM.
- Proven ability to bridge business and technical teams, translating strategic goals into detailed specifications.
- Skilled in stakeholder engagement across diverse functions and geographies.
- Capable of developing business cases and presenting complex ideas in a clear, structured manner.
- Comfortable leading workshops and communicating with large groups.
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