Business Analyst - Statutory & Regulatory Reporting (AnaCredit & CRE) in Amsterdam

Your work environment

The COO Risk & Finance department delivers Risk & Finance related services to its stakeholders, i.e. Group Finance, country CFO’s and Wholesale Banking, Risk, Tax and Bank Treasury. These services encompass operations and change initiatives for accounting, reporting, data foundation and business advice services, including system, process, data and information management, and analytics capabilities.

By design, the services are reliable, secure and in control. Change is delivered in accordance with the Finance strategy and implementation and decommissioning roadmap. The Tribe Statutory and Regulatory Reporting delivers and enables the organisation to provide on-time, high-quality, standardized financial reporting solutions, in compliance with external and internal regulations.

Your team

You will participate in a squad as a data-driven regulatory reporting expert within the S&RR Tribe. As a BA, you work in a squad with around 7-9 colleagues covering the whole range of expertise in the squad.

Your part of a multidisciplinary squad that works in a constructive way towards a common purpose. Together with your squad members you do everything within your power to realise your common mission day by day.

In this position you will report to the Chapter Lead. You can fulfill the role of Product Owner within a squad, determining the priorities for the squad. You will support tribes and squads in their decision-making by presenting the different (functional and solution) design alternatives and their impact in a clear way.

Your activities

You will be actively involved in the understanding of regulatory requirements, analysis and simplifying of requirements for swift and agile development.  As an expert you deliver the necessary knowledge and skills to make standard and best products/services for your stakeholders.

Your activities will be in the area of:

• Read and understand regulatory requirements
• Requirement gathering and elicitation
• Stakeholder management (Discuss with Policy and Procedure, Group Finance)
• Execute acceptance testing
• Develop / maintain documentation to clarify the working of functionality for different stakeholders
• Convert regulatory requirement to Technology requirement . Translate (solution) designs into IT solutions
• Second line support, Bridge with Tech and BAU team

You are able to convincingly put forward your proposals and are a real team player in reaching broad agreement on the road to follow. In this way, you can contribute to delivering standardised, uniform and fully adapted solutions to complex Finance issues and processes. You will analyse complex Finance business issues that go beyond squad and/or tribe boundaries, with a view to designing complete solutions for the requested change. Your focus is on process design and the translation to IT.  Ensuring that all requirements of all relevant stakeholders are acknowledged in the analyses and the different solution designs. 

You work together with (IT) architects and specialists to come up with a suitable IT solution. In doing so, you conduct a number of coherent analyses:

• Requirements analysis: You elicit sets of coherent requirements. You make sure that the requirements are complete, consistent, of good quality, that they are translated correctly in the design, and that they are maintained and, if necessary, adjusted if changes occur. You support the product owners and the squads in managing the backlog by translating and prioritising the epics into features and, together with the squad, into user stories. 
• Process analysis: you analyse the current situation, the problems that occur and the underlying causes. Based on this analysis, you provide clear process designs.
• Information analysis: you analyse the necessary input, output, and adjustment of data in the client processes. You analyse the information need. You investigate the quality of the captured data and come up with solutions to improve quality.
• Risk analysis: you are able to translate the policy and regulation of ORM, Compliance and Legal into design solutions. 

How to succeed

We are looking for an energetic and driven expert with strong analytical capabilities who uses state-of-the-art methods and techniques for business analysis. You have integral, domain-exceeding knowledge of Finance.

Required skills, knowledge & experience:

• University (Bachelor’s/Master’s) degree in (business) economics or a comparable field
• 3-5 years of hands on experience as a BA with implementing and designing complex functional solutions in a financial institution
• Working knowledge on Regulatory Reporting (COREP / FINREP)
• Experience with any Data Driven reporting RRE / CRE / AnaCredit
• Banking products knowledge is desired
• Fluent in the English language,spoken and written
• Basic knowledge and hands on experience on SQL is desired as it brings knowledge on functional testing
• Experience or strong understanding of the agile way of working is beneficial
• Excellent Communication skills and power to convince, able to build bridges between different stakeholders
   

What we offer

A job from 36 to 40 hours and a unique offer that fits in with the times of today. We take into account your home situation and your ambitions and help you to balance work and private life. Discover yourself our employment
To give you an idea, we will tell you about the benefits of working at ING:

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• Flexible working hours and the possibility to work at home
• A reimbursement for travel expenses
• 24 vacation days with a 36-hour working week. If you work 40 hours a week, you will receive 27 vacation days
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities to realize your ambitions
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues who strive for the very best
• Progressive way of working according to the Agile method, so that new ideas come to life