Senior Business Analyst for Granular Regulatory Reporting in Amsterdam

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.

As a BA, you work in a squad with around 7-9 colleagues covering the whole range of expertise in the squad. Together, you work on a common purpose. You like to work in a constructive way in a multidisciplinary squad. Together with your squad members you do everything within your power to realise your common mission day by day.

The BA reports to the Chapter Lead. The BA can fulfil the role of Product Owner within a squad, determining the priorities for the squad.

Role and responsibilities 

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.

You are an excellent communicator and able to build bridges between different stakeholders. 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 analyse complex Finance business issues that go beyond squad and/or tribe boundaries, with a view to designing complete solutions for the requested change.  You deliver excellently substantiated analyses using state-of-the-art techniques and tools, which lead to functional designs that cover all change deliverables. You are focused on process design and the translation to IT.  You ensure that all requirements of all relevant stakeholders are acknowledged in the analyses and the different solution designs.  You support tribes and squads in their decision-making by presenting the different (functional and solution) design alternatives and their impact in a clear way.

You guarantee that the business requirements and non-functional requirements are translated into IT Solution requirements. 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:

• Requirement’s 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 can translate the policy and regulation of ORM, Compliance and Legal into design solutions. 

Further responsibilities

• Read and understand regulatory requirements
• Requirement gathering and elicitation
• Stakeholder management (discuss with Policy and Procedure, Group Finance)
• Execute functional acceptance testing
• Develop / maintain documentation to clarify the working of functionality for different stakeholders
• Convert regulatory requirement into specifications for Developers.
• Provide second line support

How to succeed 

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself. Furthermore, you have:

• University (Bachelor’s/Master’s) degree in (business) economics or a comparable field (must have)
• 3-5 years of hands-on experience as a BA with implementing and designing complex functional solutions in a financial institution (must have)
• Banking products knowledge (must Have)
• Knowledge of any Regulatory Reporting e.g., COREP / FINREP / AnaCredit / Commercial Real Estate (must have)
• Hands on experience on SQL for data analysis (must have)
• Hands on experience on MS excel
• Knowledge on functional testing
• Knowhow of Agile way of working
• Excellent Communication skills, written communication and power to convince (in English)
• Ability to work under tight deadlines
• Strong team player, pro-active, ability to connect, positive mind-set, flexibility, focused on cooperation and sharing knowledge

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Rewards & benefits  

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions .  

The benefits of working with us at ING include: 

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience 
• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract 
• 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 
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues 
• Work Agile, so new ideas come to life faster 

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About us 

With 57,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us and apply today!