Assistant Vice President - IT Business Analyst

We are looking for a Business Analyst to join our Regulatory Reporting IT team in London.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Capture and manage functional and non-functional requirements.
• Leverage business and technical resources and knowledge to challenge and refine requirements.
• Turn captured requirements into detailed mapping specifications and solution designs working with the development teams and users.
• Definite quality/acceptance criteria and test cases in agreement with business.
• Work with upstream teams to ensure the delivery of data points required for the Regulatory suite of applications.
• Assist with the estimation process and review of backlog tasks.
• Take ownership of end-to-end testing activities including regression testing.
• Provide level three support for run the bank activities.
• Undertake other analytical work as directed including data mining and gap analysis.
• Adhere to team duties relating to specified project management methodology. E.g. agile culture, agile development, and testing (both within and across teams) and management processes.

Qualifications, Skills, And Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
• Proven experienced in translating business requirements into detailed functional specifications, as well having the ability to prototype functionality before development (e.g., report layouts, sandbox testing etc).
• Knowledge of a wide range of trading book asset classes including interest rate derivatives, SFTs, bonds, credit derivatives and equities.
• Proven experience within the field of UK/EU Pillar 1 Prudential Regulatory Reporting including COREP Own Funds, Leverage Ratio, Large Exposures, FRTB and Bank of England Statistical reporting.
• Proven experience in data analysis and mapping data between systems.
• Proven experience of full involvement in project life cycles.
• Proven experience of issue resolution through data mining and investigation.
• Good understanding of software development lifecycle with ability to contribute to the design of software solution.
• Experience of relational database design and ability to write SQL queries against Oracle & MS SQL Server.
• Knowledge of Axiom vendor system desirable but not essential.
• Appreciation of accounting concepts is desirable but not essential.
• Experience of XML, JSON and MongoDB is desirable but not essential.

We champion a flexible work environment, as we understand the need for people to meet other commitments or simply strike a good work-life balance. As such, we are happy to talk flexible working for this role such as reduced working hours. The role will also include homeworking.

At Mizuho we are committed to supporting equality and diversity and seek to create a workplace that is fully inclusive. We welcome applications from all sections of the community that we operate in and from all ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, beliefs, gender identities and disabilities.

If you require more information about our equal opportunities policy or wish to discuss any accessibility requirements or reasonable adjustments, please contact the recruitment team – recruitment@mhcb.co.uk and we will be happy to help.