Senior Business Analyst - Corporate Banking

Commercial Bank Of Qatar

Commercial Bank, founded in 1975 and headquartered in Doha, plays a vital role in Qatar’s economic development by offering a range of personal, business, government, international and investment services.

Responsible for all performance management, reporting and analytics functions for Wholesale Banking, including regulatory reporting and performance analytics. Along with the Business Data Steward(s) of the SBU, develop and support the report development process and coordinate with Technical Data Stewards in CBIU and the Data Champion of Wholesale Banking to define the report requirements and translate them into Data Quality rules to be developed on the Data Governance Platform.

• Responsible for regulatory reporting along with relevant Business Data Steward(s) for all regulatory reporting and data validation requirements.
• Develop and maintain Data Domain structures for the SBU in collaboration with the Data Excellence Centre and Compliance as needed.
• Understand and work on Data Domain structures for the SBU in collaboration with the Data Excellence Centre and Compliance as needed.
• Understand and configure all report requests according to regulatory requirements and ensure reports are submitted within communicated timelines.
• Understand and implement the Bank's and QCB policies, procedures, instructions and circulars.
• Fulfil maker-checker activity, discuss and resolve matters that span multiple business units and/or existing working groups.
• Drive business performance.
• Deliver business presentations of high quality for internal and external stakeholders to regularly communicate business performance, competitive analysis, product performance and cross‑sell, client experience, compliance and risk matters, learning and development and any other requirements from time to time.
• Develop, institutionalise, monitor and ensure booking of all revenue streams and identify revenue leakage areas.
• Develop and institutionalize ownership and tracking of KPIs that drive business performance (portfolio and individual level).
• Establish a standard set of management information aligned with the relevant KPIs of the business.
• Improve analytics supporting margin management and risk‑adjusted returns (FTP and RAROC principles).
• Manage budgeting cycle and forecasting.
• Contribute to preparation of the annual budget (Balance Sheet and PnL) for Wholesale Banking and business units within, in line with the strategic plan.
• Facilitate development of regular forecasting processes that more effectively predict financial outcomes within Wholesale Banking portfolio.
• Monitor financial performance versus the budget so that the business is aware of anticipated Balance Sheet and PnL numbers and potential areas of unsatisfactory performance.
• Improve identification and communication of drivers of financial outcomes and deviation from targets.
• Continuous improvement of reporting efficiency and business analytics.
• Establish regular dialogue with business heads, relationship managers and other bank stakeholders and be well networked into various aspects of the business.
• Establish understanding of business requirements and coordinate delivery of product and service by the team.
• Facilitate development of a program to centralise the production of business MI where this improves efficiency.
• Drive automation, process efficiency improvement and MIS enhancement.
• Drive automation of all revenue line items (especially manually intensive processes, including preparation of the MI to the business).
• Work with IT, Operations and Finance on enhancements to the management reporting streams to meet business demands, including accurate revenue allocation.
• Where applicable, project manage the automation of management reporting.
• Assist in addressing open regulatory and audit issues (QCB, external and internal audit).
• Identify areas of process improvement in line with regulatory and audit findings.

• Timely and accurate presentations and reports.
• Incremental revenue booking.
• Improve quantity and quality of MI provided to the business, including revenue and profitability analysis by client, product and portfolio;…