Senior Business Analyst

Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst (Axiom) – £700 Per Day – 12 Months – London (Hybrid) – Investment Banking

A market leading Investment Banking organization are currently searching for an experienced Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst with strong experience working with Axiom.

• Carry out analysis, design, and delivery of IT solutions supporting Capital Pillar 1 prudential reporting requirements and other regulatory frameworks.
• Partner with teams such as Finance, Risk, and Regulatory Reporting to gather, document, and validate business requirements.
• Translate evolving regulatory requirements into clear business and technical specifications.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, and QA teams to deliver robust solutions.
• Estimate tasks and define RAID items to help create project plans.
• Drive end-to-end project lifecycle for regulatory reporting initiatives, from requirements gathering through testing and implementation.
• Present project updates to senior management and governance committees as and when required.
• Perform detailed data analysis across large, complex datasets to support capital adequacy and risk-weighted asset calculations.
• Definite quality/acceptance criteria and test cases in agreement with business.
• Oversee UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and support production deployment activities.
• Assume some project management responsibility on smaller scale projects and act in a supporting role to the project manager on larger projects.

• 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, Bank of England Statistical reporting, FINREP.
• Demonstrated experience with the Axiom vendor system is a critical requirement for this role. We are seeking a Business Analyst with a strong background in mapping to Axiom data dictionaries within an IT team to support the configuration and execution of Axiom calculations for new products and solutions.
• Proven experience in data analysis and mapping data between systems.
• Proven experience in performing regression tests and explaining changes.
• Proven experience of full involvement in project life cycles.
• Proven experience of issue resolution through data mining and investigation.
• Experience of relational database design and ability to write SQL queries against Oracle & MS SQL Server.
• Appreciation of accounting concepts is desirable but not essential.
• Experience of XML, JSON and Mongo
  
  DB is desirable but not essential.

• 12 Months (Likely Extensions)
• London (Hybrid)