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Business Analyst
BNP Paribas
Jersey City, NJ, United States
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Business Overview:
The Intermediate Holding Company (“IHC”) program structured at the U.S. level across poles of activities of BNP Paribas provides guidance, supports the analysis, impact assessment and drives adjustments of the U.S. platform’s operating model due to the drastic changes introduced by the Enhanced Prudential Standards (“EPS”) for Foreign Banking Organizations (“FBOs”) finalized by the Federal Reserve in February 2014, implementing Section 165 of U.S. Dodd-Frank Act.
The Finance COO team ensures that appropriate solutions are put in place for the Finance (accounting) and Tax organization to meet their business objectives. The team acts as the bridge for the Finance and Tax organization to various departments within the BNP Paribas group, mainly the Business, PMO and Technology organizations in New York, New Jersey, California, Montreal, Mumbai, London and Paris.
The team works simultaneously on a wide range of projects arising from business and regulatory changes and strategic initiatives. The team is also responsible for the reengineering of existing applications to improve functionality and efficiency. The team also provides first line user support through training, research and responding to general queries.
Responsibilities:
The Business Analyst has broad-based responsibilities for the functional design, specification and deployment of Finance Systems initiatives at both a Legal Entity and IHC level. This includes:
• Elicit, analyze, and document user requirements and business processes.
• Undertake data assessment, data gap analysis and remediation.
• Develop functional specification requirements for IT development and to ensure user requirements are met.
• Perform System Testing to ensure development is in line with functional specification.
• Plan and manage User Acceptance Testing and migration testing up to successful delivery of end product.
• Manage issues and escalate effectively.
• Participate in project planning and cost estimates.
• Ensure on-time quality delivery of projects and activities assigned.
• Report on and monitor status of Finance COO team projects and data quality on a regular basis (weekly) as to inform all stakeholders of ongoing program and data status.
• Coordinate the collection of source documentation for the Data Trace process
• Manage and follow-up on data certifications to ensure timely sign-off.
• Tracking and coordinating the timely resolution of data quality issues.
• Liaise with cross-functional teams (business groups, IT and PMO organizations) in New York, New Jersey, California, Montreal, Mumbai, London and Paris.
• Rotate on the functional production support of key finance systems.
Minimum Required Qualifications
• 3+ years of work experience in the field of accounting and / or accounting system (ie. upstream to general ledger) and implementation in the financial services industry. With Project Management abilities.
• 3 + years of experience in business analysis, data sourcing, functional specification, and application testing and Banking and/or Capital Markets products.
• 3+ years of experience working with and understanding complex financial products and system architectures, including accounting business processes including financial and management reporting (IFRS and US GAAP), month-end closing process, regulatory reporting, entity consolidations and multi-currency accounting.
• University Degree in Finance or related subject.
• 2+ years of experience working effectively in geographically dispersed cross-functional teams.
• 3+ years of experience working with Microsoft software Office skills (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, Project).
Preferred Qualifications:
• Exposure to Regulatory Reporting within the Banking industry is an advantage.
clearly and concisely to audiences of varying technical or accounting levels.
• Exposure to Market and/or Client Risk, and the ALM Treasury function is advantageous.
FINRA Registrations Required:
No
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