Business Analyst - Associate London, England
Job description
BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 73 countries, with more than 196,000 employees, including around 149,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets, International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors.
BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking is a globally recognised leader offering capital markets, securities services, financing, treasury and advisory solutions.
The UK Country Project Office designs and implements high profile programmes and projects throughout the UK.
The team reports directly to the UK Territory management with a broad exposure to senior stakeholders.
Job Purpose & Scope of role
The Business Analyst will work alongside a Project Manager, Programme Manager or Work Stream Lead to deliver business analysis within projects or programmes or standalone analysis of varied topics.
The Responsibilities
- Performs and documents analysis / review / study on specified topics autonomously
- Understands the nature of changes (regulatory, strategic, transformational etc.) , assesses the impact of those changes, captures, analyses and documents associated requirements
- Documents target operating models, standard operating procedures, processes, test scenarios, meeting minutes etc.
- Identifies risks and issues and develops mitigation proposals to be reviewed with the project team
- Ensures quality management and control awareness of work delivered.
- Manages multiple assignments in parallel and prioritise autonomously
- Builds and maintains relationships with sponsors, key stakeholders and business functions
- Provides regular management reporting on project progress
- Adheres to CPO standards and reporting structure
Skills & Experience Required
- Detailed knowledge of the investment banking (processes, tools, regulation etc.)
- Experience delivering complex analysis, reviews or documentations
- Experience working on transformation or regulatory projects
- Sound working knowledge of policies, procedures, regulations
- Good written and oral English skills and ability to articulate technical issues
- Excellent analytical skills, accuracy and attention to detail
- Stakeholders management skills and ability to collaborate across teams
- Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and prioritise independently
- Capacity to understand the bigger picture to appreciate context of the assignment
- Appetite to learn new concepts quickly and seek professional development.
- Proactively develops and deepens specialised knowledge and personal skills.
- Solution mindset
Equal Opportunities
BNP Paribas promotes equality of opportunity and is committed to ensuring that no individual is discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
As an employee with BNP Paribas London Branch, we want to make sure that you are rewarded for your commitment. As such, you will be entitled to our award winning benefits package which includes a generous holiday allowance of at least 34 days (including bank holidays), a non-contributory pension of 12%, private healthcare, GP service and dental cover all as standard, along with a number of personal insurances such as income protection, life assurance and personal accident insurance. We believe in ensuring all our employees have a positive work life balance so in addition you will also have access to a variety of flexible lifestyle benefits such as cycle to work and green car leasing schemes, season ticket loans and reduced cinema and gym membership to name a few.
