Lead Business Analyst

Private & Business Clients

Private & Business Clients (PBC) is Germany’s leading banking address for private, business and commercial customers. Our outstanding advisory services and multitude of excellent products enable us to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction.
To maintain and strengthen our position, we continually improve our services, always striving to find even better solutions and to set new standards in banking services.

Through its three sales divisions Private & Commercial Banking and Postbank in Germany as well as Advisory Banking International with operations in Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland and India, the division has over 2,900 branches serving more than 28 million clients. 

The Chief Operation Office functions comprises PBC's global strategic functions and operational centers for the sales divisions.

As a Lead Functional Analyst your main responsibilities will involve:

• Defining and refining business cases in conjunction with PWCC as part of the Project initiation;
• Challenging, capturing and articulating requirements according to the quality standards operating within the team;
• Maintaining and managing the product backlog to ensure priorities are agreed and clear with PWVCC;
• Identifying cost effective solutions to business problems;
• Acting as the voice of the client throughout the development process;
• Liaising with all parties (Treasury, Operations, IT delivery team) involved to ensure successful delivery;
• Assisting and supporting QAT and UAT;
• Ensuring agreed analysis deliverables are prepared according to deadline of the projects;
• Mediating and resolving issues as and when they arise;
• Cooperating with other teams such as Finance and their IT teams to ensure strategic data sourcing is aligned;
• Identifying areas where we can improve the analysis and delivery capabilities of the wider team;
• Keeping aware of the latest industry trends and best practice in order to improve the team.

As a Lead Functional Analyst your skills will include:

• Outstanding analysis skills comprising demonstrable experience of all aspects of analysis such as business process modelling, use cases/user story writing, data modelling, UML;
• Experience in stakeholder management and building excellent professional relationships;
• Previous experience of working on Liquidity Risk projects within PWCC;
• Excellent level of knowledge on Liquidity Risk best practices and regulatory requirements such as FSA requirements, Basel 3;
• Comfortable working within a full project life cycle from initiation through to delivery ;
• Experience of working with an agile methodology would be an advantage;
• Experience of liaison with other departments (business units, infrastructure teams, audit) across multiple countries;
• Experience in working with remote client and vendor resources;
• Experience in identifying and documenting client technical needs, internal structures, procedures, workflows and systems;
• Beneficial to have experience working on projects requiring data analysis and familiarity with Reporting and Relational Database technologies such as Oracle OBIE;
• Proven track record of delivering projects in a challenging environment;
• Fantastic written and oral communication;
• Flexible - keen to learn new technologies and to extend business domain knowledge;
• Good problem-solving skills;
• Demonstrable success in meeting deadlines and operating with clients and vendors;
• Work to schedules, potentially across multiple projects and teams;
• Pragmatic yet showing a high attention to detail;
• Educated to degree level;

We offer

• Hi-tech working environment
• Career development
• International exposure
• Attractive and competitive compensation and benefits