Business Analyst ( financial services )

Business
Analysts play a leading role in national and international projects at the
intersection of business and IT.

As Business Analyst
you are particularly active in developing, implementing and improving business
processes. You will use your knowledge, experience and network in order to
acquire new contracts and you are able to develop new solutions and service
offerings.

 Function

• My client distinguishes a number of areas
  where a Business Analyst can specialize:

• Payments

Focuses on the
analysis, improvement of payments engines like SEPA. The strive for a Single
Euro Payments Area requires a great effort from all the banks. Your role as an
analyst can vary from conducting strategic studies to the implementation of
back-office systems.

• Capital
  Markets

Focuses on risk,
analysis of regulations and more efficient organizational design. Next to that
the business analyst is in charge of improving business processes and their
supporting information systems. Introduction of new products, outsourcing and
of offshoring of business processes and IT and the impact of increasingly
demanding customers, lead to a quickly changing Capital Markets field.

 

• Banking

Focuses on product
innovations, shared service centers, developing new service concepts,
optimization of distribution channels (Internet, call centers, mobile channel)
and the replacement of systems by building or off-the-shelve solutions. All
this takes place in the field of (amongst others) savings, loans and mortgages.

 

• Insurance
  and Pensions (Life insurance, Pensions, Property and Casualty)

Focuses on the market
of insurers, life insurers and pension funds. Issues are changes in regulations
and insurance products, due to changing legislations, increased cost awareness
and optimization of business processes. Key issues are: improvement of
customer/participant communication, channel management and cost reduction.

 

• Business
  Process Management (BPM)

Focus on the analysis,
design, improvement and implementation of processes. Advise in the areas of
tooling, methods and techniques, and implementing them. Translation of
requirements regarding compliance and operational risk management into concrete
measures in the process design. Testing the quality of processes in order to
improve them and make process performance measurable.

Job Requirements

Education

• Bachelor or Master degree or equivalent
  through relevant experience

• or experience in similar roles within this
  field, such as Functional Designer, Information Analyst, System Analyst or
  Process Analyst

Senior Business Analyst

• 5+years of appropriate work experience and
  an appealing (management-tier) network

Soft skills

• Ambitious


• Cooperation


• Entrepreneurship


• Strong communications skills as well as
  liaising with stakeholders


• Excellent consulting and advisory skills
  and background in requirements solicitation and synthesis


• Team player


• Stress resistant


• Active listening and comprehension


• Customer oriented


• Qualitative result driven

Languages and mobility

• Permanent residency in Belgium


• Fluent in English


• English


• Geographic mobility – you must be ready to
  accept assignments anywhere in Belgium, and potentially abroad