Business Analyst

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Job Title: Business Analyst **Department** : ITG-FRS **About Business line/Function:** FRESH is a unique organization within the BNP PARIBAS IT Group. FRESH is responsible for the alignment of IT programs with the strategy and objectives of Finance and Risk. With more than 150 team members located in Madrid and Lisbon, the FRESH EMEA hub operates as a platform providing resources and expertise to deliver on tasks and projects in all areas of Finance, Risk and ALM-Treasury. This landscape is constantly growing due to major regulatory reforms, including the implementation of ESG commitments, digital transformation with the accelerated switch towards cloud technologies and major global projects that will shape the transformation of BNP Paribas. The candidate will be a part of the Transformation team who would work on AI development projects for FRS with Paris, APAC, Nar and UK. In particular, the [AI Transformation team] aims to support our business partners in the collection/identification of eligible AI topics, the definition and design of the tooling strategy, the implementation of the solution and its maintenance in production environment. The position will lead to develop knowledge on various financial and credit risk topics as well as BNPP information system within a motivating environment **Position Purpose** ALADIN (Application for Local Analytics and Digital Invoicing) is a web based user interface providing a control framework around the invoice and accruals workflow. An invoicing and Accounts Receivable user interface centralise the rebilling of expenses (to internal and external clients), debt recovery and management information. Before ALADIN was implemented, services rendered by BNP Paribas entities to other BNP Paribas entities, were managed manually throughout three main steps: The invoices and accruals preparation and follow-up, the booking in the general ledger (GL) and the collection of payment. ALADIN are to automate the intercompany invoicing and accruals process and to include the relevant controls. ALADIN also lets its users create a reference system for the SLAs and an audit trail between the SLAs, the creation of invoices and the payments received. Finally, ALADIN also automates the creation of accounting entries relevant to intercompany recharges. **Responsibilities** Direct Responsibilities **They Include Following Activities** - Analysing user requirements and business processes, - Liaising with users and internal counterparts from Finance, IT and Operations as required, - Liaising with end-users from multiple geographies for requirements gathering, UAT and migration testing up to successful delivery of the expected solution, - Developing functional specifications for delivery to IT, - Ensuring IT developments are in line with the functional specifications, - Performing integration testing and User Acceptance Testing, - Ensuring on-time quality delivery of all activities assigned Contributing Responsibilities Transversal responsibilities - Be responsible for functional production support for finance users in APAC, UK and America’s - Assistance to maintain the application and its workflows - Perform root cause analysis for resolution of user and system issues - Co-ordinate with IT to solve production issues - Raise service now tickets and incidents for issues - Timely escalation of issues as per escalation matrix - Adherence to the support procedure guidelines as per Standard - Operating Procedures (SOP’s) Contributing Responsibilities - Managing/helping seniors to manage product backlog - Give training on new functionalities to Finance users, Support Team (incl. IT) **Technical & Behavioral Competencies** - Good understanding of basic accounting concepts - Strong analytical and problem solving skills - Good documentation skills - Commitment to project deadlines, sense of drive and urgency Strong communication and interpersonal skills, **able to communicate and relate easily with IT** , Finance and back office users Native English is required. **Specific Qualifications** Candidate must have a master’s degree or equivalant **Technical Skills** **Skills Referential** **(** **Required knowledge, skills and abilities)** - Business Analysis - SDLC, Agile - Knowledge of Accounts payable, receivable **Transversal Skills** - Ability to understand, explain and support change - Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution - Ability to develop and leverage networks - Ability to manage / facilitate a meeting, seminar, committee, training… - Analytical Ability **Behavioral Skills** - Ability to collaborate / teamwork - Be customer oriented - Be results oriented - Ability to analyze - Critical thinking - Ability to anticipate business / strategic changes - Ability to understand, explain and lead change - Creativity & Innovation / Ability to solve problems - Ability to define relevant performance indicators **Education Level:** Master degree or equivalent **Location:** Chennai/Mumbai Experience level – 5 years or more **About BNP Paribas Group** BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group’s commercial & personal banking and several specialized businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment, and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realize their projects through