Business Analysts (financial systems) Amsterdam | Banking & Finance sector | in-house position
This international company continuously strives to give every client a voice and listens and responds to their needs. Focused on innovation, new product developments and enhancements, this company is positioned to help clients to be more competitive and address their business challenges and strategic goals. They take information security very seriously and provide industry-leading secure and reliable solutions. This interesting company is committed to protecting the assets of theirs clients and their customers.
As a Business Systems Analyst in Amsterdam, under the supervision of the Business Systems Analyst Manager, you interact with clients to determine any modifications that need to be made to an application. You work on client implementations by a suite of products from contract stage up to handover.
You will operate a real-time, multi-currency, deposit and loan core banking system developed as a single integrated solution. You are required to become the expert of this system and therefore are required to have a retail banking business background. To be a successful candidate, you will use your knowledge to assess needs, provide expert requirements analysis, formulate work estimates, contribute to project planning and help design solutions in cooperation with technical development resources. You have the ability to create and offer alternative solutions to clients and developers alike and have a penchant for removing or working around obstacles that block a project’s success. As Business Systems Analyst, you play a valuable and contributing part in the success of these large scale and often high profile projects.
General duties and responsibilities include:
-Performs client interviews to establish business requirements
-Takes responsibility for adhering to project plans, ensuring that project deliverables are completed on time.
-Ability to translate business requirements into structured form (UML or other standardised analytical language).
-Performs gap-analysis with the assistance of other team members.
-Performs review, analysis and evaluation of business and user requirements.
-Writes documentation of detailed business requirements and business flows for development projects.
-Reviews all design solutions for accuracy and adherence to the business requirements.
-Gives design input through knowledge of software and industry to ensure all accommodations have been made.
-Answers functional questions about the system.
-Documents training materials and provides training if needed.
-Researches and documents bugs, communicates issues to developers and support staff and works the bug lists to ensure reasonable turnaround.
Skills and experience
We are looking for someone who is available fulltime with a minimum of 4 years working experience . Continually, our preferred candidate possesses the following qualifications:
-Bachelor’s or master degree in business, finance or a related field is preferred.
-Fluent in English.
-Experience in the Banking Industry.
-Knowledge of basic financial analysis principles and ratios.
-Proficiency in standard office software, such as MS Office, Visio, MS Access, etc.
-Knowledge of software development methodologies
-Excellent verbal and written communication skills to audiences of various levels in the organisation.
Characteristics
A successful Business Systems Analyst possesses the following skills:
-People skills: able to act with integrity and respect for others, strong negotiation skills, political sensitive, professional impartial, service oriented, personal time management and ability to achieve success through exercise of influence.
-Ability to work in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment.
-A high degree of attention to quality, detail and deadlines.
Offered:
This company will be offering a generous salary depending on experience/added value, a very attractive bonus scheme, a generous benefit package, a professional development programme and training schemes, holiday allowance, pension scheme, and much more!
Our respectable client is a great place to work as they are an equal opportunity employer. Prospective employees will receive consideration without discrimination because of race, colour, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.
Interested? Please forward your CV to mario@servicedrivenprofessionals.nl or call 0610299158.
Met vriendelijke groet/ Kind regards,
Mario John Lemmers BSc.
Service Driven Professionals | Senior IT Staffing Consultant
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