Business Analyst- Product Control m/f/d - eFinancialCareers : Job Details

Business Analyst- Product Control

London- (x2 Days in Office)

£400-£450pd

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm Specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are currently looking for dynamic individual to join our Technology Practice as a Business Analyst in a Product control team.  

As a Business Analyst in the Product Control team, you will be instrumental in safeguarding  financial integrity. Your role will encompass the detailed reporting and reconciliation of daily profit and loss, participating in the month-end close, and ensuring compliance with all financial policies.

You’ll collaborate closely with both onshore and offshore teams, building strong relationships across Front Office, Market Risk, and Financial Control to enhance our control environment and identify opportunities for process improvement.

The role:

• Produce T+1 P&L to Front Office and obtaining daily P&L sign-off, including substantiation through comparison to trader predicts, current risk and market moves.

• Work with the Technical team and document processes at a detailed level

• Perform the analytical review of the desk P&L and explain the business drivers of the P&L movement.

• Reconciling and reporting EOD Risk and obtaining daily risk sign-off.

• Reconciling and owning inputs to the Value-at-Risk (VaR) calculations of the firm.

• Ensure that the team is in compliance with the P&L and Risk minimum standards and support projects to enhance the control environment.

• Provide reports driven by Front Office, Market Risk and Business Management.

• Month end – Liaising with Financial control to reconcile P&L Aggregator to general ledger

• Review the key control metrics and monitor the current control issues ensuring they are effectively escalated and mitigated.

Key Skills and Experience:

To succeed in this role you will need:

• 5-7years experience in a Business Analyst role in Investment bank or similar Financial services organisation

• Good financial product knowledge, preferably fixed income products.

• Strong numerate background – experienced in Data analysis/manipulation

• Experience working in a Product control team/function

• Control focused / mindset with an attention to detail

• Proven experience in Jira/Confluence

• Ability to work effectively to meet challenging deadlines and be able to work under pressure

• Ability to identify and solve problem.

• Team player with ability in managing daily processes and interacting with the business

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

• Understanding of data management frameworks and AGILE ways of working.

• Technical knowledge around technology and tools used in support of data visualization preferred SQL, T-SQL, Excel

Our people

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.

• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.

• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model

• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development

• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise

• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction

• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs

• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.