Business Analyst(573887)

Making a difference

Rabobank is a bank with branches across the globe. IT Systems Wholesale & International is the IT provider for Rabobank Wholesale & International business. The systems developed and managed by IT Systems are used globally. The Rabobank Murex Scrum team is located across Utrecht, London, Pune and Melbourne so that it can provide 24×7 support and deliver change to the business who are located across numerous locations globally (e.g. Oceania, Asia, Europe, Americas).

The team is also engaged with an on-going Programme to implement next phases of the Front-to-Back-to-Risk trade processing platform based on the Murex product, replacing a number of current systems.

Our team is looking for a Business Analyst who will focus primarily on the functional area of Front Office. The perfect fit is someone who has excellent functional and technical analytical skills in relation to the front office modules of the Murex platform. Furthermore, one must be able to communicate clear requirements in the form of user stories, for which comprehensive tests will be made available as well.

With each other
Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. Our DevOps teams bring talented people together to execute all change and run activities of the Murex product. You will be T-shaped along the way to help delivering value to the product. Knowledge sharing and mentoring are considered key in the team to help each other grow and continue learning while performing our duties.

Your contribution

Delivery-focused, proactive, willing to challenge decisions and direction but align when agreed, ready to put in extra effort to achieve ambitious goals, team player, transparent and open to new ideas and ways of working, your role will require you to:

Analyse user/business requirements, construct user stories and Product Backlog Items to be developed in to system solutions
Provide 2nd and 3rd line support (including on-call out-of-office-hours and being part of a rotation scheme that requires evening work every so many weeks) for the production service; when escalated, resolve incidents and problems in area of expertise
Review and optimise requirements in liaison with the vendor and other parties
Oversee the development of functional solutions within the Murex environment
Investigate, and propose solutions, on functional and technical issues raised
Facilitate knowledge handover to team members on functional and where appropriate technical components to remove single points of expertise and key person risk
Work with other team members in an Agile/DevOps way-of-working, construct relevant solution and tests per functional requirement
Agree functional resolutions within service and project timeframes with vendor
You are part of a DevOps team with autonomy, you proactively participate in team decisions and challenge your team members on presented solutions and decisions.
In terms of technical skills around the Murex platform, it is important that you recognize the checklist below:

FO Support Skills
Investigation of Unexpected Positions (Livebook, simulation, warehouse)
Trade Capture Support (Pricing, E-Tradepad)
Trade Query
Investigation of Real-Time Market Data issues (RTBS)
Interface Support (MxML Exchange)
Fixing Procedure Support
Cash Rollover / PL Selldown Support
FO Development Skills
Curve configuration (Pricing Curves, Hedge Curves)
Pre-Trade Workflows
Datamart Reporting
Simulation Views
Pricing Templates
Generators / Indexes / Archiving Groups
EOD / GOM (basic knowledge)