Business Analyst

Recruiter
BNP Paribas.
Location
India
Salary
Competitive salary
Posted
14 Apr 2021
Closes
22 Apr 2021
Ref
2000172154
Job role
Business analyst, CFO
About BNP Paribas Group:

BNP Paribas is a top-ranking bank in Europe with an international profile. It operates in 71 countries and has almost 199 000 employees. The Group ranks highly in its three core areas of activity: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail banking networks and financial services are grouped together under Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, centred on corporate and institutional clients. The Group helps all of its clients (retail, associations, businesses, SMEs, large corporates and institutional) to implement their projects by providing them with services in financing, investment, savings and protection. In its Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial Services activities, BNP Paribas enjoys leading positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and has a solid and fast-growing network in the Asia/Pacific region

About BNP Paribas India Solutions:

Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. India Solutions services three business lines: Corporate and Institutional Banking, Investment Solutions and Retail Banking for BNP Paribas across the Group. Driving innovation and growth, we are harnessing the potential of over 6000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.

About Businessline/Function :

Local Accounting Platform

LAP stands for Local Accounting platform. LAP is used in Americas and UK. Initially LAP was London Accounting platform. LAP is a general ledger system which is used by over 1000 users. Corporate Institutional Banking uses LAP. On daily basis LAP receives accounting business events from multiple source systems. These accounting business events are accounted as per the CIB accounting policy and general ledger is prepared by LAP

Job Title:

Business analyst/sr. business analyst

Date:

Department:

FRESH

Location:

Mumbai /Chennai

Business Line / Function:

ITG-FRESH

Reports to:

(Direct)

Team leader

Grade:

(if applicable)

(Functional)

Number of Direct Reports:

1

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

Business analyst role for Aladin application

ALADIN (Application for Local Analytics and Digital Invoicing) is a web based user interface providing a control framework around the invoice 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 invoice preparation and follow-up, the booking in the general ledger (GL) and the collection of payment.

ALADIN are to automate the intercompany invoicing 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

  • Analysing user requirements and business processes,
  • Liaising with users and internal counterparts from Finance, IT and Operations as required
  • Providing users with Subject Matter expertise for finance systems
  • Liaising with end-users 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


Direct Responsibilities

Production Support

  • 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
  • Proven organizational skills with excellent multi-tasking and prioritization skills
  • Good systems skills, good understanding of IT databases (although programming skills are not required)
  • Good documentation skills
  • Ability to work independently
  • 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


Specific Qualifications (if required)

Graduate/post graduate with 5-7 years of experience of working as BA /Senior BA in accounting systems

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills : (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Ability to synthetize / simplify

Critical thinking

Client focused

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 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

Education Level:

Master Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 5 years

Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)

Graduate/post graduate with 3-5 years of experience of working as BA /Senior BA in accounting systems

Primary Location: India
Job Type: Standard / Permanent
Job: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Education Level: Master Degree or equivalent (> 4 years)
Experience Level: At least 5 years
Schedule: Full-time
Reference: BNP019835

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