Risk Reporting Business Analyst

£525 per day, inside IR35

Role Overview

Business Analyst role focused on enhancing risk reporting processes within a large investment bank. The role supports effective migration and regulatory compliance for risk reporting, with a particular focus on BCBS 239.

Main Responsibilities

• Gather and document reporting requirements, including Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Conduct current-state and target-state process mapping.
• Perform data mapping and reconciliation across source systems, risk engines, and reporting platforms.
• Analyse data using SQL and use Excel and Power BI/Tableau for reporting.
• Define data-quality controls and resolve reporting discrepancies.
• Support risk-reporting migrations through gap analysis, mapping, and parallel runs.
• Plan and execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test scenarios and defect management.
• Manage stakeholders across Risk, Finance, Technology, Data, and regulatory-reporting teams.
• Translate complex risk concepts into clear technical specifications.
• Maintain governance, documentation, and audit trails.
• Collaborate with global teams and manage system and workstream dependencies.
• Apply BCBS 239 knowledge where applicable.

Key Requirements

• Strong core Business Analyst skills.
• Banking risk experience, preferably within a large investment bank.
• Experience with risk-reporting migrations.
• Knowledge of credit, market, liquidity, and operational risk.
• Understanding of regulatory reporting and governance requirements.
• Strong data-analysis skills, including SQL.
• Experience defining data-quality controls.
• Experience planning and executing UAT.
• Strong stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Ability to document and translate technical specifications.
• Knowledge of Power BI/Tableau.
• Understanding of reporting calculations, metrics, thresholds, and aggregation logic.
• Familiarity with BCBS 239.