My client is a global financial institution currently seeking a highly experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a strategic Non-Financial Risk transformation initiative. In this role, you will lead requirements analysis and data-driven insights across risk, technology, and business teams, helping to strengthen risk prevention capabilities and enhance control frameworks.
This is a high-impact opportunity to work at the intersection of risk, data, and technology within a complex financial services environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end requirements gathering, ensuring alignment with project objectives and business outcomes
- Analyze business processes, systems, and data to identify opportunities for improvement, automation, and control enhancement
- Translate requirements into functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Define data requirements and support seamless ingestion from multiple sources into a centralized repository
- Assess and improve data ingestion processes in partnership with technology teams, ensuring robustness and scalability
- Ensure data quality, integrity, lineage, and security standards are upheld
- Collaborate with Data Science and Analytics teams to analyze complex datasets and identify patterns, trends, and anomalies related to NFR
- Support the development of predictive models and algorithms to assess and mitigate non-financial risks
- Define use cases and scope for machine learning applications within NFR management
- Translate analytical outputs into actionable recommendations and process improvements
- Review existing NFR controls, identify gaps, and drive enhancements with relevant stakeholders
- Monitor control effectiveness and provide continuous improvement insights
- Partner with Risk, Technology, Data & Analytics, and Business teams to ensure alignment and effective delivery
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field (advanced degree preferred)
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst within financial services; consulting and/or risk management experience is advantageous
- Strong understanding of Non-Financial Risk management, particularly within wholesale banking
- Proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., SQL, Python, Tableau)
- Strong analytical thinking with the ability to interpret complex datasets and translate insights into business actions
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences
- Detail-oriented with a strong focus on accuracy and quality
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in cross-functional environments
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements and industry best practices in NFR is highly desirable