Senior IT Business Analyst

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior IT Business Analyst to join the FINCO team. Within the Subledger Input Preparation Product Area of Finance InfoTech, the expert team holds operational responsibility for the timely processing and accurate provisioning of accounting input data of structured risk solution business for all current and future valuations (e.g. IFRS 17/9, US STAT, etc).

About the Role

As a Senior IT Business Analyst, you work closely with software engineers to enhance and maintain the system in respect of regulatory requirements, user specific customizations, testing, bug fixing and operations. This includes communication with an international user community as well as wide range of other IT colleagues across the globe.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive resolution of complex issues during a roll-out of the system
• Monitor and maintain interfaces, implement data quality checks
• Analyze errors and incident, propose solutions and corrections
• Support operations and define semi-automated validations
• Perform and coordinate data clean ups and migrations
• Gather inputs for changes from users and analyze dependencies on other teams
• Translate business requirements to developers including testing
• Build up and share knowledge about applications and processes

About the Team

The FINCO Operations Team is a small team that is based in Zurich and Bratislava. . We are responsible for a JAVA based system and related micro-services communicating with each other to ultimately feed the SAP and other sub-ledgers with inputs for financial closing.

About You

 Key skills and Experience

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Basic understanding of accounting principals
• Experience with project management methodologies and tools.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under pressure, prioritize and re-prioritize around changing organizational objectives and timelines.
• Team player with strong interpersonal skills; able to work independently as well as within a global team.

Essentials

• University degree in financial, actuarial or business field (or comparable education/degree)
• Minimum three years of software design/maintenance experience
• Basic knowledge of accounting and financial reporting, preferably in IFRS17/9/15 or other local STATs
• Good knowledge of MS Office; SQL is an advantage

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Agile ways of working (SCRUM/Kanban)
• Understanding of P&C reinsurance business

For Slovakia the base salary range for this position is between [EUR 2,100] and [EUR 3,400] per month (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:

•        the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,

•        the applicant’s own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialization, skills and experience.

In the situation where you significantly exceed the requirements, the offered salary may be above the advertised range.

In addition to your base salary, you may be eligible for additional rewards and benefits including an attractive performance-based bonus.

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