Business Analyst

You will part of a dynamic regional feature team supporting the local regulatory reporting functions in the bank, owned by Finance.  Key stakeholders you will be interacting with include Finance, Operations, and other IT feature teams.   All on a local, regional, and global level.

As a business analyst / project manager, your major responsibilities will include, but not limited to

• Business and impact analysis for the local regulatory reporting functional domain, and some light development in our regional reporting solution, AxiomSL
• Collect, analyze, and prepare user requirements. Conduct gap analysis, and provide detailed functional specifications and align these with all our stakeholders
• Project manage / stream lead initiatives that impact our functional domain
• Monitor & provide reporting to highlight project progress and risks to management and projects governance
• Coordinate and handle preliminary user acceptance tests and effectively communicate findings to users for their final validation
• Connect the dot between multiple stakeholders, locations, impacts and drive the change to be delivered with agreed timeframes and budget
• Identify operational inefficiencies within our domain and provide ideas for resolution, be it based on IT solutions, processes changes, or both
• Coordinate actions with Regional and Global teams to leverage on other entities’ knowledge/experience and to ensure global process consistency
• Enforce the spirit of agile and continuous delivery in our value driven deliverables

• Business analysis skills: Strong analytical mindset, attention to details, critical thinking, solution oriented
• Project management skills: Ability to see the global picture and think strategically, identify dependencies and risk, stakeholder management & communication, ability to structure ideas into concrete actions, familiar with the agile methodology to change
• Comfortable with analyzing an abundance of data to resolve problems beyond the surface and potentially identify trends
• Soft skills: Adaptable, organized, clear communications, interpersonal, independent yet team oriented, change mindset
• Experience in the investment banking industry on wide range of domain with a focus on regulatory reporting and finance
• Extensive years of experience in banking industry
• Excellent academic record including a degree in Engineering or Accounting and Finance
• Previous experience with regulatory reporting solutions is a huge plus, particularly AxiomSL

Behavioral Skills

• Responsibility - Accountability: I make decisions in my scope of responsibilities
• Client - Client  focus: I put long term relationship with our clients at the center of my actions, whatever my position
• Team Spirit - Open mindset: I listen and share my views and my expertise in an open mode
• Innovation - Simplification: I make things & ideas simple
• Commitment - Sustainability: I strive to develop my skills and knowledge
• Commitment - Inspiration: I support the vision and the strategy 

Our Culture:

At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market changes. Societe Generale is committed to strengthening bonds with colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live, because relationships are at the heart of how we operate.   Please visit our APAC career website: https://www.societegenerale.asia/en/careers/building-your-career-with/ for more information.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I):

Our mission: Recruit, develop, advance, and retain a diverse workforce that is united in our efforts to enhance our competitive position and deliver innovative solutions to our clients.

Our vision:

• Engaged workforce that is demographically diverse in a way that reflects the communities in which we operate
• Inclusive culture and workplace that recognizes employees' unique needs and utilizes their diverse talents
• Engage our community and marketplace, and position the organization to meet the needs of all its clients

Check out our DE&I initiatives: https://www.societegenerale.asia/en/careers/diversity-equity-inclusion-dei/

Department Description

The GCOO/CFT (Corporate Functions Technology) department leads IT transformations and provides IT solutions to Finance.  The team is a regional team with 9 members based in Hong Kong and Bangalore, covering the Asia Pacific region (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, India, and Australia).

The open position is within the RRR (Regulatory & Risk Reporting) sub-department and will be supporting the local regulatory reporting domain.