Vice President, Finance Business Data Analyst

We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst to support strategic data and transformation initiatives across Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Treasury and Regulatory Reporting functions.

In this role, you will serve as a key link between Finance and Treasury stakeholders, Regulatory Reporting, Risk, Data and Technology teams. You will translate complex business and regulatory needs into clear, implementable requirements and help drive solutions through analysis, validation, testing and implementation.

This is an opportunity to combine financial-services domain knowledge with hands-on analytical, data and Agile delivery capabilities in a large, complex and highly controlled environment. 

This role can be located in Pittsburgh or NYC.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: 

•  Partner with CFO, Treasury, Regulatory Reporting, Risk, Data and Technology stakeholders to understand business objectives and translate them into clearly defined requirements.

•  Lead requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation across complex Finance and Treasury initiatives.

•  Translate business and regulatory requirements into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional and data requirements.

•  Perform detailed impact analysis across business processes, data flows, systems, and downstream regulatory and management reporting.

•  Analyse financial data using SQL and other analytical tools to support requirements definition, investigation and validation.

•  Define and validate data requirements, including data elements, business rules, transformations, mappings, lineage and reconciliation requirements.

•  Identify data-quality issues and work with business and technology teams to perform root-cause analysis and define sustainable remediation.

•  Support solution design by confirming that proposed technology and data solutions meet the underlying business and control objectives.

•  Develop test scenarios and acceptance criteria, and coordinate business validation and user acceptance testing (UAT) through implementation.

•  Maintain end-to-end traceability from business requirements through solution delivery and testing.

•  Proactively identify dependencies, risks, assumptions and issues, and work with the appropriate stakeholders to drive them to resolution.

•  Communicate complex business and data concepts clearly to senior business stakeholders and technical teams.Finance and domain experience

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following: 

You will bring experience in one or more of the following areas:

•  CFO and Finance functions  • Financial products and the transaction lifecycle

•  Treasury and liquidity management • Regulatory reporting frameworks and controls

•  Regulatory and financial reporting    • Finance and risk data

•  Balance-sheet and liquidity management    • Data lineage, reconciliation and reporting controls

Advantageous experience: Working with regulatory reporting requirements relating to liquidity, capital, balance sheet or other prudential reporting frameworks.

Core capabilities

Business analysis

Strong capability in requirements elicitation, process analysis, functional decomposition, impact assessment, gap analysis, business rules, process mapping and requirements traceability.

Data and analytics

A strong analytical mindset and experience working with large, complex datasets. Hands-on SQL capability is strongly preferred, together with experience in data profiling, mapping, lineage, reconciliation and data-quality analysis.

Agile delivery

Demonstrated experience working within Agile delivery models, including:

•  Epics, features and user stories

•  Acceptance criteria

•  Backlog refinement and prioritisation

•  Sprint planning

•  Sprint reviews and demonstrations

•  User acceptance testing and release readiness

Preferred tools: Experience with Jira and Confluence.

What you’ll bring

Experience and qualifications

•  8+ years of relevant experience as a Business Analyst within banking, financial services or another complex financial environment.

•  Demonstrated experience delivering change across Finance, Treasury, Regulatory Reporting, Risk or Data functions.

•  The ability to independently lead analysis from initial problem definition through requirements, delivery and implementation.

•  A bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Technology, Data or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Leadership behaviours

•  Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to structure ambiguous and complex problems.

•  Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.

•  Strong stakeholder-management skills and the confidence to challenge assumptions and requirements constructively.

•  The ability to work effectively across business, data and technology teams.

•  A high degree of ownership, attention to detail and focus on delivery outcomes.

•  The ability to manage competing priorities and dependencies within a large-scale Agile delivery environment.

What success looks like

You will understand the financial objective, interrogate the underlying data, translate the requirement for Technology, and drive the change through to a controlled and measurable business outcome.