What does this job entail?
As a Senior Business Analyst in our team, you play a key role in bridging IT experts and business stakeholders from the Treasury and Risk departments. Since we are organized according to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), you work closely with them in the same multidisciplinary team. By working in sprints, we are able to develop, evaluate, and adjust solutions faster and with higher quality—always in consultation with the business, ensuring the outcome is fully aligned with their needs.
You can expect a stimulating, international environment where you contribute with sharp functional analyses and a high-level understanding of business cases, changes, and scenarios. In business and strategic discussions, you take on the role of challenger.
What do we expect from you?
- You coordinate and document the end-to-end data inflow for reporting.
- You carry out functional analyses for applications within Liquidity, Asset & Liability Management (ALM) and RiskPro ALM.
- You discuss your analyses with internal clients and technical experts, and challenge business stakeholders when needed.
- You bridge business and IT by making sure business requirements are met within the existing architecture and standards.
- You turn your analyses into functional test cases, execute them, and take responsibility for testing and debugging to ensure high-quality delivery.
- You guide business stakeholders through User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and explain the outcomes.
- You handle RiskPro configurations.
Your key strengths?
- You hold a Master’s degree in Economics or Business Administration and have at least 5 years of experience with business and IT projects in the field of Liquidity or ALM.
- You are familiar with data warehouse environments and are able to write your own SQL queries. You also bring knowledge / understanding of:
- RiskPro (ALM, Liquidity, FTP);
- Financial instruments and markets;
- The Treasury & Risk functions;
- Asset & Liability Management, Behavioral Modelling, Dynamic Simulations, Funds Transfer Pricing, Hedge Accounting, Solvency II;
- The principles of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- Colleagues know you as a sharp analytical mind who is able to deliver cost-efficient solutions. Your approach: pragmatic, results-oriented, and creative.
- You are eager to quickly understand our IT, data, and reporting processes, and to continuously build your knowledge thereafter. Adapting to changing circumstances comes naturally to you.
- You communicate fluently in Dutch and English, both spoken and written, and you express your ideas in a clear, structured, and convincing way.
What can we offer you?
- You’re assured of an excellent onboarding and a pleasant, collegial work atmosphere. We collaborate to achieve results as a team.
- Across your entire career at KBC, we encourage you to grow as a person and as a professional. You can follow training courses in which you further sharpen your hard and soft skills.
- Your workplace in Ghent or Brussels is easily accessible by public transport. You’re also welcome to partly work from home or from one of our other offices.
- Flexible work hours help you to balance your work and your private life.
- We offer you a permanent contract and a competitive salary, supplemented by extra-legal benefits. Sounds familiar? Of course. It’s what you read in every job description. At KBC, we make a difference with our extended flex package. It’s too extensive to go into details here. However, we will happily discuss the various benefits—large and small—at your interview.
Can you help us make the difference?
"Working as a functional analyst in Talta @ Rainbow is fascinating: you act as the bridge between the group functions and IT, translating data streams into valuable reporting insights.Thanks to your input, the group functions receive clear and accurate reports that support internal decision-making and external reporting to entities such as the ECB."
Pieter Verbeke
Respect and inclusion are core values at KBC. We believe that the individuality of our employees and the diversity of our teams are key to achieving great things. That’s why we recruit new employees based on talent and motivation, regardless of their background or story.
We work closely together to be the reference in the financial sector by innovating, greening and connecting. Interested in joining a ‘Top Employer’ and contributing to new ideas and solutions that help our customers and society move forward?
If this ticks all your boxes, apply now so we can get to know you. And if there are any specific things you’d like us to consider in your application, please let us know. We look forward to hearing from you soon!
