Counterparty credit risk BA

Varrlyn is a consulting firm which was founded in 2010 and is based in The Netherlands. We help financial institutions with system implementations and provide some serious application support, concentrating on the way they process transactions and deploy reporting applications.

Varrlyn has a proven track record: we have worked for financial institutions in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Paris, New York, Frankfurt, and Sydney. We help improve cost efficiency, simplify application architecture, optimize time to market, enhance straight-through processing, and ensure compliance with financial regulations. In other words: You do the deal, we’ll do the project.

Your role is:

• To understand the Customer’s day to day use cases and translate them into a template, which is as simple and intuitive as possible.
• To Translate and explain the customer needs “What” so that the IT engineers can determine the appropriate “How”.
• Host feature refinement workshops with the team and break features into stories (story-mapping).
• Prepare refinement of stories and write user stories
• Test the delivered stories.
• Take End to End ownership of business requests and delivering value to the end customers.
• Host knowledge sessions with the team.
• Communicate and align with the other domains contributing to the counterparty credit risk.
• Have a good end-to-end vision and manage complexity.
• Keep track of and analyze market and competition developments;

We are looking for a business analyst with 3+ years of work experience and a background in Counterparty Credit Risk Management and / or Financial markets.

• You love to make things happen.
• You can work independently and navigate through the stakeholders.  
• You can combine functional credit risk requirements and technical solutions into a proposal that can be agreed by multiple stakeholders.  
• You makes connections between customer requirements, corporate strategy and longer term vision;
• You have experience in test case development and test execution;
• You are able to clearly explain features or user stories during refinement session to the squad and to lead demo sessions to users and stakeholders;
• You understand and support the agile way of working;
• You look for challenges and encourages the squad and individuals to improve;
• You have a Master degree in Economics, Finance or similar;
• You have an excellent command of the English language, both written and verbal.

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.

Your work location is in the Netherlands.