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Senior Business Analyst in Counterparty Credit Risk

Job Overview:

Our client, one of biggest Japanese security companies, is currently seeking a Senior Business Analyst. We DENTSU SOKEN USA are keen to contribute to this position and achieve their goal together. We are hoping to welcome a candidate who can share our ambition and challenge ourselves to create a brighter future.

This role is based in New York, US. Visa/Work Permit could be offered to the eligible candidate.

Responsibilities:

Business Analysis & Exposure Management Application Support

  • Partner with EM, CRR, RA, Front Office, and technology stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business, functional, and technical requirements for EM applications, including EPE/PFE calculations, limit monitoring, what-if pre-trade intraday analysis, and exposure reporting.

  • Translate business needs into clear process flows, user stories, functional specifications, data mapping documents, and test scenarios to support platform enhancements and production incident resolution.

  • Act as a key liaison between business users and technology teams to ensure CCR priorities are accurately understood, implemented, and supported.
    Incident, Problem & Change Management

  • Serve as a point of contact for high‑severity production incidents, particularly those impacting exposure reporting, limit breaches, what-if intraday analysis or regulatory deliverables.

  • Drive hands-on root cause analysis (RCA) for impactful incidents such as calculation breaks, data validation/reconciliation issues, ensuring recurring issues are eliminated through permanent fixes rather than short‑term workarounds.

  • Enforce robust change and release governance aligned with CAB, DevOps, CI/CD, risk, audit, and control standards in the client.

Production Operations & Continuous Improvement

  • Analyze current-state CCR workflows, incident patterns, data reconciliations, and operational processes to identify opportunities for process simplification, control enhancement, and operational improvement.

  • Support the definition and tracking of key operational and business metrics related to application performance, data quality, incident trends, and turnaround times.

  • Drive documentation and standardization of business processes, support procedures, and control points across the EM application stack.
    Platform Reliability, Automation & Resilience

  • Identify opportunities for automation and self‑healing processes for batch monitoring, data validation, reconciliations, and recovery processes for production as well as lower testing environments.

  • Partner with Engineering and Infrastructure teams to improve observability, alerting, capacity planning, and resilience of EM applications.

  • Assist in ensuring DR/BCP readiness for EM‑critical systems, including regular/annual testing and documented recovery procedures.

Stakeholder Coordination & Global Delivery Support

  • Work with onshore and offshore technology and support teams to clarify requirements, prioritize issues, and ensure smooth execution of BA deliverables across BAU projects and production support initiatives.

  • Facilitate knowledge transfer, documentation quality, and shared understanding of CCR business processes, data flows, and system behavior across distributed teams.

  • Help define business context, escalation needs, and operational expectations to support effective 24x7 coverage and service continuity.

Regulatory, Audit & Risk Controls

  • Ensure EM applications meet regulatory, audit, security, and internal risk management requirements.

  • Lead IT Operations engagement for internal audits, regulatory exams, and model governance reviews, demonstrating control maturity.

  • Maintain strong IT control frameworks (access, change, data integrity) across IT and business teams

Required Qualifications:

Experience

  • 12+ years of experience as a Technical Business Analyst or System Business Analyst within financial services technology.

  • Strong experience supporting risk, exposure management, or related front-office / risk technology applications.

  • Demonstrated experience working across business stakeholders, development teams, QA, and production support teams in a regulated environment.

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, Mathematics, or a related discipline.

Technical & Domain Expertise

  • Strong understanding of Counterparty Credit Risk and Exposure Management concepts, including derivative trade lifecycle, market data, PFE, EPE, collateral and margin processes, limits, stress testing, and what-if analysis.

  • Experience working with batch and intraday risk platforms, data flows, reconciliations, and reporting processes in a CCR or risk technology environment.

  • Ability to work with technical teams on SQL, data analysis, interface mapping, ETL workflows, and downstream/upstream system dependencies.

  • Experience creating Business Requirements Documents (BRD), functional specifications, process flows, test cases, and data mapping artifacts.

  • Familiarity with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, SQL, ServiceNow, and reporting or analytics tools used to support requirements, incidents, and delivery tracking.

  • Understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, testing lifecycle, and change management processes.

Leadership & Soft Skills

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex business and technical issues into actionable requirements.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with business users, risk managers, developers, QA teams, and senior technology stakeholders.

  • Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.

  • Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to work both independently and collaboratively across distributed teams.

  • Ability to facilitate discussions, resolve ambiguity, and build alignment across business and technology stakeholders.

  • Collaborative team player with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.

Work Style:

This role is based in New York, requiring the successful candidate to be on-site (NY office) a couple of times a week.

Contract:

Full Time Employee or C2C(negotiable)

Compensation:

The expected salary ranges from $120,000 - $150,000, with the potential to exceed the maximum for exceptional candidate skills and experience. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications and licenses obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered.