Lead Business Analyst

• Lead Business Analyst would be responsible for driving business analysis, requirements gathering, and process improvement initiatives for the Know Your Customer (KYC) and due diligence functions within BNP PARIBAS.
• This role would ensure that KYC processes are efficient, compliant, and aligned with regulatory standards, leveraging Agile methodologies, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), and automation testing strategies.
• This position will require to work in globally distributed organization.

• Lead the collection and documentation of business requirements for KYC, due diligence processes, Tax and Regulations
• Collaborate with stakeholders from Operations, Front office, Compliance or IT, conduct interviews/workshop to understand their needs and translate them into BRD and functional specifications.
• Develop deep understanding of business needs by data analysis, market trends and conduct gap analysis and process mapping to identify areas for improvement.
• Take ownership of feasibility studies, design solutions in line with requirements and architecture best practices, conduct demos, proposal development and represent in architectural committee
• Build delivery plan, define EPICs, break those down into user stories and write acceptance criteria using Gherkin or other tool.
• Act as the primary liaison between business users, IT teams, and external vendors.
• Ensure Agile principles and practices are adhered to within the project team

Lead automation and guide teams to align with shift left and shift right strategy by encouraging a mindset for automation first and reduce recursive manual efforts

• Work with QA teams to ensure comprehensive test coverage using automation tools to improve efficiency.
• Oversee User Acceptance Testing (UAT) processes to ensure solutions meet business requirements and quality standards.
• Manage the change process to minimize disruption and ensure successful adoption of new features.
• Define KPIs and used insights driven by KPI analysis to drive continuous improvement.
• Level-up of teams members on KYC functional skills, IT best practices and help junior or new joiner to grow

• Proven track-record as a Lead Business Analyst in designing and implementing complex systems with workflow and data flows between multiple modules.
• Strong analytical and process management skills to interpret & anticipate business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Be able to analyze complex data sets, to consider data governance, data lineage when building solutions in relation with workflows, data flow in information system.
• Good understanding of technical infrastructure (databases, web development etc.) and how it interconnects with other system for data sharing
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex processes into simplified manner for diverse audiences.
• Good knowledge of Automated Testing Tools e.g. Cucumber.
• Hands on experience of BDD tools e.g Gherkin and API definition tools e.g. Swagger
• Hands-on experience on SQL and PL/SQL
• Hands on experience in creating FSD, BRDs and those specific to APIs

• Experience in KYC Applications, specifically Fenergo application.
• Knowledge of BPMN tools e.g. Camunda