Business Analyst

About Talan

Founded in France, Talan is today an international group that supports its clients in their Data & AI transformation, end-to-end, by combining management consulting and technological expertise.

With over 6,000 employees on 5 continents, we accelerate our clients' transformations through long-term partnerships, creating measurable and sustainable impact.

Our value proposition is based on a structured innovation ecosystem: 2,500 Data & AI experts, proprietary solutions built on advanced models, and a laboratory for applied research, experimental development, and innovation.

We have been translating technological innovation into competitive advantage for over 20 years in strategic sectors: banking and financial services, energy, transport and mobility, luxury and retail, and health.

Driven by its promise of Positive Innovation, Talan stands out as a benchmark player in responding to the growing complexity of economic, technological, and regulatory environments.

Talan is a responsible company, recognized by its employees and committed to diversity.

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About the Role

Our Finance Business Unit is a team of experts like you, who work across the entire front-to-back chain on consulting or Business Owner (MOA) missions.

To strengthen our specialized financial markets team, we are recruiting Business Analyst profiles who have a good understanding of business issues within Investment Banks, front-to-back processes, as well as the information system (Methodologies, regulations, software packages, processes, and IS) and who can interface between business and IT developers.

Responsibilities

• You will be involved, depending on your profile, not only in MOA (gathering needs, writing functional specifications, etc.) but also in challenging user needs, determining priorities and being proactive.
• You will also be involved in high value-added consulting missions such as analysis and mapping of processes, project support taking into account its multiple organizational and technical changes, and team upskilling.
• You will be responsible for integrating strategic decisions at the operational processes and/or information systems level.
• You will participate in implementation and adaptation projects of solutions, organization, initiation and updating of processes and integration of software packages.

Your Achievements:

• Preliminary studies and feasibility analyses.
• Scoping, writing expressions of need and banking validation.
• Assistance in choosing optimal solutions (both internal and external).
• Information system master plan, functional mapping and process formalization.
• Project planning and coordination.
• Change management and user support.

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Qualifications

• Master's degree in Finance or Information Technology.
• At least 5 years of experience within an investment bank or an asset manager.
• Good knowledge of capital markets activities:
  • Very good knowledge of vanilla and exotic financial instruments (FX, IRD, Credit Derivatives, Securitization, Commodities, etc.).
• Mastery of P&L calculation and monitoring processes, P&L explanation by Greeks, VAR...
• Mastery of the following technical environments is a plus: Power BI, VBA/EXCEL, SQL, ACCESS as well as the MS Office suite.
• Integrity, rigor, dynamism, you have already demonstrated your organizational and adaptation skills as well as a strong team spirit, flexibility, creativity and a sense of initiative will be your assets for success.