About the Role
We are currently looking for a Business Analyst to join the Credit & Risk Excellence team for our operations in Qatar. This role involves supporting credit transformation, risk management, and policy enhancement initiatives within the banking sector. The successful candidate will play a crucial part in coordinating activities across various stakeholders to ensure effective governance and process improvement in credit risk management.
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Responsibilities
- Support credit transformation initiatives, including risk management and policy enhancement.
- Conduct portfolio analytics, credit risk reporting, and RAROC-related analysis to inform decision-making.
- Coordinate activities across Business, Credit, Risk, Finance, Technology, Operations, and country stakeholders to facilitate cooperation.
- Execute process mapping, requirements gathering, procedure documentation, and offer implementation support.
- Prepare and present detailed reports, functional specifications, process flows, and dashboards to stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university, preferably in Banking, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Risk Management, Mathematics, Statistics, Information Technology, or similar fields.
- Relevant professional qualifications or certifications in credit risk, banking, finance, data analytics, business analysis, process improvement, or project management are preferred.
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant banking experience, ideally within a highly rated international bank, with experience in Credit Risk, Corporate Banking, Wholesale Banking, Risk Analytics, Credit Governance, or Business Analysis.
- Experience in supporting credit transformation, risk management, and governance initiatives is a must.
- Preferred experience in portfolio analytics, credit risk reporting, management information, or RAROC-related analysis.
- Experience in process mapping, requirements gathering, testing, and implementation support is essential.
Required Special Skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Arabic, including report writing.
- Strong interpersonal, facilitation, stakeholder coordination, and presentation skills.
- Sound understanding of relevant banking laws, regulations, credit risk principles, and governance practices.
- Good knowledge of wholesale and corporate banking portfolios, products, credit processes, and approval structures.
- Working knowledge of RAROC, risk-adjusted performance metrics, profitability analysis, capital consumption, and portfolio analytics.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of interpreting credit, financial, portfolio, and risk data.
- Proficient in process mapping, business-requirements gathering, and policy documentation.
- Ability to prepare clear business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, procedure documents, dashboards, and management reports.
- Strong attention to detail, ensuring accuracy, consistency, traceability, and version control.
Joining Timeline
- Candidates must be available to join within 2 weeks (maximum 1 month).
