Business Analyst - FATCA

About First Derivative

First Derivative, an EPAM Company, is driven by people, data, and technology, unlocking the value of insight, hindsight, and foresight to drive organizations forward. Counting many of the world's leading investment banks as clients, we help our clients navigate the data-driven, digital revolution that is transforming the financial services sector. Our global teams span across 15 offices serving clients across EMEA, North America and APAC.

As an EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) company, a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services, we deliver advanced financial services solutions by empowering operational insights, driving innovation, and enabling more effective risk management in an increasingly data-centric world. EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) is recognised as a leader in software product development by independent research agencies. Headquartered in the United States, EPAM employs IT professionals and serves clients worldwide utilizing its award-winning Central and Eastern European global delivery platform and its locations in 19 countries across 4 continents. In 2013, EPAM was ranked by Forbes as #6 among America's 25 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies and #2 on the list of America's Best Small Companies: 20 Fast-Growing Tech Stars

Together with EPAM, we combine deep industry expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients stay ahead in a rapidly evolving financial landscape, offering comprehensive solutions that drive business transformation and sustainable growth.

We are hiring a Business Analyst to join our team in London on a full-time basis. The initial project you will be working on requires office attendance 5 days per week.

Key Responsibilities:

- Ideally direct experience of FATCA, Common Reporting Standard and/or VAT transformation projects.

- Failing that experience of other regulatory reporting/tax projects would be critical.

- An ability to map existing processes and data sources end to end

- Ability to understand requirements based on regulatory rules/guidance.

- An Ability to work with data from a variety of sources.

Experience of project to enhance data quality/governance Tasks as a Business Analyst will include:

- Performing requirements gathering and compiling formal Business Requirements and Functional Specification documents.

Covering all aspects of Business Analyst engagement throughout the Project Development lifecycle including but not limited to:

- Formulating and presenting proposed solutions to the business users. This may incorporate illustrative calculations using production data.

- Formulating testing approaches and compiling test plans and test cases.

- Performing system/integration testing and supporting business users with user acceptance testing.

- Compiling and presenting test results.

- Completing project/work-stream status reports.

- Escalating issues/risks to project/line management.

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