IT Business Analyst for Credit Risk Tribe (VORTEX system)

At ING, we believe it’s your ideas, not your age that matter. As part of our team, you’ll work in a dynamic, international environment where you learn at a fast pace and be hands-on from the start.

COO Risk sits right at the heart of the Bank’s complexity. We translate our rather complex banking business exposures into impact on risk weighted assets and provisions in line with the constantly changing business desires and the latest regulatory requirements. We are an integral part of the Credit Risk Modelling organization where we manage our processes from credit risk modeling approach definition all the way up to post production monitoring. We hereby offer a unique opportunity to enter one of Europe’s most appealing Banks at a key position that enables you to contribute, collaborate and grow!

In a nutshell, it is all about collaboration and understanding the end to end complexity of the Bank in particular it’s products and related credit risk exposures. If you have a natural drive to collaborate and a sense of urgency to conclude and deliver we would be very keen to get in touch!           

Role and responsibilities

We are looking for a professional looking for complexity and keen to construct, change and implement new requirements and streamlining existing processes. Your focus area would be Credit Risk Data Ingestion, Modeling or Reporting. Topics that are on top of the agenda are, for example: identification, design and implementation of ESG requirements, support of credit risk model implementation, Basel IV, maintaining the DQ framework within Vortex.

Understanding of the bigger picture and collaboration across functions and business lines is key. A natural interest in optimizing processes, looking for solutions and risk modelling is required to be able to coordinate effectively in between the teams. As a Business Analyst you will actively work with the colleagues in your squad to deliver upon the roadmap of your squad. You get energy from using your analytical skills to bring complete solutions for the requested change and get these developed by our Tech colleagues. Examples of potential activities:

• You lead business analyst activities;
• You play an active role in building a planning, solving impediments together with the teams involved;
• You coordinate and review test results coming from new implementation of credit risk models on our platform;
• You work together with all sources delivering data into Vortex, ING’s central credit risk data warehouse and make data available for further functions such as Ingestion, Risk Engine and Regulatory Reporting;
• You work closely together with various departments within the processing chain (Data Ingestion, Modelling, Reporting, Finance, Data Management etc);
• You act as a linking pin between the stakeholders and the implementation team/domains;
• You work on strategic topics, like new regulatory requirements / extension of our data capability in Vortex;
• You have the ability to apply an end-to-end view on implementations and tracking their dependencies;
• You build the bridge between business and IT.

How to succeed

• Followed a Master degree with a focus on Finance/Risk/engineering and/or Business;
• Knowledge and affinity with Credit Risk is a pré;
• You have technical analysis capabilities with SQL and Excel (Unix helps);
• Experience in project management and coordination;
• Affinity and experience with technology and the latest developments as you will closely work together with IT;
• Taking fact based decisions and being persuasive also with resistance;
• Find new and simple solutions for complex problems and matters;
• Team player but also capable of working independently;
• Good communication skills in oral and written English.