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About the Role

The Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) Risk Management and Analytics (ITSRA) unit is seeking an experienced Business Analyst with extensive experience in Capital Markets domains, focusing on Issuances, Valuation, Settlement, and Accounting, as well as knowledge of external ratings of securities and financial counterparts. This role is crucial for safeguarding the WBG's AAA rating and reputation by supporting key risk functions.

Responsibilities

Understand business needs related to counterparty credit risk management, limits management, and compliance functions.
Minimize gaps, redundancies, rework, and duplication of effort by coordinating new requirements with Business Sponsors and project governance bodies.
Ensure product-based solutions are executed under ITS’s strategic guidelines.
Gain an in-depth understanding of the business, its underlying processes, and data, and provide technical leadership to the application support team post-product launch.
Document business requirements in bank standard tools/templates, ensuring quality standards are met.
Analyze requirements and various scenarios associated with each requirement.
Prepare test cases, perform systems integration testing, document test results, conduct regression testing, and assist users with User Acceptance testing.
Act as Business Analyst for Capital Markets line of business within Treasury, focusing on counterparty credit risk management, limits management, compliance, valuations of issuances/buybacks/derivatives, and trade life cycle.
Build stakeholder consensus and ensure alignment on proposed solutions.
Develop business cases, requirements, use cases, test plans, test strategies, test cases, and operational procedures and plans.
Coordinate with fiduciary reviewers like Enterprise Architects and OIS, providing information and supporting security testing.
Participate in the procurement of COTS solutions, including preparing RFPs, cost estimates, and benefits realization summaries.
Effectively prioritize requirements and maintain scope.
Document business processes and workflows.
Collaborate with Project Managers, Tech Leads, Solution Architects, and Developers to determine feasibility of solutions and meet project milestones.
Leverage rapid prototyping to present as-is/to-be processes/workflows and rough designs.
Provide overall support for the successful design, testing, and implementation of applications.
Support the development of training materials and conduct training.
Maintain a comprehensive chronological trail of requirements and agreements, and contribute to the project change control process.
Document and manage issues and actions.
Participate in the evaluation of new products or initiatives to determine technology support required.
Evaluate applications and IT environments, and analyze gaps between current and desired states.
Propose recommendations based on industry best practices.
Coordinate with vendors and oversee their deliverables, including reviewing proposed solutions and delivered code.
Train business users on applications.
Uphold established processes and quality standards with respect to Business Analysis.
Troubleshoot systems in a post-production environment and provide solutions to business and technical teams.

Requirements

Requires a Master’s degree with 5 years of experience or a Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in Treasury/capital markets domain, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Solid understanding of Counterparty Credit Risk function.
Practical working experience in Treasury and Capital Markets domain.
Working knowledge of Credit limits management and compliance function.
Understanding of Trade workflow and front and back office business processes.
Substantial experience in the Risk Management domain within a globally distributed enterprise.
Demonstrated experience working as a Business Analyst, ideally in complex financial or technical environments.
Advanced proficiency in MS Excel and SQL.
Knowledge of Capital Markets trading systems (such as Murex or Summit).
Ability to collaborate effectively across teams, disciplines, cultures, and institutional boundaries.
Ability to responsibly leverage digital and AI-enabled tools to enhance productivity, learning, and decision-making.
Experience working in fragile, conflict-affected, and violent (FCV) contexts is encouraged.
Demonstrated commitment to inclusion and respect for diversity.
Experience developing or mentoring staff to support career development and succession planning.
Highest standards of personal and professional integrity.
Ability to build and sustain strong collegial working relationships.
Comfortable engaging others assertively, responsibly, and supportively.
Strong conceptual, analytical, and judgment skills.
Excellent personal organization skills, with a demonstrated ability to drive work to closure.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement
Product backlog management
Data driven decision making
Product roadmaps
Product requirements analysis
Product development lifecycle
Market research
Value proposition development
Sprint planning
Business acumen
Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban)
Influencing others
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Strategic communication
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Present agreed concepts clearly to senior audiences
Ensure business architecture definitions are well articulated, documented, and formally signed off
Clearly identify, communicate, and mitigate assumptions and dependencies
Strong teamwork, negotiation, and consensus building skills
Ability to work effectively in a multinational, multicultural environment
MS Excel
SQL
Capital Markets trading systems (such as Murex or Summit)
CFA/FRM candidate or charterholder
SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager

Location

Washington, DC, United States

Work Type

Open-Ended Staff (OPEN-OP)
Local Recruitment

Experience Level

Experienced professional
5 years of experience (Master's degree)
7 years of experience (Bachelor's degree)

Education Level

Master's degree
Bachelor's Degree

Benefits

Retirement plan
Medical insurance
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Paid leave
Parental leave
Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities

About the Company

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges.
The Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) Vice Presidential Unit (VPU) enables the World Bank Group to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150+ locations.
The ITS Risk Management and Analytics (ITSRA) unit enables key WBG Risk functions managed by the Risk vice-presidencies and their corporate partners such as measure and monitor credit risk, market risk, operational risk, and liquidity risk to safeguard WBG institutions’ AAA rating and reputation.
The unit also engages with Treasury, WFA, and DFI to ensure proper capture, valuation, and support analytics around financial instruments and counterparties, and the risks they carry.

Equal Opportunity

We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.