Business Analyst (Kimball Modeler)

Our question

• Do you want to be part of the development of the newest solutions to enable data driven reporting & analysis?
• Do you live up to the challenge of bringing our target solutions to a higher level?
• And do your eyes sparkle with the ideas of structuring and combining data?
• Are you the person that thinks outside the box, and creates new solutions for the challenges of the future?
• And are you the person that can be the missing link in our team?

Then we are looking for you!

Your work environment

Information Management, which is part of Finance within Domestic Bank Netherlands (DBNL), is looking for a strong Business Analyst to enable the delivery of valuable and reliable financial information and data of high quality to fulfil ING’s reporting obligations and to support decision making both for Financial Accounting and Reporting and Finance Business Advice (management reporting and providing insight customer profitability).

The team continuously adapts to changes in the banking business, its products, processes, and IT infrastructure, to ensure proper reflection in the accounts and reports. Together with the end users, the team is responsible to ensure we continuously comply with the changing regulatory reporting and data requirements. Changes are delivered in accordance with the Finance strategy, regulatory and Finance Business Advice requirements, and business changes.

Within a challenging environment, full of deadlines and challenging demands we give the opportunity to experiment, learn and adapt to bring the best possible future proof solutions to the department. But with the mindset that our purpose is to bring value to our stakeholders.

This vacancy is in a team of 24 people. It is a mixed group in terms of nationalities, ages, experience and gender, where we find it is important everyone can feel part of the team.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Business Analyst you will work in a (BusDevOps) squad with around 8-10 colleagues from different areas of expertise. The squad is responsible for onboarding of data including quality checks so implementing changes in and optimisation of data (warehouses) and related processes, applications and reports. This involves amongst others implementing new requests from our stakeholders in reports as well as integration of products and data flows. As a consumer of data we align with sourcing parties on requirements to get the complete and accurate data set in our systems for our stakeholders.

Together with the other squad members you work in a constructive way on implementing changes in the Finance data warehouses and applications.

Your main activities will be:

• Supporting the product owner and take the lead in finance related changes, ensuring that all requirements of all relevant stakeholders are acknowledged in the impact analysis and the proposed solution designs.
• Designing and developing new IT solutions that are future proof and easy to maintain, in close cooperation with the DevOps team members.
• Creating and enhancing conceptual and logical data models.
• Managing the full process of a change, from impact analysis, through requirements gathering in direct consultation with the users/stakeholders to solution design to coordination with the architects to user stories to testing to release and after care.
• Analyse finance business issues with the purpose of bringing complete solutions for the requested change.
• Provide the stakeholders with design alternatives and their impact to enable proper decision making.
• The team is responsible for the delivery of solutions with an iterative and incremental agile approach by cooperating in refining the roadmap for overall solution(s) with partial deliveries (releases, minimal viable products) and by adjusting requirements and designs based on measurable experiences and feedback.
• Writing user stories for the engineers and set-up acceptance criteria based on requirements and use case scenarios.
• Support the verification and validation of solutions by testing change deliverables and guiding users / clients in the acceptance of them.
• Help to translate solution design into training material- and work instructions for end-users.
• Make sure that lessons learnt and (best and next) practices from your assignments are made available to everyone.

Who are you?
You are a pro-active, dedicated and an independent thinker who takes responsibility and initiative to get the work done. A true data loving self-starter that can display pragmatism and proactivity with an ability to work in a demanding environment where communication is key.

Furthermore, you have:

• A mindset to grow yourself with the ability to challenge, learn, inspect and adapt;

• A Bachelor or Master degree; 
• At least 3 years experience in working in a BusDevOps team is required;
• Experience in Entity Relationship-diagrams and Kimball dimensional modelling is required;
• Experience in creating and enhancing conceptual and logical data models
• Knowledge of functional data warehouse architecture including the ability to adjust;
• You have working experience with big datasets and creating queries on databases; 
• A sense of detail and data analysis skills;
• Experience in working with SQL Developer is required;
• Knowledge of SAS EG is required;
• You can overarch business Finance impact;
• Experience in Banking Products is beneficial (including accounting of it); 
• Working experience with Agile and Lean is a plus.

Agile way of Working

We work according to ING Agile way of working principles. Important aspects in our way of working are showing flexibility, taking initiative and responsibility, continuous learning and improvement, cooperation and actively entering a positive dialogue with others.

We value mindset above experience, learning above knowledge and team spirit above specialist. But with this, we build a team that excels in its ability to bring new solutions to existing questions, but also to the questions of the future.

Rewards and benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions at https://www.ing.jobs/netherlands/Why-ING/benefits.htm

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

•  A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us. Apply today.

Questions?

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Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.