Business Analyst

The Functional Business Analyst plays a key role in bridging business needs, product vision, and delivery execution. Working closely with the Product Owner (PO), development teams, and architecture stakeholders, this role ensures that business requirements are well understood, properly scoped, functionally designed, and seamlessly integrated into the Information System (IS).

How you will contribute to the day-to-day activities of the team:

1. Business Requirements Analysis
•    Analyze, challenge, and refine business requirements based on priorities defined by the Product Owner.
•    Facilitate and lead workshops with business users to clarify, scope, and formalize requirements.
•    Assess the functional, technical, and organizational impacts of business requirements, and provide recommendations on options, risks, and cost implications.
•    Support the Product Owner in defining, initiating, and maintaining the product roadmap.
•    Assist the Product Owner and delivery team in decomposing requirements into MVPs and detailed user stories.
•    Translate business requirements into functional use cases and comprehensive specification documents.

2. Functional Design of the Product
•    Ensure a strong understanding and communication of the end-to-end business processes, in collaboration with the Product Owner.
•    Identify and assess existing solutions within or outside the business unit to avoid functional redundancy.
•    Anticipate and manage functional dependencies across teams working on the same platform or ecosystem.
•    Guide and inspire the team toward optimal functional solutions, facilitating functional discussions and decision-making.
•    Understand technical constraints and actively contribute to functional and technical design discussions.
•    Prepare and present functional design options to support Product Owner decisions, following consultation with the team.

3. Team Functional Support & Knowledge Sharing
•    Train and onboard new team members on the product’s functional scope and business domain.
•    Promote knowledge sharing and functional expertise across the team.
•    Support team members in resolving functional issues encountered during analysis, development, or delivery phases.

4. Production & IS Integration Support
•    Analyze the impact of product design on the Information System’s functional and technical architecture, in alignment with functional and technical architects.
•    Consider technical architecture constraints when defining and validating functional solutions.
•    Support production inquiries, incidents, and major events by contributing functional expertise.
•    Participate in root-cause analysis and resolution of functional issues within the Feature Team’s scope.
•    Act as a functional reference point for production support and operational stakeholders.
 

KEY COMPETENCIES & SKILLS
•    Strong expertise in business analysis, functional design, and requirements management
•    Excellent facilitation and communication skills, particularly in workshop settings
•    Ability to work closely with Product Owners, architects, and development teams
•    Strong analytical mindset with a pragmatic approach to problem-solving
•    Solid understanding of end-to-end business processes and IT systems integration
•    Experience working in agile environments (roadmaps, MVPs, user stories)
 

LANGUAGE: 

Ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is a requirement as the person in this position will need to collaborate regularly with colleagues and partners in the United States. 

Due to US Federal Securities law that may apply to this position, candidates who will apply for this position may be required to submit to an enhanced background screening, including the collection of their fingerprints by a third-party vendor selected by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA").

Societe Generale is committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience to all candidates. If you require any reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let our Recruiters know.

OUR CULTURE: 
At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market changes. Societe Generale is committed to strengthening bonds with colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live, because relationships are at the heart of how we operate. For more information about our Culture and Conduct initiatives, please visit this link (https://americas.societegenerale.com/en/careers/get-know-culture/)

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Our Diversity & Inclusion Vision:

• Engaged workforce that is demographically diverse in a way that reflects the communities in which we operate
• Inclusive culture and workplace that recognizes employees' unique needs and utilizes their diverse talents
• Engage our community and marketplace, and position the organization to meet the needs of all its clients

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