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Banking Business Analyst

Auto-translated from French · original: Business Analyst Bancaire

5 day weekGreat Place to Work '25Onsite · Montpellier, France

Company Description

Meritis is a consulting firm specializing in digital transformation of organizations, founded in 2007 by Sébastien Videment.

Initially based in Paris, it has expanded to regions and now has a presence in the largest cities in France: Sophia-Antipolis, Montpellier, Nantes, Bordeaux, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Lille and even in Lisbon, Portugal since 2023.

Our experts support clients from various sectors in all their digital transformation needs across numerous areas of expertise: Finance, Software Engineering, Cloud & Infrastructure, Data, Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity.

With its values of rigor, humility, kindness and proximity, the firm of +900 employees, awarded 5 times in the Great Place To Work® rankings, is experiencing very strong growth and aims to reach €100M in revenue in 2024 and surpass the symbolic milestone of 1000 employees.

We are committed to being close to our employees and supporting them in a personalized manner regardless of their role in the company. Certified Great Place To Work since 2013, our conception of workplace well-being goes far beyond a simple label, our employees speak about it best: https://www.glassdoor.fr/Avis/Meritis-Avis-E1163008.htm

Job Description

As part of strategic projects within a banking institution, we are looking for an experienced Technical Business Analyst to support business teams in defining, analyzing and implementing their functional requirements.

As a true interface between business and IT teams, you will contribute to project success by ensuring proper understanding of challenges, quality of specifications and consistency of deployed solutions.

  • Gather, analyze and challenge business requirements from various stakeholders.
  • Write functional specifications, user stories and scoping documents.
  • Translate business needs into functional requirements for development teams.
  • Lead working sessions and follow-up meetings with business and IT teams.
  • Participate in process modeling and user journey mapping.
  • Ensure functional monitoring of developments and respond to technical team requests.
  • Develop and execute functional testing strategies.
  • Write test cases and coordinate business validation phases.
  • Analyze, qualify and track anomalies until resolution.
  • Support users during deployment and change management phases.
  • Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous improvement of project practices.
  • Perform data analysis and functional controls via SQL queries.
  • Participate in functional and technical reviews to secure developments and deliveries.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience as a Business Analyst, ideally in the banking sector or other demanding sectors.
  • Experience in writing functional specifications and requirements management.
  • Good technical knowledge and ability to bridge business and technical teams and communicate with technical teams.
  • Knowledge of application development and understanding of IT architectures, as well as good understanding of data flows and inter-application exchanges.
  • Experience in code reading, code review or technical analysis appreciated.
  • Good command of SQL and ability to perform data analysis and control queries.
  • Experience in functional testing, test management and anomaly tracking.
  • Mastery of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
  • Mastery of tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps or equivalents.
  • Bachelor's degree level (Bac+5) or equivalent.
  • Fluent English.

Additional Information

  • Customized career paths (career development, tailored training, mentoring…);
  • Choice of your assignment and personalized support throughout your career;
  • Evolve in an environment where learning is encouraged: certification training, e-learning, meetups, coding competitions, career development paths etc;
  • Be part of expert communities that share their knowledge and experience within our centers of excellence;
  • A friendly environment with many festive events (annual evening, seminars & team building, lunches and after-work gatherings…);

Your differences are our strengths. This is why Meritis is committed to diversity and non-discrimination. All our positions are accessible to people with disabilities. If you have a question or believe you are a victim or witness of discrimination, you can contact [email protected].