Business Analyst Trade Finance

If you are inspired by international businesses, by ambitious targets and by driving digital change, you should join our team as a Business Analyst!

As part of the growth ambitions of Transaction Banking (home to core banking products such as accounts, savings, payments and trade finance), you will realize future-proof, digital and cost-efficient Trade Finance customer & employee journeys.

We are looking to expand our team with a professional with 5-8 years of hands-on experience in business analysis. Experience in the field of Trade Finance is preferred.

Your responsibilities: Ensure a friction-free and safe customer experience by (re)developing products and digital user journeys. You are the link between various teams including the scrum delivery teams. Your jobs-to-be-done: Gather, structure and define as-is and new jobs-to-be done, use-cases and scenarios from a client or banks perspective and turn these into well-defined and clear user stories, functional and non-functional requirements, and business process models. Communicate clearly & build bridges between business and IT and ensure IT teams have clear requirements which can be further refined for delivery. Self-initiate conversations with multiple ABN AMRO departments to align and leverage new or existing capabilities within the bank. You have experience in testing new or modified functionality in collaboration with IT and business users.

Your outcomes: Help build up and embed the business analysis capability. Lead and steer by doing and setting an example. Documented status-quo from a functional perspective.

Come work in the Trade Finance value proposition block within the Transaction Services grid, which serves businesses ranging from Small & Medium Enterprises up to Corporate & Institutional Clients.

We do this by offering products that fall under the umbrella term Trade Finance: Letters of Credit, Guarantees, and Documentary Collections. Banks and companies use these products to enable and facilitate international trade transactions. Our products help customers to secure i) delivery of goods/services, ii) payment iii) an optimized working capital position. Due to the nature of the Trade Finance products, there is a relation to many aspects of banking in general, amongst other payments, financing and compliance.

Collaborate with a diverse and dynamic team of 7 colleagues (including you) as well as several IT delivery teams and other stakeholders from Sales, Operations and other grids. Specifically, the Value Proposition block is responsible for product management of the Trade Finance franchise. We have reimagined how our digital offering should look like and are on the verge of executing the changes required to progress towards our vision.

We have a hybrid way of working, with a minimum of two office days in Rotterdam and flexibility to work remote or in the office on the other days. Be part of a tight team that likes to go out on lunch together, do out-of-office activities, celebrate successes and take care of each other.

Check your profile:

• You have a minimum of 5-8 years prior work experience as a business analyst or business consultant, preferably at a banking institution, with hands-on experience in requirements elicitation, specification, verification, validation & management

• You do not shy away from complexity and have an entrepreneurial mindset with excellent stakeholder management skills

• You’re able to distinguish between what is important and what is less important.

• You have top notch communication skills and an antenna to detect and deal with organizational sensitivity

• Experienced in working with agile IT teams towards technology delivery

• Preferred: you have Trade Finance experience in either sales, product management, operations and/or IT

• Preferred: You are familiar with maintaining and developing Trade Finance electronic banking products and channels

• Preferred: Dutch speaking, but not a must

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas they have. We believe that teams composed of a combination of cultures, knowledge and experience will generate insights, perspectives and innovative solutions for our customers. Consequently, we offer the ability to work in a dynamic environment with great colleagues where there is room for growth within and outside your expertise, depending on your ambitions and drive.

• This position concerns a job for at least 36 hours.
• The gross monthly salary displayed above is based on a 36-hour work week, including vacation pay and benefit budget.

• This includes a Benefit Budget of 11% of your gross salary. You decide what to do with it: you can use it e.g. to buy extra days. If you don’t use the budget, it will be paid out on a monthly basis.

• 5 weeks of annual leave

• Per year you'll receive EUR 1.000 for personal development                     

• Work from home & internet allowances

• NS Business Card (also for private use, 24/7) or travel expense reimbursement

• Excellent pension scheme and insurance contributions

Please apply online, for information please reach out to the Talent Acquisition Manager or contact Hans Kok via hans.kok@nl.abnamro.com or Frans Westdorp via frans.westdorp@nl.abnamro.com

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

External recruitment agencies need to have a signed agreement with ABN AMRO BANK N.V., executed by a Talent Acquisition Specialist, when submitting a resume to a vacancy. No unsolicited services or offers, please.