Liquidity Business Analyst

Role: Liquidity Business Analyst
Location: Washington, D.C. (3days/week onsite - Local candidates required)
Duration: 6+ months contract

Job Description:
Seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support complex liquidity risk and regulatory reporting initiatives within capital markets or treasury environments. The role involves analyzing financial reporting requirements, interpreting regulatory logic, and translating business needs into structured reporting specifications.

The candidate will support the design, implementation, and validation of liquidity-related reports as part of an ongoing reporting transformation initiative.

Key Responsibilities

Analysis & Requirements Definition

• Analyze liquidity risk reporting requirements and clarify functional expectations with stakeholders.
• Confirm scope, calculation logic, data inputs, output structures, and reporting assumptions.
• Document business requirements aligned with regulatory and policy objectives.

Reporting Logic Review & Documentation

• Review and assess existing reporting methodologies and calculation approaches.
• Identify transformation rules, aggregation logic, and classification frameworks.
• Document functional reporting logic in a clear and structured manner.

Data Analysis & Mapping

• Identify and validate relevant source systems and data elements supporting report construction.
• Confirm key fields, data relationships, and transformation requirements.
• Ensure traceability from source data to final report output.

Testing & Reconciliation

• Support testing cycles and perform reconciliation between legacy and new reporting outputs.
• Investigate and explain reporting variances at appropriate levels of detail.
• Support stakeholder validation and sign-off processes.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with Risk, Finance, and IT stakeholders throughout the reporting lifecycle.
• Communicate reporting logic, findings, and validation results clearly.
• Support workshops, discussions, and review sessions as required.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical

• Strong understanding of liquidity risk and regulatory reporting in capital markets or treasury environments.
• Experience working with financial data and reporting transformation processes.
• Proficiency in SQL and data analysis tools.
• Familiarity with capital markets systems (e.g., Murex or similar platforms) preferred.
• Experience documenting financial reporting specifications.

Analytical

• Ability to analyze complex financial reporting logic.
• Strong reconciliation and variance analysis capabilities.
• Ability to trace reporting outputs back to underlying data sources.
• Experience identifying and resolving reporting discrepancies.

Communication

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to explain financial reporting concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong cross-functional coordination skills.

Project Management

• Ability to manage multiple reporting workstreams simultaneously.
• Experience coordinating across cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with structured project delivery methodologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Information Technology, or related field.
• Proven experience as a Business Analyst in capital markets or treasury environments.
• Strong understanding of liquidity risk and regulatory reporting concepts.
• Demonstrated experience supporting implementation or enhancement of complex financial reports.
• Proficiency in SQL, Excel, and reporting tools.

Deliverables

• Documented business requirements and functional reporting specifications.
• Validated reporting logic aligned with regulatory and stakeholder expectations.
• Reconciled reporting outputs with documented explanations of material variances.
• Ongoing status reporting and documentation updates.

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