WELCOME TO MARS CAPITAL
Mars Capital Finance Ireland DAC (“Mars Capital”) is part of Arrow Global Group Limited, which is one of Europe’s leading integrated asset managers with €112bn Assets Under Management (“AUM”) and 4,400 employees across five jurisdictions
Mars Capital was established in 2015 and is a Regulated Credit Servicing Firm, authorised by the by the Central Bank of Ireland and located in Dublin 2. Mars Capital has the capacity and regulatory authority to service loans secured against properties and has €8bn AUM, experiencing significant growth in recent years. We provide services that span the full lifecycle of a loan post origination, from drawdown through to loan administration, asset management, enforcement as well as syndication, securitisation, and standby servicing.
We value our relationship with our clients and believe that our deployment of dedicated, Dublin-based project and asset management teams give us a competitive advantage over other competitors who operate a shared services model across their portfolios. Placing the customer first in a simple and efficient manner in line with our regulatory obligation is our number one priority.
Our local strategic ambition is to provide value accretive services to institutional clients, while building better financial futures for our customers, clients, communities and colleagues.
Our Culture and Way of Working
We’re entrepreneurial, fast-paced and decisive, working together safely and supportively. We trust our colleagues to make the right decisions and are brave enough to acknowledge mistakes and to learn from them. Celebrating success, we reward those who help us to achieve exceptional long-term results.
We’re inclusive and encourage our colleagues to be themselves. Our culture supports the difference that makes each of us unique. We’re open and eager to embrace new ways of working and have a diverse community, enriched by our local identities that works collaboratively to build a unified and dynamic organisation.
We believe that a supported flexible working approach helps us to retain valued colleagues, enhance wellbeing, increase motivation and encourage a healthy work/life balance. If you’re interviewed, ask about the flexibility involved in this role.
Our Values
Our stakeholders expect us to act in an ethical and responsible way and this is at the heart of how we conduct our business. Our values support this philosophy, and we seek out and reward behaviours that will make us more sustainable, responsible and successful. Our values are- we succeed together; we do the right thing; we’re trusted and valued; and we’re brave and creative. You’ll hear more about these throughout the interview process.
Our STAR Awards provide a fantastic platform to send a special thank you to a colleague who may have gone above and beyond to help you and the business succeed, or someone who has been brave and creative with their own approach to how they work. Values orientated, our Recognition Scheme plays a pivotal role in aligning and celebrating our culture, and simply wouldn’t exist without colleague participation and input.
Our Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) Commitment
We’re committed to investing responsibly and supporting our local communities and charitable organisations. Every colleague is encouraged to take a paid day each calendar year to volunteer for our nominated charities. Internally we are very proud of our four colleague-led engagement groups, who run events/initiatives, that promote our culture and values which is a key part of the life blood of this business.
Job Description
Role Overview
We are seeking a Technical Reporting Business Analyst to join our Data & Analytics team. The successful candidate will partner with business and technology teams to deliver high-quality reporting, analytics and data solutions.
The role combines business analysis, data analysis and reporting expertise to define requirements, improve reporting processes and ensure data quality across enterprise platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage with business stakeholders to understand reporting, analytics and data requirements across the mortgage portfolio.
- Elicit, analyse, document and validate business and functional requirements for reporting and data initiatives.
- Collaborate with technology, data engineering and reporting teams to design and deliver scalable reporting solutions.
- Analyse large datasets to identify trends, opportunities and potential data quality issues.
- Develop detailed business requirements, process maps, user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Support the design and implementation of dashboards, management information and operational reporting.
- Ensure reporting outputs are accurate, consistent and aligned with business definitions and governance standards.
- Work with data owners to improve data quality, integrity and consistency across reporting assets.
- Facilitate workshops and meetings with business and technical stakeholders to agree priorities and solution approaches.
- Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including preparation of test scenarios, execution and defect management.
- Assist with change management activities, user documentation and knowledge transfer where required.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within reporting, analytics and business processes.
Qualifications
Skills and Experience
Essential
- 5 years' proven experience as a Business Analyst delivering reporting or data-focused projects.
- Experience working within financial services, banking or mortgage servicing environments.
- Strong understanding of reporting, management information (MI) and business intelligence principles.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience gathering and documenting business requirements.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience working with cross-functional business and technology teams.
- Proficiency in SQL for data analysis and validation.
- Experience with reporting and visualisation tools such as Power BI or similar.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Ability to manage multiple priorities within a fast-paced delivery environment.
Desirable
- Experience working with mortgage portfolios or loan servicing platforms.
- Knowledge of regulatory reporting within financial services.
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
- Understanding of data governance and data quality frameworks
Central Bank of Ireland (“CBI”) Fitness & Probity Regime
Some of our roles are Control Functions (“CF”) as defined by the Central Bank Reform Act 2010. If a vacancy is for a CF role, it will be indicated above. For CF roles, appointment will be conditional on Mars Capital being fully satisfied that the appointee meets the requirements as set out in the Fitness and Probity Standards 2018 issued by the Central Bank of Ireland. In the case of proposed appointees to Pre-Approval Control Functions, this includes prior approval by the CBI of such appointments.
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