Job Description:

For over 150 years, our dedication to being the Global Hausbank for our clients has been driven by our people – in around 60 countries and across more than 150 nationalities.

Their deep understanding, insights, expertise, and passion help our clients navigate an increasingly complex world – be it in our Corporate Bank, our Private Bank, our Investment Bank or our Asset Management division.

If you are motivated to take the initiative and collaborate with colleagues around the world; if you want to be part of a community where you can grow, both professionally and personally - join our team.

Together we can make a great impact for our clients home and abroad, securing their lasting success and financial security.

The Business Functional Analyst acts as a key bridge between business stakeholders, Core Banking platforms, architects, and engineering teams, ensuring that banking, regulatory, and digital transformation requirements are clearly defined, structured, and delivered in a scalable manner.
The role combines functional analysis capabilities with an understanding of data integration, APIs, microservices, and enterprise services.

As a Business Functional Analyst, you are responsible for:

• Analyse business, regulatory, and operational requirements, performing impact and gap analyses to design scalable end-to-end Core Banking solutions and workflows.

• Define and document Core Banking data structures, business processes, and reusable services supporting customer, account, payments, lending, and transactional data management.

• Design and specify APIs, integrations, and event-driven solutions, including REST/SOAP services, data flows, Kafka-based messaging, and integration standards.

• Take end-to-end ownership of initiatives, ensuring alignment and traceability from requirements and design through implementation, testing, and production support.

• Define acceptance criteria, support testing and UAT activities, validate delivered solutions, and contribute to service quality and continuous improvement.

• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Architects, Developers, QA, and business stakeholders, facilitating communication and ensuring business objectives are translated into effective technical solutions.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex business requirements into clear functional specifications and solution designs.

• Solid understanding of Core Banking processes, banking data models, and domains such as customer onboarding, accounts, payments, lending, securities, and transaction processing.

• Experience with API-led integrations, REST services, microservices architecture, event-driven solutions (Kafka/MQ), and enterprise integration patterns.

• Advanced technical proficiency in SQL, Oracle databases, API lifecycle management, and tools such as Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, Jira, Confluence, and UML/BPMN modelling tools.

• Proven experience working in Agile environments, managing initiatives end-to-end, and collaborating effectively within large-scale financial services organizations.

• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, combined with a proactive, autonomous, and ownership-driven approach; fluent in English and professionally proficient in Dutch or French.

• Emotionally and mentally balanced : We support you in dealing with life crises, maintaining stability through illness, and maintaining good mental health. Our corporate culture promotes dialogue and encourages sharing opinions and feedback (speak-up culture).

• Physically thriving : We support you managing your physical health by taking appropriate preventive measures and providing a workplace that helps you thrive. As an example, you can benefit from health care options and bike lease available through Flex Benefit Plan, standing desks, medical check-ups, training and keynotes on well-being, etc.

• Socially connected : We strongly believe in collaboration, inclusion and feeling connected to open up new perspectives and strengthen our self-confidence and well-being. We offer a flat organizational structure with close collaboration and open communication between teams; a dynamic, innovative work environment in which our employees and customers are central;

• Financially secure : We support you to meet personal financial goals during your active career and for the future. We offer you an attractive remuneration package (meal vouchers, hospitalization insurance, group insurance, flexible reward plan, ...), tailored to your experience, as well as the opportunity to develop yourself at every stage of your career. We also propose corporate benefits via our partner network (promotions on travel, interior, utilities, etc.).

Deutsche Bank was certified as a Top Employer 2026 in Belgium for the sixth year in a row.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.